‘I want to make sculptures, not design. A good idea can be a starting point, but the creative process often leads me to new ideas and forms. In this way I always create a sculpture that I could not have imagined in advance.’
About Ruud Kuijer
Ruud Kuijer works on his inventive compositions in a factory hall in Utrecht. His masterpiece is his Waterworks project. A series of seven sculptures on a long strip of bank along the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal in an industrial area in Utrecht. Kuijer likes contrasts and works alternately in concrete and iron. They are opposing materials and methods. Iron is a material that offers a lot of resistance, physically and mentally. Iron has a tradition in sculpture since the beginning of the 20th century that the artist likes to reflect on, searching for new possibilities. This is also the case with the two sculptures Untitled and Spark XIII that he is showing at ARTZUID. The sculptures consist of sawn-off pieces of semi-finished product: plate, tube, pipe, h-beam, angle line, organised around and by a central axis that is formed by an openwork -, and a cylinder divided into three equal parts. The curvature invites you to walk around the sculptures. The axis remains constant, the shapes contrast with it and provide movement and an experience of three-dimensionality. They are clearly structured and seem completely readable. Kuijer’s sculptures are logical and enigmatic at the same time.
Art at ARTZUID
