Sidney (Sit) Waerts

Nationality: NETHERLANDS <img style="vertical-align: bottom; margin-bottom: 3px; height:19px;" alt="nl" src="/img/icons/bootstrap4/flag/nl.png">
Date of birth: 1976
Artistic domains: Represented by a Gallery ,
Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists <a class="btn btn-outline-dark btn-sm mb-1" href="/en/artists?isGalleryPresented=1"> Artists presented by a gallery

Name: ARTMAJEUR
Brand: ARTMAJEUR
Rating: 4.9 (8711 reviews)

Switzerland •

Artist (Painting) •

Born 1976 •

Things Called Art

This ambiguity - between the temptation of beauty and our constant desire to abuse it - is the driving force behind the work of SIT.

The work of Dutch artist SIT is inevitably characterized by a sense of unease: his paintings and sculptures show the moment when beauty loses its raison d'être, and presents its darker side. Behind his figurative images hides a disturbing analysis of our time. SIT shows artificial characters, human beings and animals that remind us of the banality of everyday life, our obsession with appearance, look and materialism. These characters are the victims of our fast-paced visual society, of the technology of the visible - where human vanity stands in the way of a truly ethical life. Using black and white, SIT creates sober and melancholy images, as if man - while constantly believing in progress - had lost something along the way. But on the other hand, it deploys a maximum of effects: the rough textures and the fast lines seem dramatic and seductive, the sets are theatrical and grotesque.