SUMNIM, 2013
print
52 x 72 cm
20.5 x 28.3 inches
SUMNIM is a portable, not to be entered, museum room in which Ervinck questions the static features of the white cube. Instead of presenting his sculpture on a pedestal in the middle of the room, this sculpture seems to extend from the ground to the wall. This way, SUMNIM brings into question the classic vertical presentation of artworks on a wall or their static presentation in the middle of the room.SUMNIM as well refers to a discourse in contemporary architecture on the tension between rigid structures and organic ones, which Ervinck interprets as a play between boxes and blobs. Ervinck doesn’t look for monumentality or rigidity, but rather tries to pry loose the shape out of the base. Here, the box structure is completely absent. Several of these boxes made by different artists will be placed upon each other. The public is invited to look in the museum rooms, as if it are show-boxes.
2018 |
Museum to Scale,
Universiteit Antwerpen - Antwerp, BE
2018
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2017 |
Museum To Scale 1/7,
Ghisla Art Collection - Locarno, CH
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2016 |
GNI-RI apr2016,
Oude Kerk - Vichte, BE
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