Tour & Taxis Brussels
20 & 21 May 2026

Features and seminars 2024

CONSTRUCTION IV by Conrad Willems

Conrad is a sculptor living in Ghent, Belgium. His work is characterised by geometry, repetition and modularity, resulting in a highly recognisable visual language. Conrad's two-dimensional work is strongly geometric. He draws freehand and without a preconceived plan. Repeating simple basic shapes hundreds of times creates imperfections that form their own patterns on a larger scale.

 

His sculptures have the same basic principles. Playing with modularity, this work is often composed of free-standing, individual pieces in natural stone, wood, brick or concrete. The installations are built live, with the building process becoming a performance and the resulting construction an installation work.

 

"Construction IV" consists of 500 sandstone building blocks and a framed hand-drawn construction drawing. The blocks are sawn and sanded into 10 different basic shapes, based on wooden toy blocks. These are built into a structure based on the construction drawing on black paper. The blocks are not attached in any way, but placed on top of each other in a specific construction sequence.

 

 

Portrait: Conrad Willems -  Photography © Alexander Popelier.
Photography sculptures © Cedric Verhelst.

 

www.conradwillems.com

1
2
3
4
5
Back to home page

architect
meets
innovations

Other editions 

A@W Kortrijk

15 & 16 May 2025

Other countries

In cooperation with

 

 

 

 

 

Design & Plan

Mediapartner

Media