Written by Christine Bornfeld

Ron Mandos, a contemporary art gallery in the centre of Amsterdam, is currently exhibiting Nick Ervinck‘s voluminous 3D-sculptures. His plastic arts, whether room-filling or small enough to fit in a modest glas cabinet, are – no matter what size – always disconcerting. The Belgian artist leaves us in a fictional space without any answers – playing with volumes, media and materials.

Ervinck’s working materials – plaster, polyester  and wood – result in a polymorph intensification of reality and fiction – organic but elusive. Constructed by the machine, deconstructed by the hands of the artist himself. Similarities with the work of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen cannot be denied – both of them are working together with 3D-printing expert Materialise.

In the past nine years since his beginnings, Ervinck’s work has travelled galleries from Belgium to Great Britain, Dubai, San Francisco and New York. With the exhibition on display through June 6,2012 at gallery Ron Mandos, his sculptures travel back to familiar territory.