Synopsis
Elaborate wooden artworks by Ron van der Ende depicting cars, spacecraft, tree stumps and other artefacts are illustrated in this book. The wooden artworks of the Dutch sculptor come to life in the form of monumental constructed bas-reliefs, almost flat sculptures, which create striking spatial effects. In 2014, van der Ende made his one hundredth bas-relief, this artwork triggered the conception of this book. For over 25 years, van der Ende has been building up an impressive oeuvre, marked by the consistency and concentration of its content, and by the skill and perseverance of its maker. All the artworks feel contemporary yet their surface is weathered by time and light, worn by human touch. The artist collects discarded doors, furniture and panelling that are deconstructed, sawn into thin boards and become part of his immense colour archive.
The Factory Set is richly illustrated to showcase the artist’s career portfolio, detailing his trademark wall-mounted bas-reliefs constructed from found wood and salvaged materials. An in-depth essay written by the artist is included, along with a number of texts by Frits van Dongen, Jannet de Goede, Hester Keijser and Braden King.
The book appeared in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name in the Kunsthal, Rotterdam.
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RON VAN DER ENDE forges a captivating marriage between disparate art-making approaches to material reality.
One, found-object assemblage, trades on the power of association and the evocative patinas of wear and use. The other, illusionism, depends on finely-tuned, seductive deceit. The Rotterdam, the Netherlands-based artist builds his wall-mounted works from salvaged wood, stripping the veneers and using them as a palette of textures and tones. He creates low reliefs (six inches deep) that are painterly and sculptural, reading as objects of far greater depth and mass. This is [...] ground-level craft, a gripping work of visual fiction composed with tender reverence, by hand. - - - Leah Ollman 'High craft in the low reliefs' Los Angeles Times July 2013
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RON VAN DER ENDE forges a captivating marriage between disparate art-making approaches to material reality.
One, found-object assemblage, trades on the power of association and the evocative patinas of wear and use. The other, illusionism, depends on finely-tuned, seductive deceit. The Rotterdam, the Netherlands-based artist builds his wall-mounted works from salvaged wood, stripping the veneers and using them as a palette of textures and tones. He creates low reliefs (six inches deep) that are painterly and sculptural, reading as objects of far greater depth and mass. This is [?] ground-level craft, a gripping work of visual fiction composed with tender reverence, by hand. - - - Leah Ollman ?High craft in the low reliefs Los Angeles Times July 2013
One, found-object assemblage, trades on the power of association and the evocative patinas of wear and use. The other, illusionism, depends on finely-tuned, seductive deceit. The Rotterdam, the Netherlands-based artist builds his wall-mounted works from salvaged wood, stripping the veneers and using them as a palette of textures and tones. He creates low reliefs (six inches deep) that are painterly and sculptural, reading as objects of far greater depth and mass. This is [?] ground-level craft, a gripping work of visual fiction composed with tender reverence, by hand. - - - Leah Ollman ?High craft in the low reliefs Los Angeles Times July 2013
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