Vincent Rang
Amsterdam based Visual Artist
Atelier NDSM-plein 61, Kunststad, NDSM LOODS
Vincent Rang (1989) is an experimental visual artist working primarily with moving image as a medium. He believes in the power of visual and audio as a door into another world. He explores themes of scale, time experience, natural patterns and seeks for a symbiosis with audio.
His gaze is often directed towards the natural dances of life. He observes, captures and re-arranges these various patterns, from wind patterns, water currents, blooming flowers, landscapes and rock formations, to create abstract audio-visual experiences, offering the viewer enough space to find their own truth and interpretation in the work, and most importantly, to feel them.
One of his ongoing live project involves using a water-filled aquarium to create ever evolving moving paintings, using inks, plants and light. This lead to the audio-visual album Home in collaboration with Boris Acket, which he performed in various places in The Netherlands, such as Het Muziekgebouw and the Nxt Museum.
In 2022, Rang initiated the project Monolith, in collaboration with pianist Helena Basilova and sound artist Kenny Kneefel. Monolith is part installation, part performance, that dives deeper into the theme of time and seeks to create a deep-time experience of rock formations, using iron salt chemicals reacting inside an aquarium filled with sodium silicate.
In 2023, Rang developed ‘Arbor’ in collaboration with NAP Labs and premiered it during art festival Schemerlicht. A software which creates procedurally generated growths and aims to inspire an experience of time on a larger scale, and in doing so, spark a renewed sense of connection with our collective past and our distant generational future.
Rang has collaborated with a variety of artists such as London based ambient label Astral Industries, the Amsterdam based orchestra NBE, visual artist Boris Acket, electronic musician Multicast Dynamics, pianist Helena Basilova and has performed and exhibited in The Muziekgebouw, Fiber Festival, Nxt Museum, The Rest is Noise, Schemerlicht Festival, ADE, ROAM in De Doelen, Waking Life, Fifty Labs Brussels and KGR’n Tokyo. In 2021, Rang co-founded the Foundation for the Vague Arts. A non-profit based in Amsterdam which promotes experimentation between (electronic) musicians and visuals artists through a series of bi-annual events in Amsterdam.