Danny Scholtze solidifies ideas and intuition through his artistic practice, offering the opportunity to detach from prevailing meanings and identitie

An article written by Nora Benz

Just like the wind blows a sandhill and a tree drops its leaves on the ground in autumn, Dutch artist, sculptor, and architect Danny Scholtze composes his work by letting go. He lets go of thinking and instead completely trusts in himself and nature. Feeling, he emphasises, is the key element in creating a good composition. Therefore, he stays close to the originality of the process, trying to avoid overthinking. Instead of following temporary cultural thinking that is based on ever changing rules applicable in culture, he trusts in his natural intuition. As a result, the process of Scholtze’s creation is in constant motion. All ideas and institutions flow into the materials and solidify in the form of image constructions and structures. The resulting images are signs or open characters in a story that Scholtze looks at to feed the process and inspire himself. It is a fluid whole in which everything is constantly changing, no idea remains as it was, but transforms in the course of the process, fast or slow. As everything is created emotionally and intuitively, Scholtze does not apply a project-based way of working. Thus, to reflect distinction, he calls his work ‘projects’. These projects serve as vehicles for reflection and are simultaneously a poetry with references towards the unknown and the great void. Scholtze’s creating processes are thus the result of a complex combination of projecting, recording, thinking, observing, studying, being fascinated, feeling through and creating.

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