being human in a digital world
somewhere between art and design
aggregative, dispersed and speculative objects
My work can appear in many different forms and places.
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Artist’s Book, Digital edition
Jane Birkin & Walter van Rijn, To Perform: SO: To Speak (2020)
52 pages, 3 b&w illustrations, ISBN 978-1-9164523-3-6.
New Ink Drawings While working from home and pondering my freedoms, I am creating drawings in collaboration with a little drawing robot. In the future Androids will have to fight for their rights to. This series of 5 works set out their rights line by […]
Hortus is a new project, which involves research into the early Renaissance Botanic Gardens of Padua (IT) and Leiden (NL). I’m very glad to receive the a-n Artist Bursary so I can start my project with visiting these sites and their libraries.
Time After Time is curated by Professor Stephen Foster, John Hansard Gallery’s Director from 1987–2017 and reflects on the Gallery‘s history and programme.
Top image: Walter van Rijn, Labyrinth_WD5, 2020, Collage with ink, digital print, vinyl, aluminium panel 800 x 600 x20 mm, Font Being Human. The works in the series Labyrinth consists of repetitions of text and coloured lines creating intricate abstract patterns and architectural spaces seen […]
The Detoxification of UGLD, A Selection Of 25, is a statement on Human Rights and Art in the form of quotes. It comments on our current cultural-political situation through quotes.
At The Other Art Fair I will launch my new artist’s book “A_Selection_Of_25_From_JHG_By_*:bot_(2018)” in a very limited edition of 25. The publication (and my show during the art fair) is a continuation of my dispersal practice, but this time in a commercial context.
I have a stand at The Other Art Fair, from 14 – 17 March 2019. Location: The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
Now that the exhibition Time After Time at John Hansard Gallery is finished, I am continuing to disperse my work through Instagram. At the same time, the series of 25 works on plexiglass are for sale online through Saatchi.
Three events I take part in during the Time After Time exhibition at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
Time After Time, 8 September – 3 November 2018 Caroline Bergvall, Victor Burgin, Hamad Butt, John Latham, Charlotte Posenenske and Walter van Rijn. John Hansard Gallery Southampton UK. Exhibition install and opening More info on the exhibition >
Walter van Rijn, He Thought That UGLD (2018) New Media work 20 of a series of 25; Digital print face-mounted on plexiglass, with aluminium subframe, 30.5 x 41.5 x 2.5 cm; Artwork created for the “Time After Time” exhibition at John Hansard Gallery 2018. Limited […]
