page_title: Don Satijn
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Don Satijn / Work
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Schiedam, Plantage. Kunstwerk "Lines XXII" van Don Satijn. Schiedam/The Netherlands.
context_page_description: Don Satijn is a Dutch musician and artist, lecturer at the Codarts, who works as sculptor and installation artist.
context_section_description: As visual artist Satijn has realized a series of performances, sculptor, and installations. His main theme is the geometric constructions of lines and squares. Satijn (2015) explains:
  Since 1980 I'm working on long duration projects all based on squares and cubes. Main goal is to get hold on infinity........ In very simple structural combinations I find billions of possibilities. For me this is a metaphore for infinity. "If in nothing (a choice for black or white; material or non-material) already we can find endless amounts of possibilities, how complex then is the universe, and how humble we should be."
  In the early 1990s he developed all this works towards the concept of The Stone Company, with and exhibition of the work in the RAM gallery in 1995. About his working process of Rutger van Houten explained that this "process that takes place between idea and object may be described as an intuitive system, guided by a love and fascination for variation options and harmony." And more in general about his labour:
  The first thing that strikes one about Don Satijn’s works are their stark austerity and apparent simplicity. All his creations, however, are the result of a labour-intensive process. A process in which rules apply that the artist has set himself, conditions the works must eventually meet. He follows a binary system, by which a space is there or it isn’t, it is filled in, or it is open. Within the limits of his own rules he explores possible variations by means of this system. Thus he undertakes a quest for variation options from one single starting point. He is especially fascinated by the scale the number of options takes on, sometimes bordering upon the infinite. By losing himself in his explorations Satijn tries to point us to the infinity and elusiveness of the surrounding cosmos. For him the process of construction is at least as important as the final work of art.
  In 2010 Satijn developed the catalogue, entitled Don Satijn 1990 - 2010, which contained an overview of two decades of this sculptures and installations.
caption: Lines XXII, Plantage, Schiedam 2009.[4]
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