The Wall #2
What happens when an artist makes a translation to a large format in his work? Marnix Sixma enters into the experiment in The Wall #2, the second edition of the project The Wall. Until April 15, he will be working on an artwork of almost 200m2.
You can follow the development of his work at Kunstpunt, visit us from Wednesday to Saturday between 12 and 5 pm.
THE WALL: CHANCE TO EXPERIMENT
It is not often that artists have the opportunity to experiment on a large scale. Still, working in public space, such as art on facades, squares and in parking garages, requires some practice. That is why Kunstpunt Groningen has created the project The Wall. On an inner wall in Kunstpunt with a surface area of almost 200 m2, artists have the unique opportunity to get to work freely. Project leader Sander Vermeulen: “The project aims to help the artist take a step into a new way of working in which size and scale reach further than he or she has previously explored.”
With The Wall, Kunstpunt offers a prelude to commissioned work in the public space and thus responds to artists’ demand for space for research and experimentation. In the first edition of The Wall, the Greek artist Christos Mavrodis made a beautiful charcoal drawing on the wall.
Marnix Sima talks about The Wall
When asked why he signed up for the project, Marnix responds: “When I heard about The Wall, I saw an excellent opportunity to explore a new space, while I could also further develop my own work by working on a larger scale. format to work. I saw the possibility of a new encounter between a space and my work; a conversation about transience and change.”
Read the entire interview with Marnix here.
ABOUT MARNIX SIXMA
Visual artist Marnix Sixma (1991) completed his bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at Academy Minerva in 2019 and has since exhibited in Het Resort and Galerie Block C, among others. The theme of ‘change’ intrigues him, and the way in which you can make this phenomenon visible in the special. Marnix: “I see the large wall and floor of Kunstpunt as an invitation to depict the process of change. Change takes time. I want to approach this in a symbolic and poetic way by making it spatially visible on a surface.”