Small
Boxes

Make it yourself: Small Boxes
Hidden content of boxes are revealed on the outside by subtle elements such as barcodes, logos, summary texts or symbols. They stir up the hunger to create, the desire to get to work, to deal with materials to create with. The boxes are all hand carved from stone. The details described as logos and barcodes are made by means of traditional painting and silkscreen artisan. Is it just frustrating that the boxes cannot be opened, so that we can continue with our work? Or gives it rest to know that we don’t have to do it ourselves?

About 'Make it yourself: Boxes'
Kim De Ruysscher realized all the 'Make it yourself: Boxes' traditionally own-hand-sculpted. These works tell us something about craft and about values. In addition, the imagination of the works is directed to the commercial. With the barcodes and the logos on the packaging, values ​​may be relatively accurate. The value of the object and society can be questioned. Within the 'Make it yourself' theme, the Boxes are clearly the discourse of the beginning, or the recognition of the future of the visual arts.

About the 'Make it yourself' series
'Make it yourself’ deals with the concept of time. This concept allows us to empathize with the images in a personal way. It plays with the idea of ​​the dying, but also the narrative in history.To escape time we can only imagine the timelessness. We cannot change or manipulate time, but just imagine it. In the ‘Make it yourself’ series the sculptures have been given an idea, or a given time. The more than 90 sculptures are all made of natural stone. Some are painted or silkscreened as well. Kim De Ruysscher works with traditional sculptural techniques and traditional material and connects these historical aspects with contemporary spirit. So he materializes a period and inertia. The presented sculptures from ‘Make it yourself’ carry a reticence to entail the time in which the future fulfillment of a work has not yet been determined, but in which the past is already over. Thus we see a drawing block, building blocks, a bag of plaster, wood blocks, paint tubes or paper. Apart from the past and present the works of 'Make it yourself' also focuses on the future.