Walter Smaalders | Realises inspiring concepts

Eenoog exhibition Logo design 2009

Eenoog means 'Eerste en Enige Openbare Openlucht Galerie' but also one-eye 'een-oog'.

Exibited as a protest sign in 2009 but also a page from my book ‘I was happy when I wrote this’

Protest sign 2009

‘I have no more to give’ Photo/mixed media as exhibited in 2009

Photoprint/bread/mixed media

‘Love Letters’, composition of a mix of love letters, red paint and paper glue, modelled on a red canvas with gilt frame 1999

I moved house regularly and with each move I was confronted with a box of love letters that I could no longer do anything with. Past relationships and love, I could still feel them when going through the letters. I needed to put it behind me and so I came up with the idea of turning it into this work, a red heart of love letters in a gilded frame. The work represents the love I once felt.

‘A real bull is vegetarian’ Illustration 2008

To counter why many men think eating meat is healthy and necessary for strength and energy. In Spain for example, the bull is the ultimate macho- but he is vegetarian.

‘Croco boot’ 2003

The original mould was a Mexican crocodile leather boot that I wore for a few years from the age of 18. The modified boot expresses how I felt at the time.

50 crucifixes ‘Everything is holy’ mixed media 2009

Protest sign 2009

Protest sign 2009

‘I hate you’ part of a work of 2- Exhibited 2009

140x200 cm

Protest sign 2009

Eenoog exhibition protest sign ‘True believing’ 2009

Monsanto sign 2020

I disagree with Monsanto's policy and strategy of monopolising agriculture and species through gene manipulation. It is dangerous, unethical and the motivation is based on making profit.

‘I love you’ part of a work of 2- Exhibited 2009

140x200 cm

The ‘Make girls not war’ protest sign comes from the fact that there are still much more boys than girls in China and India.

Take Part Exhibition Dordrecht museum 2018

Printed and cut out as a display 280x135 cm mixed media

Protest signs in Eenoog exhibition Haringstraat Dordrecht 2009

Prints on PVC foam mixed media 2009

Protest sign No fear no evil 2009

Boekenweek exhibition 2020

Compilation of protest signs print 340x175 cm

Poem 2012

‘I’m not the way’ Eenoog exhibition sculpture mixed media 2009

Protest sign 2009

Maria loves Mohammed loves Maria protest sign 2009

This protest sign is based on the story of a young couple, a Muslim boy and a Christian girl who tried to escape from Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. They were shot dead in the hills and lay there, hand-in-hand, for several weeks, in the eyes of the media. No one could retrieve their bodies because of snipers. In Sarajevo, 3 religions have lived peacefully together for over 500 years until the Bosnian war broke out in 1992.