Gert Robijns: On-

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Gert Robijns’ (Sint-Truiden, °1972) playful installations and surreal interventions focus the viewer’s attention on aspects of perception and intuition. Though he is inspired by everyday situations, he depicts them in ways that call our immediate environment into question. His recent sculptures treat concepts such as order-disruption, activity-inactivity, above-below and positive-negative. The exhibition brings together new and older works.

ON-? The title of the exhibition is simply ‘On-‘. ‘On-’ is a prefix that can be placed in front of an enormous number of Dutch words. It signifies a negation. The addition of ‘on-‘ changes the meaning of a word entirely. Logical becomes illogical, interesting becomes uninteresting, sense becomes nonsense. The reversal of meaning is highly characteristic of Robijns’ oeuvre. He applies it to the objects he uses in his installations.

Gert Robijns
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