Event

Rik Beuselinck at Creative Concept in New York

Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 4:00am to Tuesday, September 24, 2013 - 4:00am

As an artist Rik Beuselinck is self-educated. His technical knowledge gathered from high school and years of experience are responsible for the fact that Art in metal has no secrets for him anymore.

“Metal is my elixir of life, no other material is capable of giving me the same satisfaction. Every day again I am moved by this hard, tough, heavy mineral originating from mother Earth. It’s like a wild, rebellious creature that need to be mastered; once tamed it is pure bliss.”

Creating a work of Art is talking with your hands, emotion is reforged into concrete shapes coming directly from the guts and the heart.
A sad event or a glorious moment, a pebble from a river or a little bit of music, a bird free in the sky. Those are the kind of things that bring about an irresistible urge in myself to create something visible and tangible.

Rik fervently embraces the earthly matter, the metal and he trusts hisdeepest emotions to it. “It is an inner search for myself. Here the work of art speaks his own language, crude and sometimes powerful, sometimes velvety. As a restless dreamer and emotional soul, images are born in my head, combined with what I see and experience. Through hammering, welding, and polishing, linear plates become works of art. Also just through the use of a cutting torch I am searching for the sculpture in the solid steel.”

He works in Corten-steel, metal, stainless steel and copper for both indoors and outdoors. His preference goes towards monumental sculptures. The expression that he would like to give to a sculpture and his emotional condition are determinating factors to choose for one or another material. Each sculpture is an unique piece of Art, There are no casts made of the sculptures.

Exhibitions on different locations in Belgium, in Brussels (Belgium), Aardenburg (Holland), Hamburg(Germany), Paris, Toulouse (France )and Sioux Falls, (United States) and now for the first time in New York