128 DECORATIVE & DESIGN / PROFILE


MARKO VUIJK design file


Strong geometry and straight lines form visual balance in the Marko Vuijk’s Storylines series.


For those in search of a more independ- ent creative crowd, Buda Island at this year’s Interieur provided rich pickings. The satellite site, located in a series of ware- houses at the heart of Kortrijk, was the natural home for smaller teams and solo practitioners of art and design. It was here that mondo*arc caught up with Dutch-born light artist Marko Vuijk, exhibiting with his Storylines series. At the simplest level, Vuijk uses lines of light and geometric planes to create ab- stract art pieces, but conceptually his work tackles much loftier themes that take in the nature of time and memories of space. “Every composition tells a little story, touching on themes and subjects we all can relate to,” Vuijk explains. “Some do so in a almost figurative way whereas others portray their story in a more abstract or metaphorical way.”


Pieces are all comprised of hand blown neon lines mounted on acrylic ‘canvasses’. “That’s why the series is called ‘Storylines’. I like to see it as almost poetry on the wall; the full story seen depends on the eye of the beholder and the emotion of the mo- ment.” ‘Timelines I’ and ‘Timelines II’ both take the form of neon strips that bisect a quartet of tinted acrylic circles at different points. “‘Timelines I’ is about our perception that time moves at different speeds, depending on our emotional state,” Vuijk says. “When we are enjoying ourselves or when we are busy time seems to move faster than when we are bored or unhappy. In reality, how- ever, time simply passes by at a constant speed and does not take notice of our emo- tions or perceptions.”


For its sister-piece, the circles are rear- ranged into two rows.


“‘Timelines II’ portrays that feeling we get when we see something that we know for a fact we have seen before. A déjà vu where time seems to freeze and we are stuck somewhere within that frozen moment.” Other works in the series offer composition- al variations on the same style to express different themes. ‘Chance I’ is a triptych with each panel evoking the relative nature of luck, perhaps best summed up by the subtitle: ‘Some- times you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains...’.


His landscapes series work in pairs to conjure figuratively portrayals of natural scenes. The long straight roads, fields and lakes depicted are inspired by the Bali countryside to which Vuijk moved in 2008. “Before opening up my studio I worked for the likes of Hilton International, ABN-Amro Bank and finally as marketing manager for


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