Daan botlek biography of alberta

Pilgrim's work is shown here alongside the work of the four other nominees for the Dolf Henkes Award for Rotterdam-based artists: Daan Botlek.

Daan Botlek is a Rotterdam based illustrator and artist. His visions come to life through the uncommon and ambiguous geometric creations. He uses plain white man figure, which does not follow the rules of geometry or physics in various settings.

Street artist and illustrator Daan Botlek is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is popular for his unusual form of character-driven street art.

Daan Botlek is a Dutch illustrator and a visual artist who often works in urban environments. Inspired by Protagoras thought of ‘man is the measure of all things’, he uses the human form as a tool to measure existential situations by redefining ‘human scale’ and ‘rational thought’.

The base of Daan Botlek's work is the human being as a measuring tool for all that exists.

Daan Botlek is also one of the founders of the art project If Paradise Is Half As Nice (IPIHAN), focused on making art and organizing exhibitions in abandoned buildings, in less than four weeks: “These conditions make for a ‘pressure cooker’ effect: the fast exchange of ideas, the limited time to execute them, finding ways to realize them withou.