Ewoud van Rijn
artistic research - figurative - history - graphics - publication
Ewoud van Rijn's work is fueled by his interest in how art, science and spiritual movements overlap, influence and inform each other; how art and spirituality, since the scientific revolutions of the modern age, have taken over the scientific strategies of knowledge production, but also leave room for intuition and the irrational. Van Rijn positions his practice within the emerging fields of 'artistic research' and 'post-secular art'. In the first area, art is supposed to contribute to the cultural knowledge economy from an artistic perspective. The second is concerned with the continuing influence of the spiritual on the wider cultural field. This dual positioning allows spiritual tendencies to be explored artistically, while at the same time highlighting and exploring their cultural significance.