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My Graduation master thesis ‘UNLESS YOU REMOVE: Objects that ask for an action’ on show in the following events and venues: - It has been exhibited at the show ‘Up Close, Wide Open’ in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2012. - It has been presented by Neutra Ediciones at ‘JustMad: Emerging Art Fair’ in Madrid from February 14th to 17th, 2013. - It will be shown as part of the exhibition ‘Diseño a secas’ at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville on June 8th-9th, 2013. “Usually creating an object involves the addition of material. In this project by Luis Gómez Barquín, it’s the other way around. It is all about removing the excess to slowly tailor it to individual preference. In ‘Unless you Remove’, he has applied this method to a chair and a rug, but stresses that the idea can be applied to almost anything. In the beginning, his chair is not a chair yet. It simply has the potential to become a chair. It is a cube made up of layer upon layer of thin perforated wood. Only by removing parts of the layers, does it slowly ‘degenerate’ into a chair. In the same way, Barquín’s blanket starts off as a heavy, inflexible, thick mound of woven textiles. By picking away at the cloth it is transformed into a functional blanket. This process has been designed to take time. Lots of time. Barquín believes that relatively simple, repetitive tasks have a healing effect. ‘People nowadays think too much. Every time you physically remove something from the object, it’s like getting rid of some mental clutter’, he says”. Credits: this quoted text by Annemarie Hoeve; art direction of these two pictures by Petra Janssen; these two photographs by Femke Rijerman. All works © Luis Gómez-Barquín Lanne-Lenne. All rights reserved. Visit also my main webpage www.lanne-lenne.com for more info and projects.

My Graduation master thesis ‘UNLESS YOU REMOVE: Objects that ask for an action’ on show in the following events and venues:

- It has been exhibited at the show ‘Up Close, Wide Open’ in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2012.

- It has been presented by Neutra Ediciones at ‘JustMad: Emerging Art Fair’ in Madrid from February 14th to 17th, 2013.

- It will be shown as part of the exhibition ‘Diseño a secas’ at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville on June 8th-9th, 2013.

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“Usually creating an object involves the addition of material. In this project by Luis Gómez Barquín, it’s the other way around. It is all about removing the excess to slowly tailor it to individual preference. In ‘Unless you Remove’, he has applied this method to a chair and a rug, but stresses that the idea can be applied to almost anything. In the beginning, his chair is not a chair yet. It simply has the potential to become a chair. It is a cube made up of layer upon layer of thin perforated wood. Only by removing parts of the layers, does it slowly ‘degenerate’ into a chair. In the same way, Barquín’s blanket starts off as a heavy, inflexible, thick mound of woven textiles. By picking away at the cloth it is transformed into a functional blanket. This process has been designed to take time. Lots of time. Barquín believes that relatively simple, repetitive tasks have a healing effect. ‘People nowadays think too much. Every time you physically remove something from the object, it’s like getting rid of some mental clutter’, he says”.

Credits: this quoted text by Annemarie Hoeve; art direction of these two pictures by Petra Janssen; these two photographs by Femke Rijerman. All works © Luis Gómez-Barquín Lanne-Lenne. All rights reserved.

Visit also my main webpage www.lanne-lenne.com for more info and projects.

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‘Unless…’ cutouts | 2012 Handmade cutouts to detail and represent some of the objects that form the family of pieces ‘Unless you remove’ resulting from the project -a lamp, a chair, a blanket- by removing material from several sheets of superimposed semi-transparent papers…

‘Unless…’ cutouts | 2012

Handmade cutouts to detail and represent some of the objects that form the family of pieces ‘Unless you remove’ resulting from the project -a lamp, a chair, a blanket- by removing material from several sheets of superimposed semi-transparent papers…

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Curvaceous | Limburg curved asparagus | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011 Nowadays we just see perfect vegetables on the market because the imperfect ones stay in the farm, although taste and quality are the same in both cases. The “de Poshoof” family farm just set up a Bed & Breakfast so they can give the delicious but “imperfect” curved asparagus to their guest inside a cozy and home-made package to have a snack during their visits around Maastricht; a package that the guests receive as a business present from the “de Poshoof” farm to be used afterward in their daily life as often as they want since it can be cleaned in the washing machine. By transferring the shape of the harvesting land into the package, the curved asparagus become more sculptural when they are faced to the straight lines and surfaces of the wrapping, a wrapping made out of two sewn layers -a polypropylene plastic foil as a dish and an organic cotton fabric as a napkin- to help people to re-discover again what nature really produces. (+) My specialty is the curved asparagus from  “de Poshoof” farm in Maastricht. I found terrible the fact that the farmer cannot sell the curved asparagus because of market reasons. This family farm just set up a Bed and Breakfast and they have to provide a nice breakfast to their guests every morning. My product is a take-away package to have an asparagus-based breakfast and make the most of the day around Maastricht, by using origami shapes for the package, with straight lines and surfaces to empower the curved shape of the asparagus, and to transfer the shape of the harvesting terrain into the package as well. This take-away package works as a 2-sided eating kit: one side is made out of plastic to have a hygienic surface to eat; the other side is made out of fabric to have a napkin to clean your fingers. Both layers of the package are sewn together and can be easily cleaned in the washing machine to reuse it as often as you want. You, as a guest of the Bed and Breakfast, will receive this breakfast package as a present the first day and you will take it at home to use it whenever you like instead of throwaway aluminium foil. Since the package has the name of the farm, every time you use it, you will remember what a wonderful time you spent there and maybe plan a new visit. *Making by folding A4-size paper templates: Some of the booklet pages are posted now: Mentored by Dick van Hoff

