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‘It’s so big you have to take a distance!’
Thomas Trum works at the intersection of art and design. His approach is abstract and analytical, experimenting with different painting techniques and surfaces. He uses, for example, enlarged felt-tip pens and a machine originally designed for marking roads. The monochrome abstract works are made up of single lines. The combination of the line and its technical feasibility are the base of his work. To Trum it is effort over difficulty, when it comes to creating an image. He likes the idea that the works seem to make themselves and at the same time convey a physical experience. For Unfair™, Thomas used the largest possible felt-tip pen, so large that you can only read the work from a considerable (and safe) distance.

Background
Thomas Trum (1989) lives and works in s’-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. His works have been shown at a variety of galleries and museums like Het Nieuw Instituut, Art Rotterdam and Het Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. In 2018 Trum won The Loyens & Loeff Emerging Artist Award, which was given to the most promising presentation at Unfair18.


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Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, onepurpleline, 2019

Thomas Trum – Onepurpleline (2019)

Available works by Thomas Trum

Thomas Trum
Two purple lines 13 (2020)

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, two purple lines 13 (2020)
Thomas Trum
Two orange lines by two orange lines (2020)

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, two orange lines by two orange lines (2020)
Thomas Trum
Two blue lines 11 (2019)

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, two blue lines 11 (2019)
Thomas Trum
Onepurpleline (2019)

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas-trum_onepurpleline_2019_417x355cm_acryl-and-glycerine_copyright-jhoeko_web-2048x1365 (1)
Thomas Trum
Colourchangingline 09 (2019)

Photo by Thomas Trum

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, colourchangingline 09, 2019
Thomas Trum
Onegreenline 6 (2018)

Gouache on paper

106,5 x 80 cm

Photo by Thomas Trum

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, onegreenline 6, 2018
Thomas Trum
Onepinkline 11 (2019)

250 x 190 cm

Photo by Thomas Trum

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, onepinkline 11, 2019
Thomas Trum
Speedbump painting 1.3 (2018)

100 x 70 cm

Photos by Thomas Trum, Mini Galerie

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, speedbump painting 1.3, 2018 Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, tentoonstellingsopzet the one day show, 2019
Thomas Trum
Onepurpleline 8 (sketch of Onepurpleline 6) (2019)

104 x 80 cm

In collection of Noordbrabants Museum

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, onepurpleline 8 (sketch of onepurpleline 6), 2019
Thomas Trum
Twoorangelines (2018)

Acryl and glycerine

15 x 2 m

Photos by Ronald Smits

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, twoorangelines, 2018 Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, twoorangelines [close-up], 2018
Thomas Trum
Twopurplelines (2019)

Acryl and glycerine

417 x 355 cm

Photo by Jhoeko

Unfair Amsterdam - Thomas trum, onepurpleline, 2019

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