Rick Koren - "And they all had the same question"

The title "And they all had the same question" refers to a song by Laurie Anderson, in which she talks/sings "and they all had the same question: what is behind that curtain......" What you see is a slightly undulating surface of bitumen or roofing felt. A cloud of ink drips down. At the bottom, the names of Eastern European cities are cut out, as they appeared on an old radio station plate. These strange radio sounds from the East inspired the artist.
The work is shipped (or can be shipped) in a custom-made wooden crate provided.
About the artist:
Rick Koren is able to evoke a dreamy atmosphere with few and often insignificant materials. A combination of sobriety and poetry ensures that the viewer becomes aware of an alternating absorption in illusion and return to reality. He lets you float between recognition and alienation. Sometimes the form is clear, but the material unexpected. Then again the material is leading and the form follows automatically. The separate elements are clear, but the combination is strange.
Koren is a master in the use of different materials. He effortlessly combines wood, metal, sand, tar, glass, soap, hair and nitrous oxide cartridges. The result is always an object of wondrous beauty with a poetic expressiveness.
website: www.rickoren.nl
Instagram: rickkorenkunst
some exhibitions:
Gorkum Museum Gorkum 2018/19
Pictura Dordrecht 2020
WTC art gallery Rotterdam 2016/19
Westerkade art Rotterdam 2020/22/24
Gallery Artline Delft 2024
Museum Flehite Amersfoort 2024
permanent outdoor sculpture on Kepplerplein The Hague
nomination Francois Schneider Competition 2019