Curvaceous | Limburg curved asparagus | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

Nowadays we just see perfect vegetables on the market because the imperfect ones stay in the farm, although taste and quality are the same in both cases. The “de Poshoof” family farm just set up a Bed & Breakfast so they can give the delicious but “imperfect” curved asparagus to their guest inside a cozy and home-made package to have a snack during their visits around Maastricht; a package that the guests receive as a business present from the “de Poshoof” farm to be used afterward in their daily life as often as they want since it can be cleaned in the washing machine. By transferring the shape of the harvesting land into the package, the curved asparagus become more sculptural when they are faced to the straight lines and surfaces of the wrapping, a wrapping made out of two sewn layers -a polypropylene plastic foil as a dish and an organic cotton fabric as a napkin- to help people to re-discover again what nature really produces.

(+) My specialty is the curved asparagus from  “de Poshoof” farm in Maastricht. I found terrible the fact that the farmer cannot sell the curved asparagus because of market reasons. This family farm just set up a Bed and Breakfast and they have to provide a nice breakfast to their guests every morning. My product is a take-away package to have an asparagus-based breakfast and make the most of the day around Maastricht, by using origami shapes for the package, with straight lines and surfaces to empower the curved shape of the asparagus, and to transfer the shape of the harvesting terrain into the package as well. This take-away package works as a 2-sided eating kit: one side is made out of plastic to have a hygienic surface to eat; the other side is made out of fabric to have a napkin to clean your fingers. Both layers of the package are sewn together and can be easily cleaned in the washing machine to reuse it as often as you want. You, as a guest of the Bed and Breakfast, will receive this breakfast package as a present the first day and you will take it at home to use it whenever you like instead of throwaway aluminium foil. Since the package has the name of the farm, every time you use it, you will remember what a wonderful time you spent there and maybe plan a new visit.

*Making by folding A4-size paper templates:

Some of the booklet pages are posted now:

Mentored by Dick van Hoff

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Public LightShading | Shared infrastructure | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

The history of Limburg will be told by shadows. Remembering the date of an important event of the neighbourhood in the past, the Sun -the most public light ever- will create a meaningful and recognizable shadow just at one specific moment of one day of the year. Inspired by the signage pollution in the streets, a new object will appear in the neighbourhood, an object made out of several “empty” sign elements around a real traffic sign where neighbours and new inhabitants can exchange information or find what they need, a physical board that will show and support the lively life of the neighbourhood. An object that, for instance, will reproduce the shadow of a no longer existing coalmine tower every year in the day when the mining industry stopped its activity in that enclave…

(+) The signage pollution in the streets is a problem that cities in are trying to remove. But for me, it’s possible to turn it to a new perspective without removing anything. Immediately, the sculptures of Alexander Calder came to my mind. What if I use this mess of signs to create or visualize something else? What if with these elements I can tell and show the history of the region? Of course, a lighting project is mainly aimed to think on the dark hours of the day, but these objects are also present during daylight. By combining two unique features of the Limburg region, I can create a meaningful action related with lighting: these two uniquenesses are the latitude of the place and the common regional heritage of Limburg. With the solar graphic of the latitude I can place and draw the shadow of an object on a specific day in a specific hour. So, I want to show the uniqueness of the Limburgish region by using the uniqueness of the latitude. Using these signage elements that don’t have any order, they become special, or better, their shadows become special just one day, in one specific hour, in one specific minute of the year, because only in that precise moment, the composition of these shadows creates a meaningful shape, and the shape itself is telling the story.

Some pages of my research booklet on the experiments and compositions with signage shadows are shown next:

Mentored by Thomas Lommee

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LandLinescape | Invisible infrastructure of ideas | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011 Sunken lanes, hollow roads, military fortifications, highways, former defensive walls, harvesting lands… nature or man-made lines within the countryside of Maastricht where the landscape can be discovered on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. A forgotten large-scale “linescape” with a strong sculptural character that makes you feel really embraced by nature, in direct contact with earth, inside a big piece of non-deliberate landart. A personal research on “linescape” given expression to a series of postcards -a mapping series, a lines series, a personal intervention series and a trip series- that will travel by mail around the world, looking for being promoted, discovered and experienced as a reference of a unique landscape of The Netherlands. The five series of my “linescape” postcard collection are shown next: *Man-made line series *Nature-made line series *Trips series *Personal intervention series *Mapping series (+) Impressed by the sunken lanes around Maastricht, my project is not about “landscape” but “linescape”.  I find it very artistic and sculpture-related. I have gone several times to Maastricht and surroundings to check personally these sunken lanes in the landscape but also other “man-made” lines that I consider very related to each other, such as the military fort of Maastricht or the former defensive wall of the city. I was taking pictures every 30 steps while I was making these promenades to express the feelings you have when you follow these lines, and how you are discovering the landscape on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. In each line, I found something interesting in one point (invisible landmarks) because a line is made out of points: a small chapel, a water fountain… So, how can I highlight the landscape of Limburg and put it into value? What if this area is in a way a big artwork of Michael Heizer for instance? And what if in the end I make a point intervention on one point of one of these lines that embodies and reflects even more this sculpture character and the rest of the features, such as the feeling of been embraced by nature, direct contact with earth, partially vision of the landscape, etc.? Here, some pages of the research booklet: Mentored by Rianne Makkink

LandLinescape | Invisible infrastructure of ideas | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

Sunken lanes, hollow roads, military fortifications, highways, former defensive walls, harvesting lands… nature or man-made lines within the countryside of Maastricht where the landscape can be discovered on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. A forgotten large-scale “linescape” with a strong sculptural character that makes you feel really embraced by nature, in direct contact with earth, inside a big piece of non-deliberate landart. A personal research on “linescape” given expression to a series of postcards -a mapping series, a lines series, a personal intervention series and a trip series- that will travel by mail around the world, looking for being promoted, discovered and experienced as a reference of a unique landscape of The Netherlands.

