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Inversely Proportional

A sculptural presentation and interpretation of an artist’s portfolio.

Inversely Proportional (installation)
Dimensions: 300 x 244 x 300 cm / Materials: mixed media / Year: 2004
(images above: exhibition view Gele Zaal, Ghent, BE) (fig.1)


When I graduated, I was one of several laureates to receive a well-known Belgian prize for art students. For the laureate exhibition I built a rough wooden volume. This volume was placed at a distance of half a meter from one of the corners of the exhibition space.

Inversely Proportional, installation details / 2004

My portfolio, a closed cardboard box and a cardboard tube (together containing a book, posters, a videotape and a multiple) was placed in the corner of the volume.
Between the sides of the volume and the walls of the exhibition space were wooden shelves on which I’d placed a large number of works that were reproduced in my portfolio.

 

ip01Inversely Proportional, content cardboard box (portfolio) / 2004


DETAILS

• Book:
(with a selection of images of artworks and sketches)

 

• Map (fig.2):
 (connecting images of artworks and sketches)


• Posters (fig.3): 
(drawings original size)


• Video:
(slideshow of works)

ipvideogal01

Inversely Proportional, film excerpt / 2004

 

a. Inversely Proportional (model), 2004

b. Inversely Proportional (collage), 2004

a. Thinktwig, 2002
“On a long tube, one centimeter thick, multiple shorter tubes are placed at the same angle and at equal distances from each other in seemingly random directions. Both the short and long tubes are hollow and open at the ends, allowing air to move freely through the instrument.”

a. Dothinking, 2003-2004
The cardboard tube that is part of the portfolio in the project Inversely Proportional contains copies of several drawings from the project Dothinking.

b. Dothinking drawing, 2003
Al posters in the cardboard tube are black and white copies.  Of the original drawings, however, some are very colorful. The surfaces covered with black charcoal or oil bar are interspersed with lively and fluorescent spots of gouache, enamel or oil pastel.