3D-PEN SCULPTURES
3D-filament Sculpturen vervaardigd met de 3D-filamentpen die fungeert als extruder die de plastic draad verhit en door de matrijs duwt om zo een eindeloze vorm te produceren. Niet onmiddellijk het gemakkelijkste materiaal om dergelijke sculptuur te verwezenlijken. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van 100% biologisch afbreekbaar 3D-printmateriaal, volledig geurloos, milieuvriendelijk en gemaakt van niet-giftige materialen. De tekeningen werden vervaardigd door gebruik van verschillende technieken, acrylverf en 3D-filamentpen.
Myth is all around us.
Not only the Ancient Greek myths survived in arts, literature etc. but actual myths, created in our own society and used like a message that conveyed when an object, image, or phrase becomes associated with a concept and thus take on a symbolic meaning. They have a function in society but they can pose certain dangers when society’s dominant institutions abuse these messages.
The Myth of plastic
One of those myths are the marvels of plastic, the magical substance that is transformed from nature and constantly in a state of metamorphosis. Plastic as a symbol for a new world. We exist in an incredibly replaceable culture. We switch our phones every year for new applications. Even our bodies are plastic, whether for cosmetic or medically plastic can exist as countless different things, in this way it is infinite and transcendessociated with a concept and gets conveying symbolic meaning."The whole world, even life itself, can be plasticized since plastic aortas, arms, legs etc. are manufactured", sayd philosopher Barthes.
Now this myth is overwelmed bij an other story; there is the myth of the growing plastic lake, now bigger than a twentyfold of Belgium that is floating in the big ocean and that becomes the dead of sealife and life on aerth. ©2024 Hilde NIJS
STOP WAR
"Concepts of Humanism"
The work of Belgian artist Hilde NIJS, entitled "Concepts of Humanism” whose practice includes series of drawings, paintings, mixed techniques, digital art, collages, sculptural ceramics, installations and sceneries, 3d ArtPen Sculptures and comprise many new works from her recent series Messengers of the Unconscious, The Riddle of Thinking Humanity, Human versus AI Machinery etc. Inspired by her own research on many subjects and books of Hannah Arendt, Freud's topographical model of the mind, Marcel Broodthaers and his Institutional Critique, Word and Image, art world role playing etc., the provocative art of Joseph Beuys and his extended definition, in which the ideas of social sculpture could potentially reshape society and politics, the Belgian philosopher Leopold Flam and many more, Nijs' art should be thought as some sort of wake up call for a new world and absolutely something to reflect on.
On her canvases, Hilde NIJS writes texts, messages and words as a result of her research study, also she selects the contemporary media, news headlines, advertisements, etc. and drops this all into a dialogue with each other, with history and with her own imagination such as a new world who comes alive on the surfaces consisting of layers deposits on each other. Inspired by Palimpsest, the preparing surfaces are defined as a manuscript that has been modified or changed but that still has traces of its original writing and as the world is constantly changing, our society as such can be viewed as a frequently altered palimpsest. All those elements are the raw materials necessary for the new and better world she wants to create for the survival of mankind. Regarding the ideological underpinning of her methodology, she describes the process of layering, printing, scribing, drawing, painting, scraping, erasing, dripping as a “necessary act of renewing,” an overflow of matter, sources, fragments, drawings, patterns and symbolism who allows the viewer to assemble their own moral view on society.
The Human Condition. From the series "HUMAN MACHINERY"
Artificial Intelligence. Human as a machine, the machine as a human.
HUMANS, NOT MACHINES, CREATE MEANING!
In the term "Artificial Intelligence (AI), the word Intelligence is just a metaphor - 2022
Analytical preliminary study of the human body.
An architectural plan for the human body to build the human such as a machine
or the machine such as a human.
Analytische voorstudie van het menselijk lichaam.
Een architecturaal bouwplan voor de mens als machine of de machine als mens - 2022
The Human Condition. From the series "HUMAN CONNECTION"
The world would not exist without the human activity which produced it.
No human life is possible, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness,without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.
Conversation and communication are both essential ingredients of connectedness - 2022
ART COnnects
La capacité sphérique se connectant à la manche
The Human Condition. From the series 'The Riddle of Thinking Humanity'
Acryl painting on Canvas 080x060