Linking abstraction to our social surroundings with the perspective of everyday observations. The concept of artwork is constantly challenged with his surprising choice and use of materials.
Now, the walls of the gallery welcome works that at first glance look like pure geometric abstractions, with their minimalist forms and bright colours alluding towards concretism. These seemingly universal (general) abstractions carry a direct connection to reality: each piece can be traced back to a specific everyday scene from a collection of photographs titled signs of Abstraction. This ongoing series comprises well over 500 000 photos of geometric patterns and forms present in our urban surroundings – stripes of two sun loungers resting on the grass; geometric design of a pick ‘n’ mix candy bag or the chequered shirt on a person waiting for their hamburger, harmoniously matching the black-and-white tiles of the counter. The works in this exhibition follow their real-life counterparts not only in colour, shape and pattern, but also in the placement on the wall with the slight tilt of the red-and-white sails of a miniature Viking ship, steep vanishing points of striped awnings or the X-shape of tapes across train station doors. The artworks are made of a composite material called Corian.