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Biography
Nick Ervinck is a Belgian artist born in 1981 and brought up in Kortemark.
Biography
From the age of fifteen he studied at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Bruges and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent . He developed his own visual language which he new media combined with traditional sculpture. After graduation, he started a private team in his studio based in Lichtervelde.
Work
Ervinck creates, in his own words, a dialogue between craft and technology, and between the virtual and the physical. His shapes are inspired by the work of Henry Moore (1898–1986), Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) and Hans Arp (1886-1966). The futuristic blob architecture (a term of Greg Lynn) and the work of Zaha Hadid also inspire him. Ervinck often used the color yellow in his work, but also other colors. [1]
In 2008 he conceived on behalf of the Liedts-Meessens two terraces for which its site in Ghent Zebrastraat . The work was WARSUBEC. Afterwards followed monumental works in public and private collections, including: NARZTALPOKS (Our Farm, Bruges), LUIZADO (Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren ) IMAGROD (Milho, Ostend ) CIRBUATS (A large yellow "blob" in the form of a chair in the Zebra, Ghent, where a bar is located [2] ), EGNOABER ( Emmen ) [3] . For NK Cycling in Emmen 2015 Ervinck designed the trophy entitled ENNERNEISE. [3]
In 2016 he designed the trophy for the cycling race Gent-Wevelgem .
Ervinck investigating alongside more conventional work also the artistic possibilities of the digital revolution. The boundaries of the virtual space he wants to make tangible the complex forms of 3D prints that are impossible to do manually (such AGRIEBORZ 2009). Ervinck makes 3D printing, animation videos, digital and ordinary drawings interact with each other.
Awards
Ervink received from 2000 several awards and nominations:
- Stimulant, 2001.
- Provincial prize for visual arts of West Flanders , in 2002 (nominated).
- Godecharle for sculpture, 2005.
- Provnciale prize for visual arts of West Flanders , 2006 (laureate).
- Médiatine Prize of the city of Brussels in 2006.
- Cultuurprijs 2006-2007, municipality Kortemark, 2007.
- Award of New Media, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, 2008.
- Rodenbachfonds Award 2008 (winner).
- Golden phoenix, Culture Price of Houtland, 2011 (laureate).
- CoD + A Award - Merit winner in the category "Liturgical 'with IMAGROD, 2013