CANVAS SCULPTURE, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE and PERFORMING ARTS.
Atelier Dré Wapenaar works at the interface of architecture, design, sculpture and performing arts. Sculpture is the base, construction is important and textiles are very present in his installations.
Working with sculptures, presented in a three-dimensional context, is dealing with people turning around the work and being confronted with it. In working with tents and pavilions this movement is enlarged towards people turning and twisting around each other as well.
It is all about appropriation of space and giving space, how groups of people and individuals relate. The artist plays around with tent-based installations, pavilions, and more textile-based works.
With the universal language they speak, tents are an excellent means of understanding at least something of the chemistry between people.