For MARKET 2025, KANT presents a dialogue presentation featuring ceramic sculptures by Steen Ipsen and photographic monotypes by Joost Vandebrug.
These two artists intersect in their work and thought processes related to symmetry-breaking. In physics, symmetry-breaking is a disordered but symmetric state that collapses into an ordered but less symmetric state.
The departure points for both artists are handcrafted individual elements, hence Ipsen´s varying ceramic formations and Vandebrug´s pigment transfers or silver-gelatin prints on traditional Japanese Barite cards. By reassembling and constructing these elements, each artist forges a new whole where aesthetics, composition, and artistic process embody a fresh order and expression. Ipsen's circular, elliptical, and biomorphic shapes create complex and refined spatial structures, while Vandebrug’s poetic monotypes are fictive waterscapes and landscapes reshaped by recollection and memory. While differing in context, both practices reveal a systematic and conceptual approach embossed with refined craftsmanship.
Symmetry-breaking at a certain level of abstraction creates the conceptual space for experimental practice in science and art. The exhibition suggests a theoretical discourse and physical perspective on the topic.
