Robbin Heyker

Robbin Heyker is a painter, veteran birdwatcher, amateur magician, and Dutchman currently living half of his time in Beijing. Typography design culture and the quick-fix-solutions he observes in the street lives of China serve as sources of inspiration for his work. As a birdwatcher and magician, he is fascinated by fleeting visions and illusions. His paintings are highly ambiguous, as images lacking key information. As introspective objects, his paintings are influenced by the elite painters since the Minimalist movement, including Robert Ryman, Raoul De Keyser, Blinky Palermo, and Daan van Golden. He takes their works as a departure point and, with a deadpan sense of humor, reconnects their withdrawal from representation to the phenomenal world.