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Considering Alex Hutton’s fascination with rollercoasters and monumental waterslides, he doesn’t actually ever climb aboard. “Heights and the sinking feeling during free-fall bother me too much to enjoy them,” he tells Colossal. In a way, that adds even further dimension to the enigmatic, unpeopled atmosphere of his meticulous oil paintings, which focus on rollercoasters, waterslides, and intricately contrived frameworks.
Devoid of the cars that roll along the tracks, Hutton focuses exclusively on volume, line, and three-dimensional grids, also typically setting the undulating forms against blank or brushy backgrounds so that even their scale is disorienting. While we typically associate the rides with youthful energy and nostalgia, the structures are strangely still and stark when pared down to their pure engineering.
“There is an absurdity to many theme park rides like rollercoasters and waterslides that I find compelling,” Hutton tells Colossal, continuing:
They present a mixture of excitement and fear. They show graceful yet imposing movement through space with curves, rhythm, and color at a striking scale. So much material, time, engineering, and maintenance goes into a short ride designed to fling people through space and create a sense of thrill and danger in a controlled environment.
Hutton views these paintings as a natural offshoot of PC games he used to play in the early 2000s, such as Sim City and Rollercoaster Tycoon, where the aesthetics of world-building—especially from a bird’s-eye view—captivated his imagination. His rollercoasters and waterslides are extensions of a practice that incorporates subjects like boardwalks, bridges, landscapes, structural framing, and even prehistoric anatomy.
Many of the coasters and slides are based on real constructions. The form for “Foment,” for example, is based on a waterslide in Kobe, Japan, called the Super Whooper. It was demolished in 1995 following a huge earthquake. “Roil” comes from an existing waterpark in Qatar called Meryal, which is home to the world’s largest waterslide structure. “It is hard to believe that some of these structures were ever built,” Hutton says. “I try to capture that absurdity and audacity of their existence.”
It’s less important to the artist that the paintings represent recognizable places than to depict formal qualities. Movement and proportion are just a couple of things he considers when planning a composition. “I look for a rhythm, a structure, a combination of colors that is exciting enough to spend time with,” Hutton says. “I want to find something unlikely, something reconsidered in a new light or from a new angle, but those moments can be difficult to track down.”
The two untitled works pictured here are bound for an exhibition at Main Projects in Richmond, Virginia, which opens on April 30. And he’s currently working toward a solo exhibition at SHRINE in New York, slated for next year. Find more on Instagram.
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AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De AEX-index is dinsdag licht hoger de handelsdag uitgegaan. Beleggers bleven het wel voorzichtig aandoen na de onzekerheid rond het handelsbeleid van Donald Trump. Het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof zette een streep door veel van de importheffingen van de president en hij kondigde daarop nieuwe wereldwijde heffingen aan.
Sinds dinsdag zijn deze nieuwe tijdelijke tarieven van 10 procent op buitenlandse goederen van kracht. Trump dreigde de heffing afgelopen weekend op te hogen tot 15 procent, maar gaf hier nog geen officieel bevel voor. Maandag zorgden de ontwikkelingen nog voor een domper op de Europese aandelenmarkten. Ook Wall Street daalde scherp.
De Europese beurzen veerden een dag later echter weer wat op. De AEX-index sloot 0,3 procent hoger op 1019,87 punten. De MidKap, met daarin de middelgrote fondsen op het Damrak, steeg 0,3 procent tot 1021,98 punten. De beurs in Frankfurt daalde een fractie. De beurs in Parijs won 0,3 procent. Londen noteerde bij het slot een fractie hoger.
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Onder meer de chipbedrijven Besi (plus 2,5 procent), ASML (plus 1,1 procent) en ASMI (plus 0,9 procent) hoorden bij de stijgers in de Amsterdamse hoofdindex. De banken ING en ABN AMRO gingen omlaag, met minnen van 1,5 en 3,7 procent.
In de MidKap eindigde Galapagos bovenaan met een plus van 4,1 procent. De biotechnoloog zag de omzet en winst stijgen in 2025. Volgens topman Henry Gosebruch was 2025 een belangrijk jaar voor Galapagos, waarin beslissingen werden genomen over een nieuwe strategische koers. Zo kondigde Galapagos aan de celtherapieactiviteiten af te bouwen en de vestigingen in Leiden, Bazel, Princeton, Pittsburgh en Shanghai te sluiten. Die afbouw verloopt volgens het bedrijf volgens planning.
Novo Nordisk verloor 3,1 procent in Kopenhagen. De Deense farmaceut is van plan om volgend jaar zijn prijzen in de Verenigde Staten flink te verlagen voor zijn succesvolle medicijnen Ozempic en Wegovy. Het bedrijf heeft moeite om een groter aandeel in de obesitasmarkt terug te winnen. Volgens Novo Nordisk maakt de prijsverlaging het mogelijk om meer patiënten te bereiken.
