About Bart Lunenburg

Bart Lunenburg researched historical farm construction in the Netherlands. As an artist, he is very interested in wooden constructions and how they can be meaningfully applied in his sculptural practice. One element he discovered was the need for ‘openness’ in farm architecture. Cracks, holes, simply omitting a brick from a wall, permeable roof constructions for smoke and ghosts. That was how it should be, because the building man had to manifest his humility through these imperfections in order not to tempt the gods. Lunenburg writes: ‘For me, keeping it open, omitting it and not finishing it contains a sculptural thinking that I feel very much related to. It makes a building or a sculpture more accessible, shows the human hand and offers space for personal interpretation and completion.’ The slender, open wooden construction that he is showing at ARTZUID, Dwarsoverdwars, is a materialisation of this underlying thinking and knowledge.