photo & webdesign by Frank Zweers
photo & webdesign by Frank Zweers
The descriptive titles of his works, which often refer to cities or other locations, do not immediately reveal that Richard Rijnvos (NL, 1964) is first and foremost a radical composer. Someone who generates tones from non-musical, numerical sources such as magic squares and chessboards — and who loves to endlessly stack melodic lines on top of each other. This rigorous, dispassionate approach produces sensual works that bear a unique signature that is not specifically Dutch.
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Between 5 and 28 March 2026 Gallery Vane (Gateshead, UK) presents the first showing of a
thirty-minute animation by British visual artist Mike Collier (in collaboration with artist Tom Jordan and
animator/designer Nora Nadvegi), to accompany Dutch composer Richard Rijnvos’s composition
Aphrodíte for shō & string sextet.
A special viewing of this new work (in the presence of the composer) will precede the opening on
Wednesday 4 March and will run from 4.30pm.
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