The five series of my “linescape” postcard collection are shown next:

*Man-made line series

*Nature-made line series

*Trips series

*Personal intervention series

*Mapping series


(+) Impressed by the sunken lanes around Maastricht, my project is not about “landscape” but “linescape”.  I find it very artistic and sculpture-related. I have gone several times to Maastricht and surroundings to check personally these sunken lanes in the landscape but also other “man-made” lines that I consider very related to each other, such as the military fort of Maastricht or the former defensive wall of the city. I was taking pictures every 30 steps while I was making these promenades to express the feelings you have when you follow these lines, and how you are discovering the landscape on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. In each line, I found something interesting in one point (invisible landmarks) because a line is made out of points: a small chapel, a water fountain… So, how can I highlight the landscape of Limburg and put it into value? What if this area is in a way a big artwork of Michael Heizer for instance? And what if in the end I make a point intervention on one point of one of these lines that embodies and reflects even more this sculpture character and the rest of the features, such as the feeling of been embraced by nature, direct contact with earth, partially vision of the landscape, etc.?

Here, some pages of the research booklet:

Mentored by Rianne Makkink

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Street shelter | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

The theme for this assignment is the analyze of the sidewalks and its “extensions”. People usually uses a limited area of the sidewalks, because they want to walk the shortest and the quickest way. Therefore, there are a lot of surfaces on the sidewalks which pedestrians don’t use and to define the boundary between the busy and the uncrowded zones, we should look specially at the street furniture; for instance, the space between streetlamps is not used since the poles create a virtual fence on the street, and so on…

How or what can I design to give much more uses, action and life to these expanding zones? With my proposal, I want people to use these areas and not only to walk through them, but stay even for a while. The concept of street shelter can support this idea since the use of the shelter implies to stop under it during a variable amount of time, for instance when it’s raining. 


The idea of the street shelter also comes to solve the tension when you use those semi-public / semi-private shelters like the ones in the front gardens of houses… My shelter stands in a real public space, then there is not any tension to use it.

This “cloud” is different because it protects you from the rain in winter and from the burning sun in summer. Made out by rotational molding technique, the cloud-shape hollow object is attached into the pole of a streetlamp. Thanks to this hollow feature, the cloud is less heavy than the common traffic signage elements and the effect of the wind on it is also less damaging for the streetlamp.

The attachment system is thought to support the effect of the wind and to avoid the cloud to turn around the pole. The outer surface of the cloud has a thin line that follows the outline as a wrinkle for the rain water to falls down and to get a dry space under the cloud when it’s raining. This line writes “There is no such as thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather”, a quote by John Ruskin.

Mentored by Dick van Hoff

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The “story” of a pile of waste | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

I found my “fascination” for this assignment the first working day… I just put one step on my street and saw a huge pile of garbage in front of my house. From that moment, I kept on walking to the market but looking carefully at all the pieces of garbage on the street. My research has been focused on the first day pile of waste, analyzing it every week… but also analyzing its surroundings, like the restaurant, the street furniture, the bins, the animals, the weather…

I want to show my own relation and experiences with the garbage during the three-months term: my feelings with the waste has guided me during the research and each week, the scenario was the same but the content changed every single day. Once I even took part in the “cleaning” task in my street, with a vacuum cleaner, I wanted to treat the street like my home, and take care of it. There was a crucial moment during the research when five weeks before ending the term, the street containers in my street were broken and then, I decided not to throw away my own garbage and live with it inside my room. I analyzed every piece of waste I produced to be aware of the amount of garbage I create normally. The idea of keeping my waste next to me drove me to think in a different way to storage it. That’s why I used this vacuum bag system because with it, I get less space as possible and I can really check the amount of waste I produce in one month, in one year…

The book shows my weekly approach to my street and the garbage on it, in a chronological way since there is no relation among what I found each day during the term. Here, some pages of the book:

Mentored by Rianne Makkink

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Fast Fruit | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011 A grocery shop on wheels that expands to random spots on the street. It uses wheeled boxes to sell its seasonal vegetables with temporary vendors. The seller gives his/her ID and receives a 24hours vendor license from the Fast Fruit owner. This covers the sellers’ insurance and registration. Unemployed people (students, people looking for a side job, people who stay temporary in a city…) apply for a box at Fast Fruit. The seller receives a box+vegetables, and a take-out kit (wheels, handle, chalk) and after assembling, he/she rolls out, finds a spot in the street, and draws place+prices around the box with the chalk. The benefits for the seller is a flexible job, free spot selection and daily payment; for the owner is an enlargement of the fixed shop, income percentage (70% shop / 30% seller); for the costumer is an easy access to local fruit and direct interaction with the seller; for the city is more life and social activity on the streets; for the farmer is a direct relation with local selling points. At the end of the workday, the seller brings the box back to the shop owner, gets his/her ID back and receives the payment depending on the sold amount of vegetables. Mentored by Thomas Lommee | Group project with Irma Földényi and Lynn Schammel

Fast Fruit | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

A grocery shop on wheels that expands to random spots on the street. It uses wheeled boxes to sell its seasonal vegetables with temporary vendors.

