Conceptuel works

dated 1988 until 2022 (click on an image to enlarge an artwork)
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A circle that is too large or a square that is too small

2022

A too large circle of strip steel has been put in a square of the same kind of strip steel. But it can also be seen the other way around, then a square that is too small is stretched around a circle. Because the circle is too large or the square too small, both the square and the circle are distorted.
Themes of Nico Kok such as material properties, how is it made, what can be done with it, the geometric shapes circle and square, etc. are reflected in this work.

Square hanging on its diagonals

2022

A  square of round steel of 3mm is hanging from a nail on its diagonals (black cord of 3mm). If the diagonals were not resilient then this would not be possible there would be an unstable situation because the nail (the pivot point) is in the middle of the square. Due to the resilience of the cord, the square has dropped and the nail is now at the top of the square and a stable situation is created. The diagonals are bent and a pyramid is created in perspective.
Themes of Nico Kok are reflected in this work such as: square, use of materials, how is the work made, pyramids, what can be done with them,diagonals , etc.

Curved picture

2019

A picture of 50x50x0,3 cm on aluminium dibond. Edition: 10 (signed and numbered) Year: 1992/2019

Fifty sandline bricks and a wooden plank 3

1988

Fifty sandline bricks and a wooden plank

Nico Kok, image and mirror image

1992

Picture printed in  black/white and in image and in mirror image.

Transition of half circle to half square

1989

Concept: stainless steel, 12 x 28 x 40 cm

Curved circle

1994

Concept: curved circle of lead 3 x 12 x 25 cm

Stacking, 120 sandstone bricks and 9 strips of paper

1988

Stacking of 120 sandstone bricks with 9 strokes of paper

Curved bar of round steel 4

1990

Concept: bar of round steel 2 x 2 x 40 cm

Two curved bar of steel

1990

Concept: bar of steel  10 x 10 x 20 cm

Small circle and big circle, connected

1993

Concept: steel

Drawing of a half circle

1992

Material: paper, graphite of a pensel

Nineteen identical chains of 100 cm hung different

1991

Material: steel chain    58 x 100 cm

Ten massive blocks painted white of white marble, black granite, copper, zinc, aluminum, tin, lead, wood (merbau), spruce and steel

1988

Ten massive blocks painted white of white marble, black granite, copper, zinc, aluminum, tin, lead, wood (merbau), spruce and steel. 10 x 20 x 50 cm

Curved picture

1992

Concept: picture printed on tranparent foil, curved