Aldo van den Broek - (NL)

In the work of Aldo van den Broek, architecture becomes a vessel for memory, decay, and renewal. His paintings and installations emerge from a process of layering, erasing, and reconstruction — a continuous act of building and unbuilding. The surfaces he creates bear the physical traces of time: fragments of cardboard, mesh, soil, and paint fused into compositions that oscillate between structure and erosion.

Van den Broek approaches painting as an archaeological site. He reuses fragments of his own previous works, treating them as foundations for new beginnings. Each piece becomes a palimpsest, where the residues of former gestures, colors, and materials remain visible beneath newly applied layers — a visual history of persistence and transformation.

Working both inside and outside the studio, Van den Broek allows natural forces — rain, sunlight, wind — to intervene in his process. These uncontrolled elements blur the line between intention and accident, imbuing his constructions with the quiet inevitability of decay.

In dialogue with the themes of Captured & Composed, Van den Broek’s practice reflects on how images are shaped not only by the artist’s hand but by time itself — revealing that what erodes can also endure, and that every ruin carries within it the blueprint for renewal.