RINUS VAN DE VELDE
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Rinus Van de Velde (b. 1983 in Leuven, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Van de Velde has taken big steps over the recent years in the development of his oeuvre. Where at the start of his career he was best known for his large-scale charcoal drawings, he now profiles himself as a total artist, through the use of various media such as drawing, sculpture, installation, and film.

Van de Velde’s work plays with the tension between reality and fiction and creates a complex world in which documentation and fiction, reproduction, and reconstruction are inextricably linked. His works have a particularly complex layering through a ...