Tribute to Sol LeWitt
Traditionally, iCOON honors minimalist artists from the 1960s every year. This year, it's Sol LeWitt. Four muralists and one 3D artist will be exhibiting their work at iCOON. Together with Marleen van Wijngaarden, founder of Rotterdam-based Murals Inc., Helma Vlemmings, curator of iCOON, selected the muralists: Nanna van Heest, Jelmer Noordeman, Ropp Schouten, and Sigmund de Jong. They will create one or more murals, both indoors and outdoors.
Joep Brouwer was the fifth artist invited to create a connection between iCOON's four spaces with his sculptures.
Joep Brouwer
In his work, Joep Brouwer explores how people use, adapt, and try to understand their living environment. The experience of public and private spaces plays a significant role in this, as do the often invisible systems that regulate these spaces. Graphic visual language such as maps, pictograms, and instructional drawings are recurring elements in his work. They offer guidance, structure, and are readable by, in principle, everyone. It is precisely the contrast between this readability and the complex reality that lies behind it that creates a tension for Brouwer.
By combining materials and techniques such as wood, clay, prints, and drawings, Brouwer seeks a visual language that is layered and fragmented. Technical precision and human craftsmanship are closely intertwined, resulting in three-dimensional objects and wall sculptures that invite a diverse interpretation.
