Award-winning Dutch artist, Job Koelewijn, created this full-size gas station for a photographic work called "Sanctuary". Its distinctive decor is made up of covers removed from his own books.
Keolewijn once held a residency at PS1 in New York, where he produced a celebrated work featuring skyscapers and towers called The Balancing Act, which, like "Sanctuary", gives an unexpected vulnerability to features from urban life.
Koelewijn is now based in Amsterdam, where I just came across his work in a group show at Galerie Fons Welters.
Koelewijn enjoys pushing his media. Other works has included the extraordinary "Internal Communication Amplifier", described as a tool for intensifying communication.
