Materials from home improvement or second-hand stores play the main role in the seemingly simple but balanced work of artist Tim Wunderink. ‘Hardly any paint comes into play in my work, but it does refer strongly to painting. My search for a composition, the distribution of form and colour, is like that of a painter’s.’
Underlying Tim’s use of materials is a fascination for construction sites. ‘In the interior of a building on such a site, you can see the layers between the ceiling and the floor. I look in a similar manner at a leaky old air mattress, for example. What would it look like from the inside out? In that way I discover interesting patterns and forms that comprise a rhythm as a whole.’
By stretching parts of objects on a canvas or combining them in an installation, he shares his findings with the viewer, who then rediscovers a familiar material. ‘The inside of a utilitarian object is meant to be purely functional,’ says Tim. ‘But the inside is precisely what I want to show, by giving it a different function and context. The result is something new.’