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 populati ...
. From the age of 15, he studied at the
Academie voor Schone Kunsten
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp () is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, painter to the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and Don Juan of A ...
in
Bruges
Bruges ( , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders, in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is in the northwest of the country, and is the sixth most populous city in the country.
The area of the whole city amoun ...
and at the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK)
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent (, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in Belgium. It is a part of the Hogeschool Gent, a Belgium University college.
History
The Academy was founded in 1748 as a school for drawing ...
in
Ghent
Ghent ( ; ; historically known as ''Gaunt'' in English) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium, province ...
.
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
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract art, abstract monumental Bronze sculpture, bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. Moore ...
(1898–1986),
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadin ...
(1903–1975), and
Hans Arp
Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp (; ; 16 September 1886 – 7 June 1966), better known as Jean Arp in English, was a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. He was known as a Dadaist and an abstract artist.
Early life
Arp was born Hans Peter Wilhelm Ar ...
(1886-1966). The futuristic blob architecture (a term of Greg Lynn) and the work of
Zaha Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born ...
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 work was called WARSUBEC. Afterwards followed monumental works in public and private collections, including: NARZTALPOKS (Our Farm, Bruges), LUIZADO (Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren
Tongeren (; ; ; ) is a city and former 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 only Roman administrative capital wit ...
), IMAGROD (Milho, Ostend
Ostend ( ; ; ; ) is a coastal city and municipality in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke, Raversijde, Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the la ...
), 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 bicycle racing, road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic cycle races, classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late ...
.
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
West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...
in 2002 (nominated).
* Godecharle for sculpture, 2005.
* Provnciale prize for visual arts of West Flanders
West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...
, 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