MARK MANDERS
Name: Mark Manders
Age: 53
Birthplace: Volkel, The Netherlands
Home: Ronse, Belgium
Discipline: Installation, Drawing, Sculpture & Film
Composition with Four Yellow Verticals, 2017"2019, painted bronze, iron
What is your background?
I began as a writer, then started writing with objects.
What are the main topics you deal with in your work?
Things, and how our mind and body relate to these things, and how these things sometimes slightly touch something meaningful that we all share.
How do you define your artistic search and practice in three words?
Investigating the mind.
Which techniques do you use to create?
I use mostly painted bronze.
How do you consider your work in relation to current societal issues?
I think it is great that my work feels stable.
What kind of approach towards ‘aesthetics’ does your work provide?
Aesthetics is a tricky word and one I try to avoid. Sometimes, now and then, it creeps in through the backdoor. Those are great moments, for sure.
What kind of beauty does your work focus on?
Sometimes you fail in a beautiful way.
What does being an artist mean in your opinion today?
As an artist you are given time to think about a shadow falling out of a white cup. A great profession, no doubt.
What is the message you want to deliver with your work?
No short messages. I try to freeze my thoughts as precisely as possible in the form of objects that seem left behind. Then I try to connect these different objects together, like sentences, in a room. And then I try to connect this room to other rooms. Eventually, they form a building together.
Composition with Four Yellow Verticals, 2017"2019, painted bronze, iron