Miffy by Richard 15 cm

Artist: Richard Hutten (1967).

Miffy by Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten has worked with Dick Bruna’s work before, so he is not someone who only knows it from the reading books of his children. In 2004, he opened an exhibition of his work in the Suntory Museum in Osaka, Japan. Just as he was then, he was now struggling with the assignment to make a three-dimensional translation of Dick Bruna’s work. Eventually he designed his own Miffy sculpture for the Art Parade: Miffy by Richard Hutten. ‘Miffy doesn’t have a side or a back-side, only a front. The statue I made of Miffy only has a front too. It doesn’t matter from which angle you look at the object, it’s always frontally. I achieved this effect by making the statue round and giving it multiple eyes and mouths. Any way you look at this, you only see the front. A three-dimensional statue of Miffy the way Dick Bruna once created her: two-dimensional.’