The seller gives his/her ID and receives a 24hours vendor license from the Fast Fruit owner. This covers the sellers’ insurance and registration. Unemployed people (students, people looking for a side job, people who stay temporary in a city…) apply for a box at Fast Fruit. The seller receives a box+vegetables, and a take-out kit (wheels, handle, chalk) and after assembling, he/she rolls out, finds a spot in the street, and draws place+prices around the box with the chalk. The benefits for the seller is a flexible job, free spot selection and daily payment; for the owner is an enlargement of the fixed shop, income percentage (70% shop / 30% seller); for the costumer is an easy access to local fruit and direct interaction with the seller; for the city is more life and social activity on the streets; for the farmer is a direct relation with local selling points. At the end of the workday, the seller brings the box back to the shop owner, gets his/her ID back and receives the payment depending on the sold amount of vegetables.

Mentored by Thomas Lommee | Group project with Irma Földényi and Lynn Schammel

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3… 2… 1… (street) ACTION!!!

As part of one of my “street” assignments this second trimester… I had to perform an action on the street related with my research… I selected “Sweeping Up” by Joseph Beuys but in my case, I was taken my street as my home… so I cleaned it in the same way, with same devices, with same good care…

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Merging functions | My Christmas “short” assignment | 2011 Inspired by buildings and bridges constructions and their use of basic cantilevering structures, the table top stands at any position along the wooden pole just relying on its own weight, without any mechanical connection. Mentored by Jan Boelen

Merging functions | My Christmas “short” assignment | 2011

Inspired by buildings and bridges constructions and their use of basic cantilevering structures, the table top stands at any position along the wooden pole just relying on its own weight, without any mechanical connection.

Mentored by Jan Boelen

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Spanish sunlight | My 1st Term Finals | 2010

WHAT?
A silkscreen printing in my bed linen and wall to emulate the effect of the Spanish light, where every window has a blind to protect you from the sun.

WHY?
Here in Eindhoven there is not too much sun, and I miss the light of my native land. With this printing I will feel a bit closer to my Spanish sunlight.

HOW?
Two different patterns are printed in the bed linen, made out of two kind of paint, sunsense and glow-in-the-dark, which react with or without light.

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With this assignment I have been thinking on the light, specially the Spanish sunlight. When I had to “invite” an artist to do something in my room, I chose Joaquín Sorolla because his paintings always show the light of our native land. This was the starting point to think about my final proposal… something related with light and also with my window, where I have these horrible and broken mosquito nettings that I hate actually. So eventually, I decided to work with light… not making a lamp but playing with its effect. Using paints which react with light or with the lack of it, I am more aware of its presence and its potential because I see one of the layers only with direct light, and the other one when there is no light anymore. Now, with these patterns in my bed linen I feel closer to my Spanish light because the patterns evoke the shadows of the blinds, an essential object in Spain to protect you from the sun.

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Mentor: Jan Boelen

2 years ago 

Bending a piece of paper | My 1st Term Finals | 2010 WHAT?A bedside table for my guest to place the tourist guide and a candle during his/her visit at my home and then I could take it away when my guest is gone. WHY?We (the students) live in small rooms so I thought it would be nice if I could give a tiny object to my guest to make this short stay more comfortable. HOW?Trying to have the most neutral piece, this object is made out of white steel sheet, bent several time like a piece of paper to get a friendly shape. · · I decided what to do with this metal assignment during the first weeks of lessons when I had a guest in my place. I thought it would be really nice if with an object, I could make more comfortable his stay with me in my house. It’s a bedside table to attach it below the mattress where my guest can place the Holland guide and light a candle before falling asleep after a long tourist day. Evoking the cross sections of metal beams which are self-supporting construction elements, they don’t need anything else to fulfill their function. I made this piece with white steel sheet to get the most neutral object to fit with every different personalities of my guests, bent it by hand to have a friendly shape that I can close and take it away when my guest is gone.  · · Mentor: Dick van Hoff

Bending a piece of paper | My 1st Term Finals | 2010

WHAT?
A bedside table for my guest to place the tourist guide and a candle during his/her visit at my home and then I could take it away when my guest is gone.

WHY?
We (the students) live in small rooms so I thought it would be nice if I could give a tiny object to my guest to make this short stay more comfortable.

HOW?
Trying to have the most neutral piece, this object is made out of white steel sheet, bent several time like a piece of paper to get a friendly shape.

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I decided what to do with this metal assignment during the first weeks of lessons when I had a guest in my place. I thought it would be really nice if with an object, I could make more comfortable his stay with me in my house. It’s a bedside table to attach it below the mattress where my guest can place the Holland guide and light a candle before falling asleep after a long tourist day. Evoking the cross sections of metal beams which are self-supporting construction elements, they don’t need anything else to fulfill their function. I made this piece with white steel sheet to get the most neutral object to fit with every different personalities of my guests, bent it by hand to have a friendly shape that I can close and take it away when my guest is gone. 

