Louis

Reith

Louis Reith skillfully produces drawings, collages, paintings, and installations, centering on print materials and handcrafted techniques. His abstract compositions draw inspiration from personal memories and nature, harmonizing the mechanical with the organic. Taking cues from the Bauhaus movement, Reith's minimalist architectural approach highlights the dynamic interaction of disparate elements. His mixed-media collages, constructed on upcycled book pages, showcase detailed patterns and forms, generally confined to a simple and subtle color scheme.

I initially used collage to cover mistakes in my ink drawings, and soon realised how closely this arranging technique relates to the process of graphic design and the ability to unravel the mysteries of layout, giving me the opportunity to create compositions including a fictional environment.

Louis Reith

Louis Reith is known for his monochrome mystical landscape constructions and Modernist-inspired geometrics. Influenced by architectural composition and reminiscent of the Bauhaus movement, who incorporated spirituality as part of their aesthetic process, Reith’s artist hand is subtly evident in a multimedia process that is both meticulous and delicate, as seen in his fine ink drawings, collaged shapes and re-valued images.

Through an early journey as a graphic designer in Belgium, Reith developed a love for printed matter and, in his time with Flemish artists, an understanding of the lyrical craft in arts; the functional aesthetic and the sensitive narrative. This merging of elements informs his approach to the technical aspects of form and the mythical qualities of the hand made.

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Louis Reith was born in 1983 in Hengelo, The Netherlands. He currently lives and works in Zetten, The Netherlands.

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