Melting Sun, 2024
Offset print on paper, plywood, steel, ø 300 cm. This artwork was made possible with the support of Flanders State of the Art.
Melting Sun, 2024
Offset print on paper, plywood, steel, aluminum, 340 x 340 cm.
With Melting Sun, artist Tijs Van Nieuwenhuysen explores the boundaries of his art, both literally and figuratively. This abstract graphic installation was displayed for two months on the façade of Third Breath by James Turrell at the Center for International Light Art in Unna, Germany. There, sunlight, rain, and local fauna shaped its transformation. The sun became his brush, fading parts of the artwork like memories over time. Other areas retained their sharpness and intensity.
Rather than being illuminated, Melting Sun was created by (sun)light. This synergy of natural elements and controlled exposure resulted in a dynamic piece that invites viewers to reflect on impermanence and the beauty of change. This artwork was made possible with the support of Flanders State of the Art.
Circle Square / Square Circle, Moving Grid, Tones, Grids Shadow, Horizontal, Melting Lines, 2023
Framed offset print on paper, discolored by the sun, six times 63 x 43 cm. Unique artworks. (Image 1 left: Circle Square / Square Circle, right: Moving Grid. Image 3 left: Tones, right: Grids Shadow. Image 5 left: Horizontal, right: Melting Lines.)
Gangsonderzon, 2023
Exhibition under the title GANGMAKER in de Witte Gang of de Warande.
Since July 2023, the work Zonsondergang had been displayed on the façade of de Warande: a mysterious and monumental sculpture, a pink, partially covered surface. For de Witte Gang, Van Nieuwenhuysen took the work—altered by exposure to the elements—down and reassembled its various parts in a new way, as if it were an anagram. This resulted in a new work titled Gangsonderzon.
Zonsondergang, 2023
Offset print on paper, plywood, steel frame, wooden frame, 453 x 230 cm. This installation hung on the façade of de Warande for 2 months.
Side-Deck, 2022
Rust pigment and offset ink printed on colored paper, 64 x 46 cm and 62 x 44 cm. These artworks were printed during a residency at Printship Brauhaus. (image 1 & 2: Side-Deck Circles, image 4: Side-Deck Dots)
In the Shadow of – Billboards, 2021
Offset print on paper modified by natural elements, plywood, wooden frame, two times 250 x 244 cm.
In the Shadow of – Pamphlets, 2021
Offset print on paper modified by natural elements, four times 50 x 33,5 cm, frame: 65 x 49 cm. (image 1 left: Pamphlet Leaves, right: Pamphlet Snail I, image 3 left: Pamphlet Snail II, right: Pamphlet Goat)
Shelter, 2021
Rust pigment screen-printed on steel and galvanized steel sheets, wooden frame, 75 x 65 x 10 cm.
Shelter Triptych, 2020
Rust pigment screen-printed on steel sheets, three times 120 x 100 cm. This artwork was printed during a residency at the Masereel Center.
Experiments, 2020
Rust pigment screen-printed on steel sheets, 30 x 20 cm. These artworks were printed during a residency at the Frans Masereel Centre.
Xylo, 2019
Woodcut print on paper with charcoal pigment and ash pigment, 50 x 40 cm.
An installation for vaART, 2018
This installation is placed near a bunker next to the canal Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten in Turnhout. The artwork tells the history of the bunker and the location and is part of the vaART project organized by Tourisme Kempen.
Several murals for vaART, 2018
vaART is an art project of Tourisme Kempen. On several locations along the canal Dessel-Turnhout-Schoten artworks have been placed that tell more about the history of that place. These 4 murals can also be found in several municipalities next to the canal.
Roest, 2016
An interest in the consumer society and her useless materials pushed me towards the making of a unique, changeable color. Inspired by the Nouveau Réalisme and its artists, I consciously chose for the transformation of rusted, lost objects to pigment. Using different processes, I came to creating my own ink, in two variants. If it appears that the ink – molded into a graphical concept – can rust again, then the circle is complete. In this manner we endlessly offer the waste products of our modern society material for making poetry.