Ron van der Ende (born 1965) is a Dutch visual artist, who works as sculptor,

installation artist Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called ...

, and

video artist Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

.Ron van der Ende; male / Dutch; sculptor, installation artist, video artist
at rkd.nl. Accessed 2018-05-09. He is known for his monumental

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

s, depicting objects such as cars, buildings and space capsules.

Biography

Van der Ende was born in Delft in 1965 and raised in

Maasdijk, Westland Maasdijk is a village in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 5 km northwest of Maassluis Maassluis () is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ...

, where his father worked in a carpentry factory. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Technical Sciences in Rotterdam, now

Willem de Kooning Academy The Willem de Kooning Academy ( nl, Willem de Kooning Academie) is a Dutch academy of media, art, design, leisure and education based in Rotterdam. It was named after one of its most famous alumni, Dutch fine artist Willem de Kooning. Overvie ...

, from 1984 to 1988. He had started studying painting, but later switched to sculpture. After his studies in 1988 he settled as artist in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

. In the same year he co-founded the artists' collective ExpoHenK, and had his first exhibition in the Rotterdam gallery Dyonisus. In 1990 he was awarded the WdKA Maaskantprijs for a 1988 wall installation made out of six wooden objects of the same size based on historical drawings. Van der Ende continued to construct wooden objects. In 2000 he started making his famous

s by fixing pieces of veneer on wooden base constructions. They are made out of used wood, which usually contains the original layer of paint, such as old doors and other scrap wood.

Gallery

Chevelle 65 (2000).jpg, ''Chevelle 65'' (2000) Fly over (2002).jpg, ''Fly Over'' (2002) Peekskill (2008).jpg, ''Peekskill'' (2008) Voiture Balai (2010).jpg, ''Voiture Balai'' (2010) Holocene (2013).jpg, ''Holocene'' (2013) Veneer Theory (2013).jpg, Bas-relief No. 100: ''Veneer Theory'' (2014),Bas-relief in used wood (152 x 154 x 16 cm)

Exhibitions, a selection

;Group exhibitions, a selection * 1988. ''It's Boring but it's true!'', Dyonisus, Rotterdam. * 1989. ''Lineart'', Ghent, Belgium; with Galerie Delta. * 1990. ''Poliset'', Gallery Givichi d’Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy. * 1992. ..Autodesign in Nederland.., Kunsthal, Rotterdam. * 1998. ''Industrieel Landschap.'' Gothaer Kunstforum Köln, Cologne, DE; project with Freek Drent. * 2009. ''Kunst uit Huis V'': Ron Klein Breteler, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. * 2011. ''Will Be Home'', Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles CA, USA. ;International solo exhibition, a selection * 2008. ''Motor Memory,'' OkOk Gallery, Seattle WA, USA. * 2010. A Shallow Wade Ambach & Rice, Seattle WA, USA * 2011. ''Perishables,'' The Armory Show, New York NY, USA; with Ambach & Rice. * 2013. ''Phasmid,'' Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles CA, USA. * 2014. ''Dallas Art Fair,'' Dallas TX, USA; with Ambach & Rice.

Selected publications

* ''Ron van der Ende,'' Galerie Delta, 1990. * Frits van Dongen, Ron van der Ende,

Braden King Braden King (born 1971 North Carolina) is a New York-based filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. His feature film, ''Here'' (2011), starring Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal, premiered at the 2011 Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals and was distr ...

. ''The factory set'', Frame Publishers, 2015.

References

External links

ronvanderende.nl
website {{DEFAULTSORT:Ende, Ron van der 1965 births Dutch sculptors Dutch contemporary artists Dutch installation artists Living people