A while ago I found a tree on a leaf
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.
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
3H
4O
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.
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.
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.
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 😉.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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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Due to the end of all my storage places after the Covid period lots of works and material came back to the studio. So, during large parts of 2022 and beginning 2023 I had/have to renovate and reorganize my studio space. In order to meet my broad interest in techniques and media I decided to create many different ''working islands'' within the studio. Photography, video, animation, sculpture, painting, print and music can be performed in more or less designated rooms now, which is a real treat! It has become a personal eldorado I can say.
Work still has to be done on a little audio-isolated sound studio, in which I will be able to create audio pieces without hindering my neighbors.
Last but not least a second hand solar system will be placed on the roof of the studio to make it more or less energy neutral on the electricity side.
Will keep you informed in the months to come!
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In March 2022 was ik mede-organisator van de Artists for Ukraine veiling in Arnhem. Tientallen kunstenaars uit Arnhem en omgeving stelden werken ter beschikking. Op meerdere plekken in Nederland vonden destijds van dit soort veilingen plaats. Naast het organisatiewerk was ik webmaster van deze actie.
De zeer goed bezochte veiling vond plaats op 26 maart en bracht een mooie bedrag op. Maar liefst 28.712,00 euro werd opgehaald en ter beschikking gesteld voor humanitaire hulp aan Oekraïne!
Participating artists in this weekend show: Frank Mabelis, Studio Crin, Judith Stolker, Ruben Heerings, Suski Store, Paulus Noomen, Felix ...
