Hans Schuttenbeld

Hans Schuttenbeld (1991, The Netherlands) is a multi- and interdisciplinary maker who has been calling himself a psychedelic poet since the summer of 2021. His work has a wide scope, varying from graphic design to autonomous work, teaching and collective work. His practice operates at the intersection of graphic design and relational autonomous art.

Schuttenbeld's core discipline revolves around ‘the railway’ ( drawing, calligraphy, painting). He experiences the direct feedback loop between the action and the visual result as a powerful playing field. This linked to themes such as control versus spontaneity /rhythm and patterns/ material and technique. Together they provide a vision of the process: a space enclosed in time which listening gives direction to the next action.

By bringing the abstracted calligraphic principles into the realm of painting, the carefully applied sequences of brushstrokes meet the universe of color. Using the technique of adding a transparant layer of paint on top of the underpainting, a dialogue between the layers is called into life. The direction of the strokes, their color, transparency and form are in conversation with each other. This is a rich and unpredictable process that gradually unveils before my eyes as the painting slowly develops.