My work is like journey through the sediments of time. When I’m working there are moments when I sink in. Then there is a creation without the intention of creating: A dialogue with the material that I use. A penetration of fragments of thoughts, feelings or sensations into the materiality and the form of the objects. Intuitive and impulsive. There is no willful intent or artificial will. The uncontrollable and the spontaneous are the tools I use to create works where it is the materials physical properties that call forth the living and authentic in the work.
As a painter and sculptor, I would like to draw attention to the tension between hidden stratum and deeper traces, the interaction between objects, the effects of light and shadow, the abstraction on the essential – everything that we do not immediately perceive at first glance, but which is there nonetheless, playing its role in the impact of a work of art. Like a sensual bridge between the real and the imaginary, between material and immaterial. What you see is what you don't see.
Art is a language without words. That's why I don't give my works any titles that unnecessarily charge them. There is no story I need to tell. In the end, they are self-sufficient objects that evoke a noticeable resonance, a sensual perception, the desire to touch – or they don't.
JP Rieken
As a painter and sculptor, I would like to draw attention to the tension between hidden stratum and deeper traces, the interaction between objects, the effects of light and shadow, the abstraction on the essential – everything that we do not immediately perceive at first glance, but which is there nonetheless, playing its role in the impact of a work of art. Like a sensual bridge between the real and the imaginary, between material and immaterial. What you see is what you don't see.
Art is a language without words. That's why I don't give my works any titles that unnecessarily charge them. There is no story I need to tell. In the end, they are self-sufficient objects that evoke a noticeable resonance, a sensual perception, the desire to touch – or they don't.
JP Rieken
