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Inversie III

475.00

A chair? No, two or wait one, but mirrored. No, not a mirror, rather a twist. Carefully drawn or, in other words, harmoniously twisted.

Breuer’s bondage

This well-known chair by Marcel Breuer, the S35 from the Thonet company, is shown from this point of view because it then shows its back. And in this case, the covering of the chair on the drawing is held together with real wire. A subtle and refined play with dimensions.

Flying dutchman

This small pencil drawing is indebted to a 1998 watercolor entitled Flying dutchmen. In large format and in color, these chair-like animals fly in a kind of universe. This one is isolated in its frame, but by mounting it freely without background it casts its shadow on the wall, making it seem to be moving.

Car chair

Commission

(Not for sale)

A very generous contribution to the crowdfunding ‘Make my book’ at Voor de Kunst that led to the publication of the book ‘Playfull perspectives‘ needed a generous response of course. This book is entirely devoted to my pencil drawings. If you are active in the transport world then you would prefer to see something of it in return. So there appeared as an attachment in the mail some photos of an oversized vehicle: a GMC Denali. It was said quite lightly ‘or something with a car seat’. Well, sometimes you shouldn’t make things too difficult and just take it as it comes. In this case I literally mixed a drawing of a car (of course the GMC Denali) with that of a chair. It goes without saying that this also had to be an oversized specimen. However, upholstered with a pattern clearly derived from North American Indians as seat cover. Depending on the position you choose in relation to the drawing, see the GMC, the chair or a mixture of both. Car seat and no car seat.

Comic strip

475.00

A frame is a frame, so the step to a comic is not that big in that respect. In the spirit of the great Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte and especially his famous work ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe‘, I play a semantic game in ‘the story’ with the concept of ‘chair’ and how you can portray it.

Telepathy

900.00

Telepathy is of course borrowed from the world of the comics, the comic language. Working with speech bubbles and thought bubbles. Such a form could also be a frame that you hang against the wall, what is drawn in it is then the idea. In my case I was quite busy with Rietveld at the time (2017), hence the Red-blue chair.

The great Escape

A diptych with a drawn chair back of a Cees Braakman and the other with only a framed sheet of paper. Fortunately, the list makes up for a lot. After all, it is there to protect the drawing. The question is whether that was successful in the left part?

Framed II

525.00

For many years now I have been playing with the relationship between drawing, mat, frame and wall from time to time.
Framing Rietveld is a good example and this one also plays with those elements. Frame, passe partout and of course the drawing itself, blend into one object. See also Framed III.

Look!

The attachment of the back of Cees Braakman’s chair SB02 on three points provides a whole series of possibilities without major alterations, see for example my drawings Pinocchio I, II en III or The great Escape. By zooming in on that, he/she gets something endearing. By tilting it slightly, a viewing direction is created: Look!

Fanzone

When my book ‘All in the family” was published, I made a gift in the form of a framed drawing annex luxury bookcase for a number of people who have helped me in any way. That inspired me to make more and this is (another) one of them.
See ‘Duet II‘, ‘Pin and hole‘, Ejection seat III and Painter’s seat III.
So this drawing includes that book.

Altar piece

1,750.00

Looking at the Jacobskapel in Venlo, I decided to limit myself to only pencil drawings for the exhibition there. I felt that it would fit better in this modest old space. But a chapel also has an altarpiece and I didn’t have one. What do I portray, within my frame of mind, in such a triptych?

Framed III

Framing Rietveld is a good example of this and this one also plays with that fact. What is still image and when is it frame? See also Framed II.

Two folding chairs

What folding can seat on …

Painter’s chair III

285.00

From the luxury bookcase annex pencil drawing series. My good old office chair, it gets a bit stiff, combined with a big block brush. See also from this series Ejection seat III, Bell seat and Fanzone.

Quartet II

335.00

This Quartet are four of the six chairs that used to be around the dining table in mu childhood at home. I had two brothers and a sister, so a quartet of children. The chairs were of course the same size and old, but we were not. I depicted this field of tension by depicting four chairs of the same size in a skewed frame, so that the chair that is more spacious in the frame appears smaller and the other one larger.

Escher encontra Ponti

375.00

About my first pencil drawing with a chair was ‘Escher in Oirschot‘. A sport that was drawn in front of the front leg, where it actually belonged behind it. A simple procedure with major consequences for me. That ‘Escher intervention’ on this Oirschot chair led to the title mentioned. Escher has become somewhat of a generic name for these kinds of perspective interventions. So when I do that with ‘Superleggera‘ by Gio Ponti they meet (‘encontra’ in Italian).