Sanne

“OVERTURN” 2023
A working day in Sanne Bruggink’s art studio – A short movie by Matti Stooker.

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∼ Capture the balance ∼

I can be surprised by a moment that at the same time holds beauty but is also mysterious. Like when the sun shines brightly on a white fence but also shades parts of the bars, making irregular shapes appear to have been cut out. A brief moment of amazement and it slips away again. In my studio, I try to capture those moments. For where in my daily life I seem to have little grip on what stays and disappears, I can play with that in my work and in that way keep the balance in my own hands.

I capture light and movement on a flat and static surface, creating a strong suggestion of spatiality. For instance, I paint image and afterimage, where as a viewer you no longer know what you really see and what your brain adds, you can’t put your finger on it. A composition in fragile balance, a little more under control than released, a little more in harmony than in imbalance. Between geometric and organic, between form and emptiness, between appearing and disappearing, between visible and hidden.

Commissioned by WTC Schiphol Airport, I designed the work “Move On [panta rhei]”. Last year, it was executed over 69 windows (approx. 110 x 250 cm per window). The work consists of multiple prints in 3 layers of ink on transparent vinyl. The literal translation of “panta rhei” is “everything flows”; no moment and no image will ever be the same.

Besides large work for public spaces, I am currently focusing on work in small format, with thinly sprayed graphic layers of ink, on 35 x 35 cm paper. The modest proportions give the work an intimate character. In both my works for public spaces and my works in my studio, I shift, scale and rotate graphic layers in relation to each other to make a movement visible. By stacking the layers, leaving parts empty and working with different transparencies, I express light. Together, it gives the spatial suggestion you can identify my work with for 30 years.

 

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