wim vonk
[Static movement....moving downtime]
Continiously flowing to find the balance that will ultimately dismantle.
by Marja van Putten
[video: Lieve Prins]
Wim Wonk draws every day, day in day out, year in year out. Drawing for him is breathing and thinking. The culmination of this practice has resulted in a kind of freedom that is not frequently seen, this allows him to work within boundaries that were previously unacceptable... The language of drawing that Wim uses is incomparable to what the concept or meaning is.... The pure wonder of creating sculpture. Art and Anti-Art, Worthiness, Effort, Form and non-Form, Harmony and Paradox.
All of these thoughts of practice has allowed a certain amount of freedom for Wim to use whatever medium he sees fit to interpret his message. read more
The maskman and the organgrinder.
Wim Vonk and Klaas de Jonge in Zaal 100
Wim Vonk teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He received his own education also at the Rietveld, where he studied painting and drawing. He prolonged his studies at the Grafik Skolan Kungliga Akademien för de fria Konsterna in Stockholm. In his current work he assembles objects trouvés and tidbits, recreating these into installations. many of them able of motion and productive of sound. Over the past two years he has incorporated into his installations African sculptures and masks from the collection of Klaas de Jonge. De Jonge studied anthropology and sociology in Amsterdam and Paris, was a human rights activist in the 80’s against Apartheid in South Africa and produced global attention by being arrested and by his refuge into the Dutch Ambassey in Pretoria, where he stayed in exile for almost 2 years. read more
