Rinus Van de Velde

Drawing is a daily routine for Belgian artist RINUS VAN DE VELDE, who uses an extensive personal archive of photographic clippings from old issues of National Geographic, film stills and internet sources to recreate the images in dark charcoal on white paper. The drawings couple these appropriated images with text from different genres (brief captions, dialogues or commentary), forming new meaning through context.

By arranging drawings in nonlinear installations, linked by ambiguous and often incomplete textual references, it becomes possible to weave a new narrative, that suggests a whole world in which a number of recurrent characters live and move. It can be nothing but a fantasy, a fiction, and so beyond its borders lies the great nothingness of the “real” world. - by KOELN SELS

RINUS VAN DE VELDE is a postgraduate student at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium.