Sanne Bruggink
Zwolle (the Netherlands), 1970
Sanne Bruggink (1970) wants to create in freedom, but as a daughter of a performing artist she didn’t aspire a life as an artist. After an unfortunate first study choice, she decided to go through art academy in the end. The choice was set to Interdisciplinary Attitudes. At the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse she painted on a daily basis and used a chair as a basic principle; ‘I painted the illusion ‘visual form in space’ and the chair was my excuses.’ Later on, at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, she would let go of the figuration entirely.
Characteristic for Bruggink’s work is her sense of rhythm, shape and size. The abstract play of shapes gives her the freedom to visualize the maximum with the minimum amount of elements. ‘Where the art of painting was a vigorous deviation of any illusionistic display for the artists of De Stijl, that’s where I discover the boundaries of the perceptible.’
In addition to that, Bruggink smoothes out the originally geometrical shapes so extremely, that they reside close to the organic. The abstract colour panes stand out more or less through colour, shape or position, which creates depth. Her work is two-dimensional and spatial all at once.
For the Open Air Museum De Lakenhal, Bruggink has made a mural about the ONGRIJPBAARHEID of light and space: ‘What is really there and what only exists in your imagination?’. Starting point is a series of small paintings Shimmer in subtle white, grey nuances and black, which she has made earlier this year. The result is a rhythmical composition of image and after-image on the verge of the perceptible. Sanne Bruggink has studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse, at the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Bosch and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. For Bruggink, the difference between the one-dimensional surface and the space is of great importance in the work process, the effect of the eye as a camera and subsequently the translation by the brain.
Bruggink works on projects in public space as well as the space within museum related context. In 2016 she created Spot On in the ACEC (Apeldoorns Centre for Contemporary Culture). For the Amsterdam based Marcus Street she created Het Schijnt (‘It Shines’) (2010) and on the Weesper Square Ontspoord (‘Derailed’) (2009). Apart from this, she exhibited in: Arti et Amicitae in Amsterdam (2016), the The Hague Municipal Museum (2014) and the Vishal, Haarlem (2014). As most participating artists in the Open Air Museum De Lakenhal, Bruggink exhibited in Sydney Non Objective (SMO) in 2010.
