Walter van Rijn

  • Display

    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 described in an earlier post. One way to explore a

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  • Wall Drawing

    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 that item. It shows how contemporary each exhibition was. Or

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  • Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion, text

    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.

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  • UGLD, John Hansard Gallery Exhibition Database (2016-2018)

    UGLD, John Hansard Gallery Exhibition Database (2016-2018)

    Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion (UGLyD) is a project that collects and disperses artwork titles related to an exhibition history. In collaboration with the John Hansard Gallery, Walter van Rijn has aggregated more than 5000 artwork titles from work exhibited in the gallery at the Highfield Campus from the first exhibition in 1980 till the last…

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  • Being Human Font: Playing with letters

    Being Human Font: Playing with letters

    Playing with letters, words, language and human rights… Being Human (2016) Font software with OFL (SIL Open Font License)

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  • Symbiotic Fonts

    Symbiotic Fonts

    The new font I am going to use for the Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion project is called Being Human.

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  • Rethinking The Status Of The Art Object Through Distribution

    Rethinking The Status Of The Art Object Through Distribution

    I have recently published my thesis online at the academia website. Here is the abstract and link to download.

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  • UGLD Tape

    UGLD Tape

    Tape: Caution Unconsumable Global Luxury Dispersion. Self adhesive vinyl Tape. 55mm x 66m. White vinyl printed tape in red text with SymLogiDin font. Multiple. See also: multiple-uglyd-packaging-tape-with-dispenser/

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  • UGLD, A Proposition Exposition (2015)

    UGLD, A Proposition Exposition (2015)

    For this exhibition I archived and catalogued all the physical remains of the artwork I produced during my doctoral research. All objects are boxed up and delivered to the gallery. The condition and display in which these objects are shown is contingent on the choices made by the person (or persons) acting as curator during

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  • TITLE(date)

    TITLE(date)

    The TITLE(date) project aggregates artwork titles and other metadata from art collections and exhibitions. Art collections in the widest sense can be the works of one artist, an art institutional or private art collection, a collection of ‘favourite’ work on a phone.  For now it contains several databases, which in time will be merged into

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