The least that can be said about dutch artist Helmut Smits is that he is extremely resourceful, and doesn't lack a sense of humor. I discovered his work with his wax sculptures project, in which he combined different type of candles to create weird and colorful shapes. The rest of his production is extremely diverse and reminds me of the amazing Rafael Rozendaal in some ways: take a simple idea, make it happen, repeat it several times, see where it goes. It feels like Helmut Smits doesn't discard a lot of ideas, and experiments tirelessly with the same mechanisms — humor, simplicity, wit, and a touch of poetry. The results are often surprising, always clever. David Shrigley might be one of his cousins.
