Willy de Sauter | The essence of reality

Willy de Sauter | The essence of reality | contemporary art | Warmenhoven & Venderbos

Willy de Sauter | The essence of reality | contemporary art | Warmenhoven & Venderbos

Willy de Sauter | The essence of reality | contemporary art | Warmenhoven & Venderbos

Belgian artist Willy de Sauter creates fascinating work in the artistic tradition to which abstract art is the carrier and tool to represent the essence of reality. His artistic vocabulary can be characterized as a thorough abstraction of shapes and structures which are found back in nature, culture and architecture. He closely observes and analyses architecture or selected photographs and uses the results of these studies as a starting point to translate and transposition the existing form or structure into an abstract representation. In Willy de Sauter his oeuvre, places are reduced to non-places and associations with philosophy, visual art and architecture are fused into one general and open focus on culture.
At this moment Willy de Sauter has a solo exhibition at Phoebus gallery in Rotterdam , the Netherlands. The show will run until march 4, 2012.

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Aristotle on art, conceptual layers and inner value

Quote | Aristotle on art, conceptual layers and inner value | Warmenhoven & Venderbos Blog

Quote about art from Greek philosopher Aristotle which can especially be considered as an early statement about conceptual art and design as it addresses directly the core principle of a conceptual design approach and the resulting physical product and its inner value, meaning and significance.

The Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoölogy. Together with Plato and Plato’s teacher Socrates, Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.

Tokujin Yoshioka | Snow

Warmenhoven & Venderbos designer fashion blog | Tokujin Yoshioka | Snow

Warmenhoven & Venderbos designer fashion blog | Tokujin Yoshioka | Snow

Warmenhoven & Venderbos designer fashion blog | Tokujin Yoshioka | Snow

Tokujin Yoshioka is a Japanese designer and artist who has worked under Shiro Kuramata and Issey Miyake and established his ow studio, Tokujin Yoshioka Design in 2000.
He created the installation called The Snow as part of the exhibition Sensing Nature at the Tokyo Mori Art museum last year. This spatial design made from artificial materials gives the viewer the sensation of experiencing light, snow, storms and other phenomena. Tokujin Yoshioka explores the potential future of design and how it will incorporate natural principles, effects and by integrating natural science technologies. His installation is similar to looking at or walking through a snowstorm. It is an expanded version of the original ‘snow’ which was exhibited in 1997.

Warmenhoven & Venderbos designer fashion blog | Tokujin Yoshioka | Snow

Photos and video: Tokujin Yoshioka | Tokujin Yoshioka inc. website |

Luc Braquet | Backstage

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | Designer Fashion Blog | Luc Braquet |

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | Designer Fashion Blog | Luc Braquet |

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | Designer Fashion Blog | Luc Braquet |

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | Designer Fashion Blog | Luc Braquet |

 

Warmenhoven & Venderbos | Designer Fashion Blog | Luc Braquet |

 

Backstage is a recently shot series by the French photographer Luc Braquet with a strong and interesting documentary quality. Read more about him in an earlier posted article on the Warmenhoven & Venderbos blog and see for the full series his portfolio website.

 Photos by Luc Braquet | Luc Braquet portfolio website |