Artwork of the month - video (45 sec)
Wall Drawing: Covid 1.0
Year | 2020 |
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Size | 303 cm x 645 cm |
Materials | charcoal |
Details | In-situ work as part of the artists’ solo exhibition at lxhxb, Eindhoven, NL |
Edition | 1/1 |
For Sale | Yes, contact our gallery Fred&Ferry (Antwerp, BE) |
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Since 2015 Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert have been documenting their artistic practice and their realities through the creation of digital drawings. Each drawing centres on one particular action, whether it be a simple trip to the hardware store or a unique moment from a ritual performance.
Until recently, the drawings had been made using a word processing software. The unconventional use of such software to make drawings gave rise to a specific formal language: simple tables could become doors, windows or suitcases and arrows or triangles could form the basis for abstract figures.
In this way, F&R R&F developed a signature style characterised by simplicity. Each shape represents an attempt to create as universal a signifier as possible. Anthropomorphic figures can stand in as self portraits of the artists or as symbols for any human being. In this way, each drawing attempts to build a bridge between the artists’ practice and the reality of the viewer(s).
The digital drawings form the basis for new, physical works, such as a series of blueprints, a series of pictographic clay tablets or, most recently, a number of in-situ wall drawings.
During the recent lockdown, R&F F&R decided to focus their drawings on the unique situation surrounding COVID-19. The digital works document hospital scenes, news reports and practices such as social distancing and handwashing. Artist and curator Guus Van der Velden of Ixhxb Gallery in Eindhoven invited the artists to create an entirely new interpretation of these drawings in the form of a wall-filling charcoal drawing.
The mural is part of the F&R R&F solo exhibition ‘Narratives’, which runs from 12 July to 22 August 2020 at lxhxb, Eindhoven. Visit for free from Thursday to Saturday, 1pm to 6pm, or by appointment. Geldropsteweg 84A, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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ARTWORKS
Theater
Table Dialogues | 2021 - ongoing | |
Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning? | 2017 - 2021 | |
To Break - The window of opportunity | 2014 - 2015 |
Performances, Actions, Rituals
(Solo) Exhibitions
Magic Mirrors - Ceramic Shrine
Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerp (BE) |
2021 | |
Breadcrumbs
Be-Part, Waregem (BE) |
2020 | |
Dr. Valcke
Water Clinic, Kortrijk (BE) |
2015 |
Drawings
Other sculptures & installations
Other video works & projects
PONG
video installation |
2014 | |
Faces
video installation |
2014 | |
The Gilded Child
video |
2010 | |
A Documentary
video |
2010 |
Other prints, books & editions
Clay tablets
Hugging | 2020 | |
Helping Hand | 2020 | |
Lunch | 2020 | |
To Break (theatre scene) | 2020 | |
Gemini Ritual | 2019 | |
Mask Totem Pole | 2019 | |
Ritual Fire | 2019 |
Shrines
Archetypes
Sculpture |
2019 - 2021 | |
Janus Self-Portrait
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Magic Mirrors - Shrine
Sculpture |
2021 | |
Shredding Sorrows
Sculpture |
2019 | |
To Break
Sculpture |
2021 |
Go away sorrow of the world
Suitcase projects
Weakness is provocative
Surveillance
Ceramics & Wood |
2020 | |
Guns
installation (2014) / artist publication (2015) |
2014 - 2015 | |