About Klaas Gubbels

Gubbels’ work is an ongoing dialogue with the everyday. ‘I want the boring to become something’, he says. What starts as a simple object, such as a table or a coffee pot, changes into something essential under his hands. His compositions are clear and direct, with a focus on form and surface division. No unnecessary details, no frills. His objects become characters, with their own attitude and character. They bend towards each other, stand unyieldingly next to each other or seem to be lost in loneliness. Gubbels remains true to his forms, his rhythm, his language. Time and again a table, a chair, a coffee pot. Always the same, and yet always different. In that repetition there is no limitation, but an endless space; a place where the smallest shift tells a new story. His oeuvre finds its strength in simplicity. At ARTZUID Gubbels is showing Zijwaarts. A typical Gubbels, but with a twist. Do you see the coffee potor did you first think of a human figure?