Drawings
Portrait 5
The 5th portrait of a chair by the backrest. This one is from the first series of nine from 2011. After that it was ‘quiet’ in this area until in 2017 again nine new ones appeared. Followed by another twelve in 2018 and finally another three in 2019. I usually show them grouped or also as small accents between other pencil drawings. Portrait 14, 34 and 43.
Portrait 6
The 6th portrait of a chair by the backrest. This one is from the first series of nine from 2011. After that it was ‘quiet’ in this area until in 2017 again nine new ones appeared. Followed by another twelve in 2018 and finally another three in 2019. I usually show them grouped or also as small accents between other pencil drawings. Portrait 14, 34 and 43.
Portrait 7
The 7th portrait of a chair by the backrest. This one is from the first series of nine from 2011. After that it was ‘quiet’ in this area until in 2017 again nine new ones appeared. Followed by another twelve in 2018 and finally another three in 2019. I usually show them grouped or also as small accents between other pencil drawings. Portrait 14, 34 and 43.
Stoelgang
The chair shows its more flexible side here and approaches us energetically. Actually, with this first casually scribbled line drawing, I discover a new possibility. We know that a chair has a certain character; tough, elegant, robust, rustic, etc. But this also gives it its own will and enters the world.
Circle
This drawing was created more or less simultaneously with Fraternization. Here it is purely the oval shape in relation to the round frame. Be sure to read Chris Manders’ comment there, who also applies to this work.
Escher in Oirschot
Made in the first of my two graduation years at the Academy for Visual Education in Tilburg. In the kitchen of (my wife) Sofia’s student house there was such an Oirschot chair. Playing with that chair’s shape, this variant emerged, a trifle with major consequences. I didn’t know at the time that it was called that, but one of the teachers at the academy dropped that name. The combination between in this case a drawing and a title that offers a clue arose then. My sense of language and associative ability join the maker and loose is the bear.
Recently I made Escher in Oirschot II. Very different and yet also very related.