Maarten Baas
The Empty Chair, 2025
Bronze sculpture
100 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm
Edition of 30 + 3 APs
Signed and numbered on a certificate
Ed 01-25: € 2.750
Ed 26-30: € 3.250
Part of the proceeds go to Amnesty International.
€2750,00
Maarten Baas designed The Empty Chair in 2011 for Amnesty International. The Empty Chair symbolizes Liu Xiaobo’s absent seat at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. The Chinese dissident was unable to accept his award in person as he was serving an 11-year prison sentence. Standing five meters tall, the original Empty Chair is not just an empty seat—it also serves as a symbolic ladder to the sky.
Exhibited at Museum Voorlinden, and Ron mandos Gallery, this poignant, yet inspiring work is now available in a limited-edition, exclusively with Art Fix. Made from bronze, this work captures the tension between fragility and strength; confinement and liberation.
