Drawings
School
If chairs can walk, run and rest, they might also be able to think, right? In the pencil drawings Comic, I am not a chair and Telepathy, the comic language clearly finds its entrance into my work. In this work, which is part of an unspecified series, we look at the thoughts of Mart Stam‘s S31. Is he thinking about his own school days?
On my mind II
If chairs can walk, run and rest, they might also be able to think, right? In the pencil drawings Comic, I am not a chair and Telepathy, the comic language clearly finds its entrance into my work. In this work, which is part of an unspecified series, we look at the fantasies of a graceful armchair by Thonet, whose thoughts turn to Rietveld’s sturdy crate chair.
Arachnofobia
If chairs can walk, run and rest, they might also be able to think, right? In the pencil drawings Comic, I am not a chair and Telepathy, the comic language clearly finds its entrance into my work. In this work, which is part of an unspecified series, we look at the fantasies of my ‘primal chair’.
Unlock
A paradox has been created by providing Cees Braakman’s SB02 with ten instead of three fixings for the backrest, and placing it behind bars. This creates a kind of Gordian knot or ouroboros-like impossibility.
See also the drawing Update from 2019. This creates a login look similar to a telephone.
Leerdammer chair II
Leerdam because of the famous Dutch cheese with holes, of course. The work goes back to the drawing ‘Leerdammer chair’ I made in the year 2000.
Where in that drawing only the drawn chair showed holes, in this one it didn’t stop there.
Pair
Two designs by Cees Braakman for Pastoe (a renowned Dutch furniture manufacturer) are here together as a pair from a family album.
Escher in Oirschot II
One of the first drawings that I made during my graduation phase at the Academy for Visual Education in Tilburg and that passed the selection was Escher in Oirschot. Escher because of the spatial joke and Oirschot because of the origin of the drawn chair. This one stood in the kitchen of the student house where my wife Sofia lived at that time. This is a variation where the Escher-like twist is in the play with frame, environment and drawing.
My Style
If chairs can walk, run and rest, they might also be able to think, right? In the pencil drawings Comic, I am not a chair and Telepathy, the comic language clearly finds its entrance into my work. In this work, which is part of an unspecified series, we look at the fantasies of Gerrit Rietveld‘s red-blue chair, who reflects on Theo van Doesburg‘s chair.
Dimensions II
The Building Plate that I drew in 2003 is a precursor. In this case, there is already some ‘building activity’ whereby the drawing takes place in two dimensions (but actually still in one).
Inversie II
Is it the shadow of the seat transformed into seat? A new object with clear seat characteristics? This object can in this way, in two dimensions exist, so much is certain that proves this drawing. But transfering it to the third dimension by actually making it?
Weave
Two drawings of a ladderback-chair by Charles-Rennie McIntosh are woven into one, creating his own problems that do contribute to the image. The drawing is related to a drawing I made earlier in 2019 Intertwined past.
Book ‘Playfull’ with original drawing
The book Playfull perspectives contains an empty page and that is not because I ran out of drawings or that it is a ‘design thing’. The page is reserved to make a drawing. It was one of my more successful actions in my crowdfunding campaign. And as every disadvantage has its advantage, I can also make a drawing for you on this page! It goes without saying that the book will then be signed. A unique gift, especially for art and book lovers and/or fans of my works.