Sies Bleeker - converserende mensen (1968?) ZELDZAAM - Sold

Sies Bleeker (Heerenveen, December 12, 1941 – May 5, 2014) was a Dutch visual artist. He was the son of the resistance fighters Johan Bleeker and Fokje Dijkstra.
After secondary school in Heerenveen, Bleeker studied at the Minerva Academy in Groningen as a student of Evert Musch and Diederik Kraaypoel, among others. He did not complete the training and continued to develop as an autodidact, with Boele Bregman, among others, as partner. Bleeker went his own way in the search for abstraction. His work has been included in a number of national collections ('With paper on paper', 'Colour fields', 'Colour in more detail', 'The imagination is limited').
In the 1970s he started to work in an increasingly abstract and minimalistic way, starting from stripes and blocks, often in shades of blue, to end up more and more subtly in white. He exhibited this work in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (1971) and the Vishal in Haarlem (1978), among others.
Bleeker put himself in the spotlight of architects with his abstract work. From 1972 he started devoting himself to spatial work, which led to more than ten commissions through the Art and Business Foundation.
Between 1987 and 1993 Bleeker was a guest teacher at the Vredeman de Vries Academy. In the years 2004 to 2012 he was a consultant and curator for the municipality of Weststellingwerf and the province of Friesland.