Paintings
Musical chairs
A circle of chairs remains intriguing to me. Expectation, rhythm, symmetry, time, family, conversation or meeting, just a few concepts that arise in this context. And musical chairs of course, a round dance with one seat less than dancers. As usual, I don’t need the dancers.
Also take a look at ‘Collier‘, which is an anamorfosis of this work. There are also numerous circular shapes on this site, such as Cycle from 1997, Tijdkring IV from 2008 or Tijdkring VII from 2016.
Seats for black holes
Using chairs as letters to convey a message was a great find for me. Especially if you can then put the title of the work in a different light. For example, ‘Z onder Titel (‘Z’ under title in English) is certainly a playful commentary on the many works of the same name in countless museums (‘untitled’ in English). And Seats for Black Holes is such an offering for phenomena in the universe. The chairs annex letters are the celestial bodies that fill the firmament and offer a seat to a black hole (The words/chairs in the image are in dutch: Zetels voor zwarte gaten).
Z onder titel
What you see is what you get or Z (onder=) under (titel=) title. From about 1996 upto 2000 I made a series of works where I used the chair as a letter. Such as Alphabet, Furniture Show and most impressive Seats for black holes.