an ongoing project: changing and evergrowing installation made out of life-size paper elements creating an environmental sculpture.
image 1/2/3: ‘Urban Oasis III’ on display in former ‘Bagagehal’ KNSM_Loods6_ Amsterdam_NL_2024
image 4/5/6: ‘Urban Oasis II’ on display in a former waiting room at a platform of NS Railway Station Amsterdam RAI_NL_2024
image 7 : ‘Urban Oasis I’ on display in Kunsthal45_Den Helder_NL_2023
installation De Zandloper / The Hourglass
A man seems to have been caught in an hourglass.
The hourglass is associated with the passage of time and symbolizes the transience of life. In art, it is a frequently used object in still life paintings (vanitas).
life size installation
paper and paint
installation for a well cottage_PT
The wooded area enters a well cottage by using charcoal from the fireplace in the farmhouse.
The well cottage has a sacred atmosphere of itself with its oval shape.
Murganheira_Portugal
panoramic wall drawing, charcoal
measurements total drawing:
7.5 meters x 2.5 meters
installation for Arti et Amicitiae_Amsterdam_NL
The spectator is in an area with strange crops over which an image of aqueous substance is projected.
The whole sphere is marshy and dystopian in nature as in the two films that are also part of the installation.
What’s in store for us?
material: paper, mirrors, projection, film
measurements total installation:
6 meters x 7 meters
photo’s 1,2,3 : Maarten Nauw
installation for NDSM-Fuse_Amsterdam_NL
Vulnerability and monumentality go hand in hand in this installation.
The installation is made out of hand-painted paper, in which a half-round is split by a plain.
These forms might evoke associations with a hull in the water or a skate-site, both former functions of this space (shipyard and indoor skate-site).
The history of the NDSM site (Dutch Dock and Shipbuilding Company) goes back to 1894.
In 1946 three former shipyards merged together, creating the NDSM. In 1984 the yard closed her doors. This space was transformed into an indoor skate-site.
For this occasion it is an exhibition space with a rich history.
material: paper, paint, woodenframe
width : 7 meters
height : 4 meters
installation for the ‘Bagagehal’ of the former Amsterdam harbour area KNSM, consisting of a landscape of hand-painted paper and a stop motion animation film.
Film “In Transit”:
Two paper figures share their life dancing…until the inevitable happens.
In the film two paper models of Japanese Haniwa clay figures from the 6th century come alive. The original sculptures are called “dancing people” and are on display at the Tokyo National Museum. Haniwa (which means ‘circle of clay’) are cylindrical terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use. They are hollow sculptures that decorated the surface of the monumental mounded tombs built for the Japanese elite.
The film is embedded in a paper landscape similar to the one in the film. Being physically in the landscape, listening to the music through the headphone, ensures that you experience the intimacy that is in the film even better.
hand painted paper and stop motion animation film (stop motion animation film / 01:12 min. / loop)
installation in an empty retail space
Den Helder_NL
A thoughtful crowd is standing in a landscape with ladders that seem to reach into the sky.
Do they dare to climb the unknown?
At the invitation of Kunsthal 45 in Den Helder / commissioned by the Woningstichting Den Helder. This installation was made within the “Work to be done at the Store” project with the theme “expansion”.
material: paper, cardboard, paint
width : 8 meters
depth : 7 meters
height : 3 meters
installation in Fort Edam_NL
During the mobilization 1914-1918 in the Netherlands, “Boredom was our worst enemy”.
255 soldiers were mobilized in Fort Edam during World War I…getting bored, waiting for a possible military invasion by the enemy… that did not happen.
The reality in other countries that were involved in the war, stands in a sharp contrast to this.
255 houses of cards / stool / projection
installation for “Kunsttraject”
Staatsliedenbuurt_Amsterdam
“That” – Mr. Travis pointed – “is the jungle of sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years before President Keith.”
He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over streaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms.
“And that,” he said, “is the Path, laid by Time Safari for your use. (…)
It floats six inches above the earth (…)
Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past in any way.
Stay on the Path. Don’t go off it. I repeat. Don’t go off. For any reason!”
from: Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder” in R is for Rocket, (New York: Doubleday, 1952)
hand painted paper
installation for in Gallery Inkijk
subwaystation Waterlooplein in Amsterdam
As we wait, giant hands squirm around us.
Are they threatening us? Do they play us? Do they protect us?
What are we waiting for, by the way?
light, projection, paintings on paper and on fabric
