Paintings
Perpetuüm mobile III
A series of linked chairs are depicted from the (round) edge in such a way that the armrests form a kind of inwardly turned gear wheel. The opening offers a view of a kind of galaxy that intensifies the cyclical movement. No beginning, no end, just time.
Pas de Deux X (Balancing Berkovich)
One of the most recent in a long series of ‘dance duets’ between two chairs of the same type. All works in this series, mostly watercolors but also some pencil drawings, are characterized by the fact that two chairs of the same type meet at some point and there merge entirely in the spirit of an intense pas de deux. In this case it is a chair designed by Elmar Berkovich.
Pas de Deux XI
The most recent in a long series of ‘dance duets’ between two chairs of the same type. All works in this series, mostly watercolors but also some pencil drawings, are characterized by the fact that two chairs of the same type meet at some point and there merge entirely in the spirit of an intense pas de deux. In this case it is a chair designed by the Dane Arne Jacobsen.
Babel try out
Chairs II
Commission
(Not for sale)
Sort of a separate diptych. A well-attuned duo in pediatric physiotherapy and speech therapy is the addressee of these chairs. This Chair II and the other Chair I, their specialty can be recognized by the placed objects. Knowledge and resources in the drawers and connected via the cord to a unity that is beautifully balanced.
Chairs
Sort of a separate diptych. A well-attuned duo in pediatric physiotherapy and speech therapy is the addressee of these chairs. One I and the other II, their specialty can be recognized by the placed objects. Knowledge and resources in the drawers and with the cord connected to a unity that is beautifully balanced.
Quartet II
Patterns of the crowd. Seats in an empty stadium or theater gently sloping for optimal visibility. The choice for this extremely horizontal format has everything to do with this and further increases the tension between the quartet and the audience in the hall. The chosen color scheme and the contrast in it underline this.
For all the chairs (except for the quartet) three molds are used, left, frontal and right.
Rietveld III
Gerrit Rietveld’s other equally famous chair, the Zigzag chair, also turned out to fit well in an isometric grid. So after Rietveld, completely full of zigzag-chairs, now these completely full of redblue chairs.
Stranded
After some thinking, such a classic folding beach chair turned out to be very easy to process in a kind of continuous pattern. The ultimate sea/beach colors still remain navy blue and white placed on the sand. Where else? Of course a drop shadow because of the sunny weather.
The drawing immediately reminded me of the beach in Rimini in Italy where most of the beach was claimed by hotels and where their territory was marked by rows of carefully arranged beach chairs. A kind of traffic jam for the sea, Stranded from there.
Sit at Itten
From square to (color)circle. My past at the academy, in which we learned to mix colors quite thoroughly on the basis of Johannes Itten‘s color theory, resulting in a self-designed color range, played up when I was working on this basic drawing. This spatial and at the same time flat shape asked for a colorful interpretation: Sitting at Itten.
Time circle VII
In astronomy time circle is a time space in which a number of phenomena repeat themselves.
A circle of tubular frame chairs on a well-polished tiled floor. On? Just above! The intimate connection of this séance leads to elevation. Isn’t that what we would want in every circle discussion?
Chairman
Chairman plays with the pixel, although in this case the pixel is also a chair seat. When connected to a large area, these pixels can form any image depending on the arrangement of the colors. In this case it is a portrait of the chair man (the undersigned) or Chairman. The president of this chair world.
Stamhouder (Tribe holder)
The first work where I, more or less born out of necessity, worked with cutting out the residual shapes was Rietveld, dedicated to how could it be otherwise Gerrit Rietveld’s Zigzag-chair. An at least as revolutionary invention by another Dutchman certainly deserves a podium in my oeuvre: the cantilever-chair. That honor belongs to Mart Stam.
(The dutch word for tribe is ‘stam’, by chance the surname of the tribeholder of all the cantilever chairs)
Tumult
Three shapes, namely a backrest of a low (top of the picture), high (bottom of the picture) and frontal (middle part) position are the basis of this work. All three have also been used in reverse mirroring the whole. The brain tends to tilt the shapes so that they respond to the ‘normal’ laws of the central perspective. That produces a thrilling dynamic surface. The chosen colors reinforce this even more. See also ‘Converge‘
Babel II
What would it look like when you look up along the wall of chairs stacked up to an enormous tower. No two chairs are the same. The harmony that towers that I had previously drawn had at least in appearance (Tower of Babel, Tower of Babel II), has already been exchanged for an enormous variety in Tower of Babel III . This is kind of a detail from that looking up from a lower point of view of the structure.
Flood
Lost in a forest of trunks. Trunks? They turn out to be the vertical supporting parts of a backrest. There you stand, walk or swim in this somewhat post-apocalyptic environment. Watch ‘the making of flood‘ on youtube.