New Colours
Make it yourself: New Colours
Several books with RAL colours gave Kim De Ruysscher inspiration. There is a huge amount of colours on the commercial market that allows one to create your own colour palette. In addition, the presentation of the colours can be seen as independent monochrome, where the image still can fill itself. Here is a silent reference to the abstract painting.
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.