"I'm looking for a short circuit," he says. Short circuit never leads to figuration. As a Dutchman he loves flat and straight. Mondriaan is in the blood. He finds 'kitsch' in Bergen. "I am always happy when I am across the Alps and I am entering the Po-Plain." Energy is the basis for everything, everything can be traced back. Magnetic forces, germination, light, the energy of heat and cold, the force fields between you and me. That sounds soggy, but Van Munster's work is not at all.
Over the past decades, abstract, minimalist works have emerged throughout the Netherlands and beyond in public spaces, in museums, along motorways and buildings. You have probably seen one. The works are like a house but strangely enough to blow away with a breath, they look so fragile. This is because Van Munsters work often consists of only one single line. Sometimes that line twists, sometimes it also shoots upwards like an arrow, sometimes it forms a circle. The lines are illuminated and have colors, made up of neotubes. The colors, the clear lines, give the work its strikingly drawing-like and aesthetic quality.
Additional images: Peter Cox