Top image: Walter van Rijn (2019) Labyrinth Wall Design 2, collage on aluminium, 80 x 60 x 2 cm, font Being Human. Digital print, vinyl, aluminium panel with aluminium subframe. The works in the series Labyrinth consists of repetitions of text and coloured lines creating […]
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The Detoxification Of UGLD, A Selection Of 25, Series
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.

Book: A_Selection_Of_25
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.

Artwork available online through Saatchi
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.

He Thought That UGLD (2018)
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 […]

Multiple: UGLD Packaging Tape with Dispenser
Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion, Promo! Including Packaging Tape and Dispenser (2015-2018).
2x Printed adhesive vinyl tape and 1x Hand Tape Dispenser in taped carton box.
Tape: Adhesive vinyl tape 50 mm x 66 meter, printed with text: “Caution Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion” in a font designed by VVVR.
Hand Tape Dispenser: variable
Box, ca. 25 x 17x 7cm.

Book: A_Selection_Of_66
Walter van Rijn 2018 A_Selection_Of_66_From_JHG : Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion Artist’s Book, Softback, Crown Quarto Format 246x189mm, 160 pp Limited Edition of 33 numbered and signed copies

to perform: SO: to speak
How Can You & I Ever Be Free In the 21st C? A performance together with Jane Birkin as part of the SO: to speak festival of words in Southampton on 21st October 2017. For the first time we combined our work to perform.

How Can You And I Ever Be Free In The 21stC ?
How Can You and I Ever Be Free In The 21stC? (2017) Walter van Rijn Poster on billboard 3x6m, Font Being Human. #REDboard2017, RED Contemprary Arts, Hull UK. #REDboard2017, an off-site project from RED Contemporary Arts in Hull. REDboard is a curated series of thirteen […]

Display
For the exhibition Time After Time I am planning to create several displays that re-imagine an exhibition history. This display is an example of the module Display, which is a combination of software and hardware. It forms part of the long-term project UGLYD, which I […]

Wall Drawing
UGLyD wall drawing (2017) graphite, John Hansard Gallery. Testing out possiblities for wall drawings after the artwork time frames I created for the JHG Exhibition Archive. In this archive I have created for each exhibition and artwork an infographic that shows the time frame of […]

Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion, text
Text from artist’s book: A_Selection_Of_66_From_JHG : Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion (2018)
It introduces the terms unconsumable, global, luxury and dispersion, in relation to my artist’s practice and my upcoming exhibition at the Hansard Gallery.