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Mentor: Dick van Hoff

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Look “in between” the lines…
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“My scarf” | My performance proposal for Tiyying Liu’s lecture + workshop | Source programme | 17.11.10

2 years ago 

My Graduation master thesis ‘UNLESS YOU REMOVE: Objects that ask for an action’ on show in the following events and venues: - It has been exhibited at the show ‘Up Close, Wide Open’ in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2012. - It has been presented by Neutra Ediciones at ‘JustMad: Emerging Art Fair’ in Madrid from February 14th to 17th, 2013. - It will be shown as part of the exhibition ‘Diseño a secas’ at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville on June 8th-9th, 2013. “Usually creating an object involves the addition of material. In this project by Luis Gómez Barquín, it’s the other way around. It is all about removing the excess to slowly tailor it to individual preference. In ‘Unless you Remove’, he has applied this method to a chair and a rug, but stresses that the idea can be applied to almost anything. In the beginning, his chair is not a chair yet. It simply has the potential to become a chair. It is a cube made up of layer upon layer of thin perforated wood. Only by removing parts of the layers, does it slowly ‘degenerate’ into a chair. In the same way, Barquín’s blanket starts off as a heavy, inflexible, thick mound of woven textiles. By picking away at the cloth it is transformed into a functional blanket. This process has been designed to take time. Lots of time. Barquín believes that relatively simple, repetitive tasks have a healing effect. ‘People nowadays think too much. Every time you physically remove something from the object, it’s like getting rid of some mental clutter’, he says”. Credits: this quoted text by Annemarie Hoeve; art direction of these two pictures by Petra Janssen; these two photographs by Femke Rijerman. All works © Luis Gómez-Barquín Lanne-Lenne. All rights reserved. Visit also my main webpage www.lanne-lenne.com for more info and projects.

My Graduation master thesis ‘UNLESS YOU REMOVE: Objects that ask for an action’ on show in the following events and venues:

- It has been exhibited at the show ‘Up Close, Wide Open’ in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2012.

- It has been presented by Neutra Ediciones at ‘JustMad: Emerging Art Fair’ in Madrid from February 14th to 17th, 2013.

- It will be shown as part of the exhibition ‘Diseño a secas’ at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville on June 8th-9th, 2013.

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“Usually creating an object involves the addition of material. In this project by Luis Gómez Barquín, it’s the other way around. It is all about removing the excess to slowly tailor it to individual preference. In ‘Unless you Remove’, he has applied this method to a chair and a rug, but stresses that the idea can be applied to almost anything. In the beginning, his chair is not a chair yet. It simply has the potential to become a chair. It is a cube made up of layer upon layer of thin perforated wood. Only by removing parts of the layers, does it slowly ‘degenerate’ into a chair. In the same way, Barquín’s blanket starts off as a heavy, inflexible, thick mound of woven textiles. By picking away at the cloth it is transformed into a functional blanket. This process has been designed to take time. Lots of time. Barquín believes that relatively simple, repetitive tasks have a healing effect. ‘People nowadays think too much. Every time you physically remove something from the object, it’s like getting rid of some mental clutter’, he says”.

Credits: this quoted text by Annemarie Hoeve; art direction of these two pictures by Petra Janssen; these two photographs by Femke Rijerman. All works © Luis Gómez-Barquín Lanne-Lenne. All rights reserved.

Visit also my main webpage www.lanne-lenne.com for more info and projects.

‘Unless…’ cutouts | 2012 Handmade cutouts to detail and represent some of the objects that form the family of pieces ‘Unless you remove’ resulting from the project -a lamp, a chair, a blanket- by removing material from several sheets of superimposed semi-transparent papers…

‘Unless…’ cutouts | 2012

Handmade cutouts to detail and represent some of the objects that form the family of pieces ‘Unless you remove’ resulting from the project -a lamp, a chair, a blanket- by removing material from several sheets of superimposed semi-transparent papers…

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Curvaceous | Limburg curved asparagus | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011 Nowadays we just see perfect vegetables on the market because the imperfect ones stay in the farm, although taste and quality are the same in both cases. The “de Poshoof” family farm just set up a Bed & Breakfast so they can give the delicious but “imperfect” curved asparagus to their guest inside a cozy and home-made package to have a snack during their visits around Maastricht; a package that the guests receive as a business present from the “de Poshoof” farm to be used afterward in their daily life as often as they want since it can be cleaned in the washing machine. By transferring the shape of the harvesting land into the package, the curved asparagus become more sculptural when they are faced to the straight lines and surfaces of the wrapping, a wrapping made out of two sewn layers -a polypropylene plastic foil as a dish and an organic cotton fabric as a napkin- to help people to re-discover again what nature really produces. (+) My specialty is the curved asparagus from  “de Poshoof” farm in Maastricht. I found terrible the fact that the farmer cannot sell the curved asparagus because of market reasons. This family farm just set up a Bed and Breakfast and they have to provide a nice breakfast to their guests every morning. My product is a take-away package to have an asparagus-based breakfast and make the most of the day around Maastricht, by using origami shapes for the package, with straight lines and surfaces to empower the curved shape of the asparagus, and to transfer the shape of the harvesting terrain into the package as well. This take-away package works as a 2-sided eating kit: one side is made out of plastic to have a hygienic surface to eat; the other side is made out of fabric to have a napkin to clean your fingers. Both layers of the package are sewn together and can be easily cleaned in the washing machine to reuse it as often as you want. You, as a guest of the Bed and Breakfast, will receive this breakfast package as a present the first day and you will take it at home to use it whenever you like instead of throwaway aluminium foil. Since the package has the name of the farm, every time you use it, you will remember what a wonderful time you spent there and maybe plan a new visit. *Making by folding A4-size paper templates: Some of the booklet pages are posted now: Mentored by Dick van Hoff

