Carve Up The Future

'Carve up the future' is a piece of speculative fiction in paint.
A series of icons: the hashtag, @ symbol, swords, band-aid, love heart, and houses float in a kind of flat dream-world map of green and blue. Abstract and disjointed the elements bounce off each other in a kind of free-flowing rhythmic rap. The grotesque and the beautiful sit side by side hinting at a possible future being divided up into parts. Land, ideas, maybe even communication is being carved up in this future place.

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Sydney Australian born and based, Dirk Kruithof studied a Fine Arts Diploma at Meadowbank and Kogarah Tafe, 1999 - 2001, Majoring in Painting. His subjects are language and information, the urban environment, words signs and symbols, beauty and decay. A kind of Pop Expressionism often incorporating elements of text or graffiti like marks. Dirk uses photographs, sketches, the net, loud music, newspapers, and life in the big bad city as source material and inspiration! Admires and influenced by artists like Wool, Basquiat, Kippenberger, Cullen, Bacon, Ramellzee, Dubuffet, Ian Fairweather, Lee Krasner and many others. Dirk has been exhibiting regularly since 2005.