About the artwork
About the artist
Nick Ervinck °1981, Roeselare, Belgium
Lives and works in Lichtervelde, Belgium - www.nickervinck.com
Education:
1999-2003: Hogeschool Gent, Department Academy: Multimedia and 3D Mixed Media Gent
Nick Ervinck, visual artist, is working on an endless and growing archive of shapes that establish an interesting interaction between virtual structures and handmade sculptures, between sculpture and architecture. The digital images continuously contaminate the three-dimensional shapes and vice versa. In his oeuvre Ervinck uses a variety of means of expression: digital prints, video, drawings and sculptural forms mainly from painted plaster, fiberglass and wood, which are presented in a meticulous manner within a given space. The digital prints offer a view into a virtual digital world, but also to a 'different reality'. This 'looking through' shows possibilities of his research in which sculptural elements are represented in the form of always new compositions and meanings. In his realistic rooms, racks and platforms, polymorphic, synthetic forms are coming to life as mutated molecules through an artistic computer program. Walls are suddenly no longer walls, and gravity does not exist. Ervinck plays with sculptural shapes and in a blink elevates monumental 'buildings' and blows them again full of life. A house turns into a sculpture and unfolds into nothingness. It is a vigorous game with images, materials and space and a balancing act between means and objective, between meticulous calculation and inspired improvisation. In 2008, Nick Ervinck won the prize of the public of the New Technological Art Award of the Liedts-Meesen Foundation, and was also winner of the Rodenbach Price.