12 September - 15 November 2009
Artist Frank Halmans has his own way of looking at the built environment. In his sculptures and maquettes, he explores the physical characteristics of the home, shrinking the furnishings in a room to one-third their normal width, building from memory scale models of all the bedrooms he has ever slept in, creating a multi-storey block of flats to fit on a vacuum cleaner body or carving out windows in books. Time and again, he overturns our thinking on objects that are familiar to us from our own private lives but also encompass universal aspects of ‘domesticity’. In Kunsthal KAdE, Halmans will for the first time show a wide selection of his drawings: ranging from sketches and working drawings for the sculptures to autonomous projects like the ‘Lost & Found’ series, consisting of minutely detailed drawings of found insects.
Frank Halmans 'Lost and Found'
Frank Halmans 'Lost and Found' (detail)
www.frankhalmans.nl/
Level # 2 Frank Halmans
Artist Frank Halmans has his own way of looking at the built environment. In his sculptures and maquettes, he explores the physical characteristics of the home, shrinking the furnishings in a room to one-third their normal width, building from memory scale models of all the bedrooms he has ever slept in, creating a multi-storey block of flats to fit on a vacuum cleaner body or carving out windows in books. Time and again, he overturns our thinking on objects that are familiar to us from our own private lives but also encompass universal aspects of ‘domesticity’. In Kunsthal KAdE, Halmans will for the first time show a wide selection of his drawings: ranging from sketches and working drawings for the sculptures to autonomous projects like the ‘Lost & Found’ series, consisting of minutely detailed drawings of found insects.
Frank Halmans 'Lost and Found'
Frank Halmans 'Lost and Found' (detail)
www.frankhalmans.nl/
