Nick Ervinck (born 1981) is a Belgian artist.
Biography
Ervinck was born in 1981, in
Kortemark
Kortemark (), also previously Cortemarck, is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Handzame, Kortemark, Werken and Zarren. On January 1, 2006, Kortemark had a total population o ...
. From the age of 15, he studied at the
Academie voor Schone Kunsten in
Bruges
Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the country by population.
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and at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in Belgium. It is now part of the Hogeschool Gent.
History
The Academy was founded in 174 ...
in
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...
.
Work
Ervinck creates, in his own words, a dialogue between craft and technology and between the virtual and the physical. His shapes are inspired by the work of
Henry Moore (1898–1986),
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), and
Hans Arp (1886-1966). The futuristic blob architecture (a term of Greg Lynn) and the work of
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...
also inspire him. Ervinck often used the color yellow in his work, but he has also used other colors.
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In 2008, Ervnick conceived on behalf of the Liedts-Meessens two terraces for which its site in Ghent Zebrastraat
The Zebrastraat ( Dutch for "Zebra Street") is a small street in the Belgian city of Ghent. The first worker housing building in the country, designed by the architect Charles van Rysselberghe in 1906, is located in the Zebrastraat. The building ...
. The work was called WARSUBEC. Afterwards followed monumental works in public and private collections, including: NARZTALPOKS (Our Farm, Bruges), LUIZADO (Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren
Tongeren (; french: Tongres ; german: Tongern ; li, Tóngere ) is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, in the southeastern corner of the Flemish region of Belgium. Tongeren is the oldest town in Belgium, as the onl ...
) IMAGROD (Milho, Ostend
Ostend ( nl, Oostende, ; french: link=no, Ostende ; german: link=no, Ostende ; vls, Ostende) is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerk ...
) CIRBUATS (A large yellow "blob" in the form of a chair in the Zebra, Ghent, where a bar is located /sup>), EGNOABER ( Emmen) /sup>. For NK Cycling in Emmen 2015 Ervinck designed the trophy entitled ENNERNEISE. /sup>
In 2016, he designed the trophy for the cycling race, Gent–Wevelgem
Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...
.
Ervinck has investigated alongside more conventional work also known as the "artistic possibilities of the digital revolution". The boundaries of the virtual space he wants to make tangible the complex forms of 3D prints that are impossible to do manually (such AGRIEBORZ 2009). He also makes 3D printing, animation videos, digital and ordinary drawings interact with each other.
Awards
Ervink received from 2000 several awards and nominations:
* Stimulant, 2001.
* Provincial prize for visual arts of West Flanders
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in 2002 (nominated).
* Godecharle for sculpture, 2005.
* Provnciale prize for visual arts of West Flanders
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, 2006 (laureate).
* Médiatine Prize of the city of Brussels in 2006.
* Cultuurprijs 2006-2007, municipality Kortemark, 2007.
* Award of New Media, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, 2008.
* Rodenbachfonds Award 2008 (winner).
* Golden Phoenix, Culture Prize of Houtland, 2011 (laureate).
References
External links
Official website
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1981 births
Living people
21st-century Belgian sculptors
Belgian male sculptors
People from Kortemark