Friday 15 December 2023

Supra Vi plastoid (2023) sold!

Another work was sold yesterday in Paulus Noomen/Younik Gallery in Arnhem! It is a sculpture called ''Supra Vi Plastoid'' (2023). It will find a new home in Amsterdam. The Younik Gallery can be found at Klarestraat 24 in Arnhem, NL. +31-6-14141156


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 



Erexit Quadratum Plastoid sold!

This week Erexit Quadratum Plastoid - 2022/2023 (yellow version) was sold to an enthusiastic couple, living in Arnhem, The Netherlands. Yesterday I brought the work to their home and it becomes part of a very tastefully decorated house! I am delighted!



The result at the customers house. In consultation with the customer, a yellow and a red filter have been added to the light.









Wednesday 29 November 2023

New work arrived in the USA

 

This neat little guy arrived in the USA. It found a save haven in a house of a friend.

Wednesday 13 September 2023

SNEAK PREVIEW of the Snail Language Translator Device V2

 
 

 

 

Working on the Snail Language Translator Device (SLTD) version 2

I am working on a new version of the Snail Language Translator Device. The first version I made was during the Galichnik residency in Macedonia in 2015. This new sculpture/installation will be shown during the SOUNDSCAPE exhibition in Arnhem, Ecologische Tuin, Prins Hendrikstraat 49 - 51, September 16 and 17.




Wednesday 19 July 2023

Finding

A while ago I found a tree on a leaf

 


 

New Work: Erexit Quadratum Plastoid

New work! "Erexit Quadratum Plastoid", approx. 50 x 50 x 20 cm, built on a 45 year old Philips ceiling fixture with round fluorescent (replaced by an LED one). Material: thermoplastic (heat glue) + acrylic resin dispersion. Color difference in the photos is due to automatic white balance of my phone.






 
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Thursday 29 June 2023

LOOK BACK: 2018 ''PLASTOID CELL PROJECTOR''.

In 2018 I worked on an artwork with the title ''Plastoid Cell Projector (PCP)'', 40 x 40 x 40 cm. Its a sculpture/installation in which I can project slides made of transparent PLA, Polylactic acid, also known as poly(lactic acid) poly, lactic, acid or polylactide. It is a thermoplastic polyester with backbone formula (C
3
H
4
O
2
)
n
or [–C(CH
3
)HC(=O)O–]
n.

The slides for the PCP are made by hand with a 3D pencil in the classical 6 x 6 cm format. At the top left of the installation you see a stack of 6 x 6 transparencies.


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LOOK BACK: workspaces

Over the past 10 years I have worked in many different temporary studios. You sometimes end up in bizarre and remarkable places, such as here in a former bed factory in Deventer, The Netherlands. I could skate there and it was very cold in the winter. By the way, I advise everyone not to work in temporary spaces. You have to keep moving with your stuff over and over again, and that's kind of dramatic in my case. Moving is a disaster. Fortunately, I now have a permanent base.


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Tuesday 30 May 2023

Look Back: Snail Language Translator Device

The Snail Language translator Device was made during the Galichnik art residency in Macedonia.

During the 10 days of this residency I made several photo series and one sculpture, the above called device. 



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Wednesday 24 May 2023

LOOK BACK: 1985 (first spatial work)

LOOK BACK: 1985

Here is one of the first spatial works I made at the art academy in Arnhem (NL), back in 1985.

Curved metal and prepared cotton, about 3 meters high. For a photo I put it on the fountain within the Blue Waves (Blauwe Golven) art work in Arnhem, made by Peter Struycken in 1977.

While making this work I seriously injured my hand a week before. A wire of metal whipped as I bent and cut deep into the heel of my left hand, right through the glove. The scar is still there. I looked into deep white flesh, whereupon my legs went limp like chewing gum. I seem to have been knocked out for a moment, because when I opened my eyes I saw the workshop assistant busy with a bandage. A wet cloth lay on my forehead. He was also kind enough to drive me to the emergency room at the hospital. A whopper of a tetanus shot in my thigh and then I was out of 'mortal danger' again 😉.



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LOOK BACK: some sculptures from 2020

Here's a look back at my first smaller sculptures (approx. 30 - 40 cm), made 3 years ago from ultra-light PLA thermoplastic material. They are handmade with a 3D pen with a clear nod to the 3D printer. The material PLA used comes from the ''3D printer'' as a filament (wire), but I apply this purely analogously, without the intervention of a computer, building line on line. At the moment I am working on larger sculptures. The material I used in 2020 is (semi) transparent. They are sculptures that can be illuminated, i.e. light that falls on them plays through the material.







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An ancient Philips radio from 1948 with stunning ''hifi'' audio

Downteching / uptechning 


It is a personal pleasure to mix old appliances with modern technology. I hate the word obsolete when it comes to devices that once represented the best of technology at the time and are now discarded on the rubbish heap. Often there is more to find behind the label ''obsolete''.

I recently ran into a very nice tube radio from Philips, Dutch built from 1948, completely surrounded by a near perfect bakelite cabinet. By making a small technical adjustment, the radio now works on bluetooth and I can play my Spotify playlists via my phone through a 70-year-old speaker!

 



And how beautiful that sounds! Nice high and clean to very low. All this comes from just one speaker. It is a strange thought that the radio only now shows, in terms of audio dynamics, what it was already capable of 70 years ago, were it not for the fact that the sound carriers at the time (records, radio) when this radio was sold did not have the dynamics that it has now. It is a wealth to have this ancient sound source in the studio!







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Working on a new ''Turrim Plastoid'', a vertical sculpture made with thermoplastic material

Last week I began working on a ''Turrim Plastoid''. These are sculptures I make with PLA (Polylactic Acid), a substance coming from the 3D printing world. I use it with a 3D pen and build vertical sculptures with it, BY HAND!

 


 
 

 


And here the beginning moves:



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“Entropie Membraan 1” glas-sculptuur in zonlicht!

Een paar maanden geleden maakte ik een 1 mm dikke glassculptuur op een raam in Arnhem. Met direct zonlicht komt deze “Entropie Membraan 1” (200 x 45 cm - 2023) het best tot zijn recht! Hier een paar details.

 



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Monday 3 April 2023

Sjabloon dessins 1984 - 1987

 


Ik ben bezig met oude negatieven en kwam onverwacht mijn jaren 80 sjabloon-druksels tegen op textiel. Meestal waren dit T-shirts die ik op straat in Arnhem of Amsterdam verkocht, wat toen nog mocht! Maar ik bedrukte ook stoffen voor modezaak Molotov, die destijds in de Nieuwstad in Arnhem gevestigd was. Zie hieronder wat voorbeelden.















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Supra Vi plastoid (2023) sold!

Another work was sold yesterday in Paulus Noomen/Younik Gallery in Arnhem! It is a sculpture called ''Supra Vi Plastoid'' (2...