unit(s) #1

Lacquered steel
Dimensions:
200 cm x 50 cm x 50 cm
Series of 30

Dimitri VANGRUNDERBEEK

Dimitri Vangrunderbeek designed a cupboard in collaboration with D&A Lab. The initial idea is based on his
moving figurines, cut out of paper, which are folded upwards at the feet (1991).
The attractive pattern, based on twelve figures taken from a sequence of photographs by Muybridge, provides us with an animated image thanks to the figurines which are arranged in different directions, creating an effect of movement owing to the way they have been cut out and the shadows they cast.
To create this piece of work, D&A Lab went in search of thin sheets of steel and a special technique in order to enable them to cut out these small shapes in this material.

ABOUT

Born 1964 in Brussels
Lives and works in Beersel

Dimitri Vangrunderbeek gives a new meaning to everyday objects – like chairs, lamps or even spaces.
When handling them, the artist not only makes them lose their initial purpose, but also their own specific physical characteristics, either by packing them up, wrapping them, coating them, sawing parts off them, polishing them, covering them, or dismantling them.
Vangrunderbeek is an artist who is familiar with furniture. His grandfather was a joiner and his parents ran a furniture shop. He created numerous works based on parts of furniture or furniture packed in wooden boxes.
Each piece of furniture he uses becomes useless.
The material, volume and composition of the object
disintegrates. The piece of furniture adopts a new shape and becomes a new object. While Vangrunderbeek renders an armchair useless by coating it with plaster, he makes a new armchair which becomes a sculpture.
It behaves differently in its surroundings, and several parts are hidden from our view
so that we can piece them together again through memory.