Wall With A View #01 features a wall in a private residence where a new mural is created each year. With this initiative, we aim to highlight our expertise in advising and guiding private clients in the acquisition of a mural. The first mural in the series will be created by Luuk Bode.

About ‘Stroke 406’ by Luuk Bode (part of the ‘stroke’ series).

The design emerged from a form experiment I was working on at the time. That exploration is an ongoing process, as my work revolves around leaving a personal signature. The ‘stroke,’ the brushstroke, is what makes an image maker unique. I originally started with ‘Stroke 1’, followed by ‘Stroke2’, then ‘Stroke3’, and so on. But I soon lost count and began linking the outdoor murals to their postal codes, as the work becomes part of its surroundings. This mural responds to the indoor space, the apartment itself, which is why I decided to connect this particular ‘stroke’ to the house number. The color palette is carefully adjusted to the environment. The intermediate tones, such as turquoise, respond to the kitchen’s glaze, the exposed concrete, and the white.

Luuk Bode

Over the years, Luuk has developed a strong sense of colour and form, in work that has become increasingly abstract. His earlier figurative work drew on influences from pop and street culture, and elements of this can still be found in his current explosions of form and colour.

The contemporary urban landscape is still an endless source of inspiration for Luuk. He observes and interprets all kinds of forms and materials he encounters there: the way skylines are formed, the receding perspectives as you walk through the streets, reflections in the water or mirrored facades, road markings. But details such as half-decorated stickers, litter or graffiti also capture the imagination.

It is not only the urban and contemporary that feeds him. The great painters of the 20th century also play a clear role in his work. There was a huge need, especially in the 1960s, to redefine our everyday lives and reinvent visual language. Luuk does exactly that, but in his own way, in his own time.