Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Fine Arts

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys show fifteen steel sculptures, eighty-five watercolors, and a few videos.

These artists make tragic, comic, and silent portraits of the human condition. They are drawn to all that society can’t digest or domesticate, and they create a perverse caricature that is populated by amateur actors, faces, dolls, animals, and other speechless objects. Their work is deadpan, in all senses of the word: funny and blank at the same time. It tastes like cardboard.