RENE RIETMEYER

Rene Rietmeyer, (1957) 
He is a Dutch artist and the initiator of the project ''Personal Structures'' which was first published in 2003 and has grown into a large project always presented at the Venice Biennale since 2011. His main subjects are ''Time-Space-Existence''. 

After figurative beginnings, Rietmeyer developed from 1997 on his own artform which he calls ''Boxes'': abstract, three-dimensional objects, which are presented mostly on the wall in multi-part, variable installations. Rietmeyer dedicates himself to making visible the subjectively felt effect of cities and landscapes, as well as of persons. This comes about with the purely abstract formal means of color, form, material, surface structure, composition and the installation in space. Rietmeyer's work is about expressing his own existence, about living a conscious life and creating an awareness about existence in others.

''My objects become what they become. Always. They do not aim to be ''beautiful'' or ''ugly'''. Each Box I make is an honest result of me, a reflection of my existence, of me at that moment in time and space, an object from that specific time in my life. Ultimately, my work is nothing other than the proof of my existence.'' - Rene Rietmeyer