Curvaceous | Limburg curved asparagus | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

Nowadays we just see perfect vegetables on the market because the imperfect ones stay in the farm, although taste and quality are the same in both cases. The “de Poshoof” family farm just set up a Bed & Breakfast so they can give the delicious but “imperfect” curved asparagus to their guest inside a cozy and home-made package to have a snack during their visits around Maastricht; a package that the guests receive as a business present from the “de Poshoof” farm to be used afterward in their daily life as often as they want since it can be cleaned in the washing machine. By transferring the shape of the harvesting land into the package, the curved asparagus become more sculptural when they are faced to the straight lines and surfaces of the wrapping, a wrapping made out of two sewn layers -a polypropylene plastic foil as a dish and an organic cotton fabric as a napkin- to help people to re-discover again what nature really produces.

(+) My specialty is the curved asparagus from  “de Poshoof” farm in Maastricht. I found terrible the fact that the farmer cannot sell the curved asparagus because of market reasons. This family farm just set up a Bed and Breakfast and they have to provide a nice breakfast to their guests every morning. My product is a take-away package to have an asparagus-based breakfast and make the most of the day around Maastricht, by using origami shapes for the package, with straight lines and surfaces to empower the curved shape of the asparagus, and to transfer the shape of the harvesting terrain into the package as well. This take-away package works as a 2-sided eating kit: one side is made out of plastic to have a hygienic surface to eat; the other side is made out of fabric to have a napkin to clean your fingers. Both layers of the package are sewn together and can be easily cleaned in the washing machine to reuse it as often as you want. You, as a guest of the Bed and Breakfast, will receive this breakfast package as a present the first day and you will take it at home to use it whenever you like instead of throwaway aluminium foil. Since the package has the name of the farm, every time you use it, you will remember what a wonderful time you spent there and maybe plan a new visit.

*Making by folding A4-size paper templates:

Some of the booklet pages are posted now:

Mentored by Dick van Hoff

Public LightShading | Shared infrastructure | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

The history of Limburg will be told by shadows. Remembering the date of an important event of the neighbourhood in the past, the Sun -the most public light ever- will create a meaningful and recognizable shadow just at one specific moment of one day of the year. Inspired by the signage pollution in the streets, a new object will appear in the neighbourhood, an object made out of several “empty” sign elements around a real traffic sign where neighbours and new inhabitants can exchange information or find what they need, a physical board that will show and support the lively life of the neighbourhood. An object that, for instance, will reproduce the shadow of a no longer existing coalmine tower every year in the day when the mining industry stopped its activity in that enclave…

(+) The signage pollution in the streets is a problem that cities in are trying to remove. But for me, it’s possible to turn it to a new perspective without removing anything. Immediately, the sculptures of Alexander Calder came to my mind. What if I use this mess of signs to create or visualize something else? What if with these elements I can tell and show the history of the region? Of course, a lighting project is mainly aimed to think on the dark hours of the day, but these objects are also present during daylight. By combining two unique features of the Limburg region, I can create a meaningful action related with lighting: these two uniquenesses are the latitude of the place and the common regional heritage of Limburg. With the solar graphic of the latitude I can place and draw the shadow of an object on a specific day in a specific hour. So, I want to show the uniqueness of the Limburgish region by using the uniqueness of the latitude. Using these signage elements that don’t have any order, they become special, or better, their shadows become special just one day, in one specific hour, in one specific minute of the year, because only in that precise moment, the composition of these shadows creates a meaningful shape, and the shape itself is telling the story.

Some pages of my research booklet on the experiments and compositions with signage shadows are shown next:

Mentored by Thomas Lommee

LandLinescape | Invisible infrastructure of ideas | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011 Sunken lanes, hollow roads, military fortifications, highways, former defensive walls, harvesting lands… nature or man-made lines within the countryside of Maastricht where the landscape can be discovered on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. A forgotten large-scale “linescape” with a strong sculptural character that makes you feel really embraced by nature, in direct contact with earth, inside a big piece of non-deliberate landart. A personal research on “linescape” given expression to a series of postcards -a mapping series, a lines series, a personal intervention series and a trip series- that will travel by mail around the world, looking for being promoted, discovered and experienced as a reference of a unique landscape of The Netherlands. The five series of my “linescape” postcard collection are shown next: *Man-made line series *Nature-made line series *Trips series *Personal intervention series *Mapping series (+) Impressed by the sunken lanes around Maastricht, my project is not about “landscape” but “linescape”.  I find it very artistic and sculpture-related. I have gone several times to Maastricht and surroundings to check personally these sunken lanes in the landscape but also other “man-made” lines that I consider very related to each other, such as the military fort of Maastricht or the former defensive wall of the city. I was taking pictures every 30 steps while I was making these promenades to express the feelings you have when you follow these lines, and how you are discovering the landscape on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. In each line, I found something interesting in one point (invisible landmarks) because a line is made out of points: a small chapel, a water fountain… So, how can I highlight the landscape of Limburg and put it into value? What if this area is in a way a big artwork of Michael Heizer for instance? And what if in the end I make a point intervention on one point of one of these lines that embodies and reflects even more this sculpture character and the rest of the features, such as the feeling of been embraced by nature, direct contact with earth, partially vision of the landscape, etc.? Here, some pages of the research booklet: Mentored by Rianne Makkink

LandLinescape | Invisible infrastructure of ideas | My 3rd Term Finals | 2011

Sunken lanes, hollow roads, military fortifications, highways, former defensive walls, harvesting lands… nature or man-made lines within the countryside of Maastricht where the landscape can be discovered on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. A forgotten large-scale “linescape” with a strong sculptural character that makes you feel really embraced by nature, in direct contact with earth, inside a big piece of non-deliberate landart. A personal research on “linescape” given expression to a series of postcards -a mapping series, a lines series, a personal intervention series and a trip series- that will travel by mail around the world, looking for being promoted, discovered and experienced as a reference of a unique landscape of The Netherlands.

