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Like Cage, for whom silence released a flood of sound, for de Rooij from the magistration of blankness comes an outpouring of reference. Cognition loathes a vacuum and in noise organizes pattern and meaning. Finds pleasure in such sterility totemized. De Rooij's is the cold grammar of industry.
See too, Willem de Rooij at Arnolfini , “Seven Reeds” at Overduin & Co., Merlin Carpenter at MD 72, David Lieske at MUMOK