"Broken" Painting by Ronald Wigman

He trained as a visual artist and graphic designer after a short career as an art teacher. He has also always tried to further develop his own handwriting and visual language in commissions. His fascination for floor plans led to many top views in his work and to the acceptance that for him painting is a two-dimensional expression. Now visible through the use of silhouettes in his work, where the rectangle and the square in a painting connect two worlds.

(He studied visual art and graphic design after a short career as art teacher. In assignments he has always tried to develop his own handwriting and his own visual language. His fascination for floor plans led to top views in many of his works and to the (acceptance that painting for him is a two-dimensional expression. Nowadays visible through the use of silhouettes in his work, in which the rectangle and the square in a painting are connecting two different worlds.)

Here's a quote about his work:
"Like pedestrians who walk without any certain destination, Wigman “mapped” his personal travel in reading reality. This mapping is not only done by the mind that formulates concepts, but also involving the body and soul that has desire, dreams, and enjoying the complexity of signs. The result is a “map” that describes structure and its “subconscious” level at the same time: a map that paradoxically reveals what cannot be mapped. Wigman's art is a “poetic cartography” which compiles the power of design, the richness of literary content, and the charm of poetry".
(Arif Bagus Prasetyo, curator, alumni IWP University of Iowa, United States)

• Nationality: NETHERLANDS
• Date of birth : 1954
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists