Rik Smits (b. 1982) recently graduated from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in the Hague and received the Young Blood Award 2010 of gallery Ron Mandos in Amsterdam. Rik Smits currently lives and works in The Hague.
 
Rik Smits's ballpoint drawings depict cities driven by wealth and technical and architectural aspirations. Themes as cities of skyscrapers by night and abandoned cathedrals in desolate places show his interest in both capitalism and religion. His architectural constructions seem to be directly drawn from his imagination but one can clearly see references to the work of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright.
 
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