Mezas-Hummelink, Ans

Ans Mezas-Hummelink (Netherlands, 1953) was born in Veldhoven and has lived in Curaçao since 1981. Her artistic work consists of drawings, portraits and jewelry.

In February 2013, Ans participated in the group exhibition ‘Back to Nature’ at Landhuis Bloemhof with the artwork ‘Schoonheid in Vergankelijkheid’ (Beauty in Transience). Her contribution consisted of a detailed drawing, executed in colored pencil, of the delicate skull of the local white-tail deer. Its Latin name, Odocoileus virginianus curassavicus, is written underneath the image. The attention she gave to even the smallest part of the skull with uneven antlers enhances the vulnerability of the drawing, the technique, and its subject. With this small gem, Ans expresses herself in the beauty of local nature, the Curaçao mondi. On both sides of the subject, she added a column with handwritten texts on the essence of nature. For her, the actual work of art is not her drawing but rather the tiny skull itself. She refers to a statement by the British author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682): ‘Nature is the art of God’. 

In the exhibition Antepasado di Futuro. Visual Arts 1900-2010, organized in 2010 in The Curaçao Museum, Ans participated with the artwork ‘No More Hiding’ (2003). The sizeable colored pencil drawing shows the portrait of a woman behind a grid. Though the woman, glancing at the viewer over her shoulder, seems timid, the work exudes an undeniable sensuality. In the center, the grid has a large opening, permitting a look at her true colors. This piece, dating from 2003, is a critical work in her oeuvre. It stands for Ans’s decision to stop hiding and show her true personality to the world as a woman with feelings, all her ideas,  and emotions.

Jewelry by Ans Mezas-Hummelink was available at the Mon Art Gallery in The Renaissance Rif Fort, but the gallery closed. Her colored pencil drawings are sold by Gallery Alma Blou in Landhuis Habaai or at Landhuis Bloemhof.

2013: Text by Josée Thissen-Rojer.
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