Driftwoods - Drijfwoud / Bart Lunenburg

From the wooden foundations beneath Amsterdam, extending upstream to rural timber traditions in the German Rhineland, Driftwoods presents the artistic research of Bart Lunenburg, foregrounding the featured photographic series Nocturnes. Through a textual and visual essay that touches upon architectural excavation, medieval timber frames, colour archaeology, rural shadows, carpentry traditions and abandoned tools, Driftwoods reflects on the relations between local wooden architecture and the landscapes that supply their materials. Layering international with personal perspectives, Lunenburg introduces us to the seemingly disappearing knowledge and traditions that still shape the landscapes and houses we inhabit.

In an assemblage of various papers, inks and typography, the book embraces the notion of ‘driftwood’ as artistic framework, bundling washed-up historical references, personal observations and finished artworks that appear simultaneously adrift and fixated, decayed and restored, found and created. Available in English or Dutch.