On the wide, windy beaches of the Netherlands, strange skeletal creatures roam. They have no muscles, no motors, and no brains. They’re made of yellow plastic tubing, and they walk. These are the Strandbeesten (“beach beasts”), the creations of Dutch artist and engineer Theo Jansen. A physicist by training, Jansen began building them in 1990 … Read more
Richard Paul Lohse (1902–1988) was a Zurich painter and graphic designer, and a central figure of constructivist-concrete art. From 1943 he concentrated on orthogonally structured image fields, building systems with an ever wider colour spectrum, which for him expressed a modern, non-hierarchical society. His rigorous grids of colour modules are some of the most disciplined … Read more
Born in 1964, Rinke Nijburg is a Dutch artist known for large-scale works in charcoal, pastel, ink and pen — drawings that feel closer to mythology than to observation. Pieces like Dracunculus vulgaris and Lagoon stretch well over a metre across, dense with the plant, animal and cosmic imagery that runs through his practice. Nijburg … Read more
A Life Spent Inside One Square There’s a certain kind of artist who doesn’t chase trends — they pick a single question and spend a lifetime turning it over in their hands. Günter Tuzina is exactly that kind of artist. For roughly fifty years, he has been asking the same deceptively simple question: what happens … Read more