The five series of my “linescape” postcard collection are shown next:

*Man-made line series

*Nature-made line series

*Trips series

*Personal intervention series

*Mapping series


(+) Impressed by the sunken lanes around Maastricht, my project is not about “landscape” but “linescape”.  I find it very artistic and sculpture-related. I have gone several times to Maastricht and surroundings to check personally these sunken lanes in the landscape but also other “man-made” lines that I consider very related to each other, such as the military fort of Maastricht or the former defensive wall of the city. I was taking pictures every 30 steps while I was making these promenades to express the feelings you have when you follow these lines, and how you are discovering the landscape on a sequence, sometimes you are higher, sometimes you are lower. In each line, I found something interesting in one point (invisible landmarks) because a line is made out of points: a small chapel, a water fountain… So, how can I highlight the landscape of Limburg and put it into value? What if this area is in a way a big artwork of Michael Heizer for instance? And what if in the end I make a point intervention on one point of one of these lines that embodies and reflects even more this sculpture character and the rest of the features, such as the feeling of been embraced by nature, direct contact with earth, partially vision of the landscape, etc.?

Here, some pages of the research booklet:

Mentored by Rianne Makkink

Street shelter | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

The theme for this assignment is the analyze of the sidewalks and its “extensions”. People usually uses a limited area of the sidewalks, because they want to walk the shortest and the quickest way. Therefore, there are a lot of surfaces on the sidewalks which pedestrians don’t use and to define the boundary between the busy and the uncrowded zones, we should look specially at the street furniture; for instance, the space between streetlamps is not used since the poles create a virtual fence on the street, and so on…

How or what can I design to give much more uses, action and life to these expanding zones? With my proposal, I want people to use these areas and not only to walk through them, but stay even for a while. The concept of street shelter can support this idea since the use of the shelter implies to stop under it during a variable amount of time, for instance when it’s raining. 


The idea of the street shelter also comes to solve the tension when you use those semi-public / semi-private shelters like the ones in the front gardens of houses… My shelter stands in a real public space, then there is not any tension to use it.

This “cloud” is different because it protects you from the rain in winter and from the burning sun in summer. Made out by rotational molding technique, the cloud-shape hollow object is attached into the pole of a streetlamp. Thanks to this hollow feature, the cloud is less heavy than the common traffic signage elements and the effect of the wind on it is also less damaging for the streetlamp.

The attachment system is thought to support the effect of the wind and to avoid the cloud to turn around the pole. The outer surface of the cloud has a thin line that follows the outline as a wrinkle for the rain water to falls down and to get a dry space under the cloud when it’s raining. This line writes “There is no such as thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather”, a quote by John Ruskin.

Mentored by Dick van Hoff

The “story” of a pile of waste | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

I found my “fascination” for this assignment the first working day… I just put one step on my street and saw a huge pile of garbage in front of my house. From that moment, I kept on walking to the market but looking carefully at all the pieces of garbage on the street. My research has been focused on the first day pile of waste, analyzing it every week… but also analyzing its surroundings, like the restaurant, the street furniture, the bins, the animals, the weather…

I want to show my own relation and experiences with the garbage during the three-months term: my feelings with the waste has guided me during the research and each week, the scenario was the same but the content changed every single day. Once I even took part in the “cleaning” task in my street, with a vacuum cleaner, I wanted to treat the street like my home, and take care of it. There was a crucial moment during the research when five weeks before ending the term, the street containers in my street were broken and then, I decided not to throw away my own garbage and live with it inside my room. I analyzed every piece of waste I produced to be aware of the amount of garbage I create normally. The idea of keeping my waste next to me drove me to think in a different way to storage it. That’s why I used this vacuum bag system because with it, I get less space as possible and I can really check the amount of waste I produce in one month, in one year…

The book shows my weekly approach to my street and the garbage on it, in a chronological way since there is no relation among what I found each day during the term. Here, some pages of the book:

Mentored by Rianne Makkink

Fast Fruit | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011 A grocery shop on wheels that expands to random spots on the street. It uses wheeled boxes to sell its seasonal vegetables with temporary vendors. The seller gives his/her ID and receives a 24hours vendor license from the Fast Fruit owner. This covers the sellers’ insurance and registration. Unemployed people (students, people looking for a side job, people who stay temporary in a city…) apply for a box at Fast Fruit. The seller receives a box+vegetables, and a take-out kit (wheels, handle, chalk) and after assembling, he/she rolls out, finds a spot in the street, and draws place+prices around the box with the chalk. The benefits for the seller is a flexible job, free spot selection and daily payment; for the owner is an enlargement of the fixed shop, income percentage (70% shop / 30% seller); for the costumer is an easy access to local fruit and direct interaction with the seller; for the city is more life and social activity on the streets; for the farmer is a direct relation with local selling points. At the end of the workday, the seller brings the box back to the shop owner, gets his/her ID back and receives the payment depending on the sold amount of vegetables. Mentored by Thomas Lommee | Group project with Irma Földényi and Lynn Schammel

Fast Fruit | My 2nd Term Finals | 2011

A grocery shop on wheels that expands to random spots on the street. It uses wheeled boxes to sell its seasonal vegetables with temporary vendors.

