Stijn Van Dorpe ‘a Bookcase’ object materials from his personal archives

materials from his personal archives

Liesje Vandenbroeck

1965) presents collages with cut-up echoes

a much wider array of material surfaced

Additionally an enormous amount of attention is lavished upon certain materials and their relationships

Stijn Van Dorpe ‘a Bookcase’ object materials from his personal archivesStijn Van Dorpe (b. 1970) got the idea for the work A Bookcase while assembling three bookcases at home and at the same time listening to music. He found it interesting that the music had no influence on the ultimate form of the assembled bookcase. With this premise established, he invited students of a vocational school for woodworking to take part in a performance during a residency at Hotel Charleroi. Van Dorpe asked them to assemble a bookcase in