Daan botlek biography of albert

Drawing is the basis of Daan Botlek’s works, and the focus is the naked human body in its most basic form, without any biological features or elements to indicate a possible identity of the characters.

As the artist explains: “I needed to go minimalist in style and subject in order to get to the bare essence of an image.”

‘K-hole String Theory’

‘Thunder Squid Diorama’

The white silhouettes are sliced, fragmented, entangled, shown running, hiding or engaged in ambiguous activities.

According to Daan Botlek, many of his works follow the tradition of the visual narrative: “They tell a story; most of them as a moment in an ongoing story and some as a sequence of events unfolding over time.

Daan botlek biography of albert

The main characters, the concepts and the environments are constructed by and at play with the laws of geometry and physics (proportion). The meaning of the works is never clear or explained. There are an infinite number of interpret