‘RULL’ stands for the incoherent coherence that characterizes Sander Buijk’s work. Sander Buijk creates sculptures that are both bold and vulnerable, using a surprising mix of materials such as concrete, neon, and ceramics.
The solo exhibition is spread across two rooms, where highlights from recent years are combined with surprising new work.
Anyone who has been to Gallery Untitled knows Sander Buijk. His strikingly friendly and tough sculptures are a constant eye-catcher in our spaces. The comic-like figures are tough and fragile, caricatural and vulnerable, emotional and closed off.
His use of materials is equally unorthodox. He combines cast concrete with neon, polished aluminum, or elegant white ceramics, among other things. What interests Sander Buijk in the creation of a sculpture is the search for a boundary. A sculpture that, on the one hand, communicates well visually and, on the other hand, retains its individuality, spontaneity, and roughness. Images that are not too narrative, stimulating the viewer to interpret them. Contradictions that seem to belong together.
Buijk's work calls for interaction and invites the viewer to touch the material and even add their own twist by playing with the commonly used hinge mechanism or the loose parts of different materials that the artist uses. Sander Buijk has exhibited his work at venues including the Kunsthal in Rotterdam.