Stijn Cole

– Casa Wabi 2017

Community Project
Log-Piece
Biography
Images

Community Project

Concurso de banderas – Se realizó la convocatoria en nueve escuelas de la zona
Children from José Vanconcelos de Bajos de Chila Elementary School, Emiliano Zapata Elementary School El Venado Secundary School, Miguel Hidalgo Elementary School, Agua Zarca Highcchool, Jaime Nuno, Progreso, Lizando Calderón and Lázaro Cárdenas de Rio Grande.
A call for a banner drawing contest between the different primary and secondary schools of the Costa Chica of Oaxaca was launched. More than 300 drawings were collected in just three days.
In the end, two winners were selected and they were sent to raise them in the schools of the winning students, together with
a flag created by the resident. In the end each winner was left with the flag he created and the flags created by the resident were kept in shelter of the Foundation. Winners were selected by the resident.

Log-Piece

Sin Título (2017) Inyección de tinta sobre papel (doble saturación) 60 x 40 cm
Sin Título (2017) Inyección de tinta sobre papel (doble saturación) 60 x 40 cm

Sin Título (2017)
Inyección de tinta sobre papel (doble saturación)
60 x 40 cm
Sin Título (2017)
Inyección de tinta sobre papel (doble saturación)
60 x 40 cm

Belgium

Ghent, Belgium

The oeuvre of Stijn Cole has been accumulating since 2002. The relation between the object and its surroundings is central. Light, not the medium, is crucial here, since the way we experience colour and form is to a great extent determined by the intensity of the light they are subjected to.
Cole is constantly bringing this knowledge into play when creating his installations and other works. He always reduces his images to their purest essence. His choice of media is eclectic: there’s video as well as sculpture, painting and mixed media, photography and graphics and besides abstract work, he also creates figurative art. And yet his oeuvre demonstrates great coherence. In Cole’s universe, themes like time and landscape painting are endowed with a renewed beauty that translates into a contemporary version of impressionism. Each new series of Cole’s works is connected with a specific period, walk or journey, which gives it an almost documentary quality. Cole describes his contribution as modest, just a filter he puts on reality. But with the utmost precision and subtlety, he challenges the viewer to take on an active role. In this manipulative game, he entices the viewer to engage in experience of intensity, space and shape that will time and time again prove to be surprising. His newest works increasingly take the shape of installations, landscapes created by Cole that the audience is invited to wander around in.
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November – December 2017