Cicero’s toy car Print

Dutch visual artist Derek Scholte (1973) creates sculptures purely made of scrap materials, materials found in the streets, thrift shops, dust bins. vintage objects from flea markets and scrubby little shops. He loves vintage, antique stuff with a patina from years of use. things and objects with a previous life, a soul. The imperfections add to their beauty. His work has an almost film like realism. His characters come to life due to the combination of absurdity, humor, melancholy and rawness. Athough many people characterize his work as steampunkish movieprops or nostalgic toys, the work is not easy to put in one genre. Retrofuturism would be an appropriate genre, it most leans to Dieselpunk (or Petrolpunk). Probably the best way to describe his work is to say it represents “a tomorrow that never was”, or “a tomorrow that is likely to happen one day”. It also has Steampunk and Atompunk aesthetics. To put it in one sentence: Derek Scholte creates mixed media assemblage sculptures inspired by a sense of whimsical adventure of bygone and future eras…