Echo Installation Solo Pink Wall Sculpture by Corine Vanvoorbergen

The ‘Echo’ installation is derived from the work of Rachel Ruysch. Ruysch was a 17th century Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands. She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style, and achieving international fame in her lifetime. At the height of her career, her work was even sold for a higher amount than Rembrandt’s. Being a (successful) woman in the art world at that time was a rarity. And it still is. This similarity and the fascination with flowers stimulated van Voorbergen to translate Rachel’s work into an abstract installation. Assisted by the Rijksmuseum, Van Voorbergen was able to transform a scan of one of Ruysch’s paintings into a digital algorithm that would transform the 2D painting into a 3D design that could be implemented in a computer-controlled CNC milling machine, which carved the texture from wood. With color pigments from the original painting, Van Voorbergen communicates with Ruysch’s work while translating them to the minimalistic, monochrome, and circular shaped objects. The intensity of the color is initiated by the depth of the carvings. Scattered pieces stimulate the viewer to take a step back and capture the whole of the installation in its abstract form with a subtle reference to a bouquet. The structured wooden panels are submerged in a monochrome pigmented epoxy. Van Voorbergen wanted to give the submergence of these machine-made landscapes a sense of eternalization.