The seller gives his/her ID and receives a 24hours vendor license from the Fast Fruit owner. This covers the sellers’ insurance and registration. Unemployed people (students, people looking for a side job, people who stay temporary in a city…) apply for a box at Fast Fruit. The seller receives a box+vegetables, and a take-out kit (wheels, handle, chalk) and after assembling, he/she rolls out, finds a spot in the street, and draws place+prices around the box with the chalk. The benefits for the seller is a flexible job, free spot selection and daily payment; for the owner is an enlargement of the fixed shop, income percentage (70% shop / 30% seller); for the costumer is an easy access to local fruit and direct interaction with the seller; for the city is more life and social activity on the streets; for the farmer is a direct relation with local selling points. At the end of the workday, the seller brings the box back to the shop owner, gets his/her ID back and receives the payment depending on the sold amount of vegetables.

Mentored by Thomas Lommee | Group project with Irma Földényi and Lynn Schammel

3… 2… 1… (street) ACTION!!!

As part of one of my “street” assignments this second trimester… I had to perform an action on the street related with my research… I selected “Sweeping Up” by Joseph Beuys but in my case, I was taken my street as my home… so I cleaned it in the same way, with same devices, with same good care…

Merging functions | My Christmas “short” assignment | 2011 Inspired by buildings and bridges constructions and their use of basic cantilevering structures, the table top stands at any position along the wooden pole just relying on its own weight, without any mechanical connection. Mentored by Jan Boelen

Merging functions | My Christmas “short” assignment | 2011

Inspired by buildings and bridges constructions and their use of basic cantilevering structures, the table top stands at any position along the wooden pole just relying on its own weight, without any mechanical connection.

Mentored by Jan Boelen

Spanish sunlight | My 1st Term Finals | 2010

WHAT?
A silkscreen printing in my bed linen and wall to emulate the effect of the Spanish light, where every window has a blind to protect you from the sun.

WHY?
Here in Eindhoven there is not too much sun, and I miss the light of my native land. With this printing I will feel a bit closer to my Spanish sunlight.

HOW?
Two different patterns are printed in the bed linen, made out of two kind of paint, sunsense and glow-in-the-dark, which react with or without light.

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With this assignment I have been thinking on the light, specially the Spanish sunlight. When I had to “invite” an artist to do something in my room, I chose Joaquín Sorolla because his paintings always show the light of our native land. This was the starting point to think about my final proposal… something related with light and also with my window, where I have these horrible and broken mosquito nettings that I hate actually. So eventually, I decided to work with light… not making a lamp but playing with its effect. Using paints which react with light or with the lack of it, I am more aware of its presence and its potential because I see one of the layers only with direct light, and the other one when there is no light anymore. Now, with these patterns in my bed linen I feel closer to my Spanish light because the patterns evoke the shadows of the blinds, an essential object in Spain to protect you from the sun.

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Mentor: Jan Boelen

Bending a piece of paper | My 1st Term Finals | 2010 WHAT?A bedside table for my guest to place the tourist guide and a candle during his/her visit at my home and then I could take it away when my guest is gone. WHY?We (the students) live in small rooms so I thought it would be nice if I could give a tiny object to my guest to make this short stay more comfortable. HOW?Trying to have the most neutral piece, this object is made out of white steel sheet, bent several time like a piece of paper to get a friendly shape. · · I decided what to do with this metal assignment during the first weeks of lessons when I had a guest in my place. I thought it would be really nice if with an object, I could make more comfortable his stay with me in my house. It’s a bedside table to attach it below the mattress where my guest can place the Holland guide and light a candle before falling asleep after a long tourist day. Evoking the cross sections of metal beams which are self-supporting construction elements, they don’t need anything else to fulfill their function. I made this piece with white steel sheet to get the most neutral object to fit with every different personalities of my guests, bent it by hand to have a friendly shape that I can close and take it away when my guest is gone.  · · Mentor: Dick van Hoff

Bending a piece of paper | My 1st Term Finals | 2010

WHAT?
A bedside table for my guest to place the tourist guide and a candle during his/her visit at my home and then I could take it away when my guest is gone.

WHY?
We (the students) live in small rooms so I thought it would be nice if I could give a tiny object to my guest to make this short stay more comfortable.

HOW?
Trying to have the most neutral piece, this object is made out of white steel sheet, bent several time like a piece of paper to get a friendly shape.

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I decided what to do with this metal assignment during the first weeks of lessons when I had a guest in my place. I thought it would be really nice if with an object, I could make more comfortable his stay with me in my house. It’s a bedside table to attach it below the mattress where my guest can place the Holland guide and light a candle before falling asleep after a long tourist day. Evoking the cross sections of metal beams which are self-supporting construction elements, they don’t need anything else to fulfill their function. I made this piece with white steel sheet to get the most neutral object to fit with every different personalities of my guests, bent it by hand to have a friendly shape that I can close and take it away when my guest is gone. 

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Mentor: Dick van Hoff

Look “in between” the lines…
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“My scarf” | My performance proposal for Tiyying Liu’s lecture + workshop | Source programme | 17.11.10

"Look “in between” the lines…"

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