Kunstenaar Tim Onderbeke en juweelontwerpster Louisa Maria Ponseele bundelen hun fascinatie voor herinnering, schoonheid en luxe in het artist book Spoons. Aan het strand creëerden ze glimmend eetgerei met gevonden materialen die ze in het zand afdrukten en goten in tin. Het resultaat is een prachtige reeks fragiele, poëtische objecten met titels als Spoon for stealing rainbows, Post Poseidon, Tea for two en Moule a gogo. 'De lepel is bovendien het instrument bij uitstek dat ook als sierobj...

Candles is a photographic essay by Tim Onderbeke. Fascinated by the sacred, ritual, and cerebral act of lighting a candle, the artist began collecting images of candles and candlesticks in an artistic or art-historical context. In Candles, Onderbeke uses his own work and that of others to research what he calls “the colour of darkness,” or negative space – a concept he borrowed from the Japanese writer and essayist Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Tanizaki describes this intense experience he ha...

The book Labyrinth exhibits a selection of extraordinary photographs by Tim Onderbeke (°1983) of architecture by Alfons Hoppenbrouwers, Juliaan Lampens, Paul Felix, Paul Meekels, Jul De Roover, Jan Tanghe, Lode Wouters, René Stapels, Victor Bourgeois and objects and sculptures by Roger Bonduel.

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I’m very sensitive to the ‘appearance’ of a building in an environment. As I wandered through the Flemish landscape, I was drawn to the aesthetics of these properties and to the host of ever...