The cartoon-like figures are tough and fragile, caricatured and vulnerable, emotional and closed. His use of materials is equally unorthodox. He combines cast concrete with neon and/or polished aluminium.
His imagery is close to the animated images in comics or the internet and have the same seductively simple form language but unexpected additions give the images a more complex identity. In their autonomous world, most images are closed and silent. Sander Buijk constructs and combines and labels the images to create an ambiguity that moves and amazes.
He himself says that the trigger for his work is the interaction between human relationships in the abstract, emotional or physical. The controversies present in these fascinate him. Images that are powerful in their playful simplicity. By giving his figures a strong tactility, he wants to seduce, touch and engage the viewer but in material and form he keeps his distance.
In their basic forms, many sculptures consist of combinations of concrete individual parts. These constructed and composed elements are given a special twist by unexpected additions. As the material plays a very important role in this, experimenting with material use is an important part of the design process. Here too, he seeks ambivalence, which should give the sculptures an extra layer.
What interests him in the creation of images is the search for a boundary.
Image that on the one hand communicates well visually and on the other hand retains my individuality, which is spontaneity and roughness.
Images that are not too narrative, stimulating the viewer to interpret.
Contradictions that seemingly belong together.
