ABOUT ME
The Dutch artist Léon van Kuijk studied graphic, audiovisual, and monumental design/arts at the renowned Rietveld Academy. This multimedia background significantly influences the extensive body of work comprising drawings,paintings, and spatial objects he has created since. From 2008, he has also utilized digital graphics and 3D printing technology, and more recently, AI as a tool.
His work is characterized by a clear, colorful, and highly personal visual language. It merges painting techniques with graphic elements reminiscent of comic strip culture and pop art. Recurring themes include space, movement, utilitarian architecture, science, tools, measuring instruments, extraordinary vehicles, aircraft, and more.
Van Kuijk is fascinated by the relationship between humans and the countless artificial objects they construct and accumulate, as if they were a new form of nature. This pursuit constantly reveals intriguing – and perhaps inevitable – paradoxes. From this simultaneous fantastic ability and inability of the new creator, the surreal world emerges in which we coexist, living and dying, and with which we seem to have a problematic relationship.
