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Duet II
Commission
(Not for sale)
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 goes for Pen and Gat and also for this one.
Pin and hole
Commission
(Not for sale)
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 goes for this one and also for Duet II.
All in the family
Hard-cover and full-color book has 96 pages with textual contributions by Chris Manders ( former director of the Academy for Visual Education Tilburg and former art critic of the Eindhovens Dagblad) and Jos Wilbrink (former director of N.B.K.S./adviser BKKC). A column from the Volkskrant (2006) of the late Martin Bril and a poem by Erica Rekers have also been included by , in addition to countless images. These are predominantly thematically arranged here and there interspersed with sources of inspiration.
The design was provided by Helma van Bergeijk van Held’r werk work from Breda.
Publisher: Van Spijk Art Books.
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)
Kitchen chair
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.
Circle time VI
A continuous tubular frame circle. Where normally at the place of a hind leg the tube bends in such a way that the imaginary hind legs are connected in this way, they now bend just the other way, making a connection with an adjacent chair. In this way they can no longer be constructive without each other. In the light of a circle discussion: what a connection! The goal of a good meeting.
Now for the reflections. Normally these are under the actual seats. A different reflection, that is also an enrichment for a meeting, isn’t it?
Shadowdancing III
An even more exuberant variation on the subject of shadow dancing or Shadowdancing. Where I dropped ‘dressed to impress’ in the description of Shadowdancing II, this is certainly more appropriate here. All kinds of greats from the art and design world come together at this party.
A colorful collection of chairs all busy with his/her own shade. A memory with a wink to my own past as an outgoing student: everyone dancing in their own bubble.
Bath
A somewhat atypical diptych where the boundary of what is a list and what it is for is scanned.
This work is only part of a series in which I explore the phenomenon of reflection in a fairly dry way. Like in Mirror and Mirror II and reflection.
Family portrait II
Commission
(Not for sale)
Through a kind of visual taste exploration, I questioned the customer about his family members and himself and thus finally chose chairs from the birth years of the five family members that match more or less with their character in terms of appearance. The table comes from the interior of this Breda family.
Seance
A circle of chairs of various colors. But also all copies to which I have devoted a work before, Escher in Oirschot for example, or that they played a role in a work, see The last supper II or III. Surrealist René Magritte’s Legend of the Centuries is strangely enough still steady on the ground, but following the circle the others become increasingly enlightened.
Een cirkel van stoelen van diverse pluimage. Maar ook allemaal exemplaren waar ik al eens eerder een werk aan heb gewijd, Escher in Oirschot bijvoorbeeld, dan wel dat ze een rol speelden in een werk zie bijvoorbeeld Het laatste Avondmaal II of III. Legend of the Centuries van surrealist René Magritte staat gek genoeg nog steady op de grond maar de kring volgend raken de anderen steeds verlichter.