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Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #12), 2019 colored pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper
Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019 colored pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper

↳ The drawings from the series ‘samplebook pages’ are based on reworked and remixed patterns and motifs from the cloth sample books of the Leidsche Katoen Maatschappij (De Helder & Co.) and Firma Haykens & Co. fromthe 19th/early 20th century (from the collection of Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden). Images of the old samplebook patterns are cut up, multiplied, reversed, rotated and edited to create a new composition. The small imperfections that arise as a result of the editing process become an integral part of the drawing.

Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019 colored pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper

Untitled (Samplebook Pages #11), 2020
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019, pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper

Untitled (Samplebook Pages #4), 2019
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019 colored pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper

Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

Stephan van den Burg Untitled (Samplebook Pages #12), 2019 colored pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm - drawing, contemporary drawing, work on paper, art on paper

Untitled (Samplebook Pages #12), 2020
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

↳ Style (can’t help it), 2010 | This work was a first example of a series of works in which the outcome of a drawing is determined by imperfect tools. A perfect grid of lines was the intention, but was hindered by the use of two battered geometry sets. Drawing and tools are shown side by side. Another example is Perfect Grid (2011), below. A small wooden stick with small notches was used as a ruler to draw a ‘perfect grid’. The drawing is pinned to the wall, and rests on the stick.

Perfect grid, 2011
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm

Style (can’t help it), 2010 (detail)
colored pencil on paper + set triangles
14.8 x 14.8 cm

Perfect Grid, 2011
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm

Perfect Grid, 2011 (detail)
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm

↳ Blue / Residu (2010) was the first in a serie of polyptychs showing the complete result of  a drawing: a finished blue monochrome and the residu of pencil dust. Later variations (such as ‘Violet/residu’, 2010) also contained the underpaper, used while drawing.

Blue, 2010
(from diptych ‘Blue/Residu’)
colored pencil on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm

Residu, 2010
(from diptych ‘Blue/Residu’)
colored pencil, glue on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm

Violet Residu, 2010
colored pencil, glue on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm (x4)

12-pack drawing #3, 2015 pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm

↳ 12-pack drawings [2015] | Serie of drawings made with the complete content of one pack Palomino Blackwing-pencils, bound together with a rubber band.

12-pack drawing #3, 2015 pencil on paper 29.7 x 21 cm

12-pack drawing #3, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

12-pack drawing #1, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

12-pack drawing #5, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

12-pack drawing #6, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm

↳ Invitation postcard for the exhibition http://tinyurl.com/cjg4b48  [Wetering Galerie, april/may 2012]
The front of the card shows a detail from the work ‘Folded’ (detail), folded paper, 18 x 27 cm (below) – a teared fragment from a found magazine page. The sharp folding slightly damages the paper and creates a tight but unique grid.

Folded, 2012
folded magazine page, 18 x 27 cm

↳ back of invitation postcard [inverted]

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