DüSSELDORF | IMPRESSIONS
Apr 26, 2015
ELTVILLE | IMPRESSIONS
May 16, 2015
KLEVE | IMPRESSIONS
May 17, 2014
THE HAGUE | IMPRESSIONS
May 30, 2014
VLISSINGEN | IMPRESSIONS
Aug 30, 2014
PRAGUE | IMPRESSIONS
Sep 5, 2012
BUDAPEST | IMPRESSIONS
Sep 12, 2012
MONTENEGRO | IMPRESSIONS
Sep 29, 2012
ARTISTS ON TOUR 2014:
PIER PENNINGS
Visual reality in its most concrete form is always present in Pier Penning’s work. Everything is tangible and earthy. Balancing between desolation and intimacy, the image acquires an indefinable value. There is a tension between two extremes: the definable and the indeterminable.
Pennings always shows epheremality of nature and the works of man. Be it in his drawings and pictures of soil structures, patterns of branches and empty rooms in deserted buildings, be it in his pictures of adapted and distorted cars and car models.
He is always searching for the emotion of the passing, hidden behind the so called reality of what we consider to be objective and constant. He uses the definable to show what never will be determined. It’s the question behind the question, not the answer.
In his studio he uses very concrete materials, like plastic, steel, stone, plaster, tapes as a first layer. As a photographer he uses light as the second layer that hides his secrets from reality.
MARISA RAPPARD
Looking at Marisa Rappard’s drawings, you find yourself wandering through remote areas of a rather eerie universe. Ominous figures reside there: armoured men, hollow-eyed animals. A lone skeleton adrift at sea. You stumble upon a mysterious mountain, or see a tyrant devoured by his own fear. Still, you may also encounter a girl gently caressing a hairy sea creature; a man carrying a quiet, sacred fire; or a parade of elephants, lurching by.
In this mythical world, history and present, fact and fiction coincide. Rappard quotes art history, folk art, photos from the internet and her own imagination. Also, she makes use of a wide range of drawing materials, lines and handwritings.
In one drawing she may concentrate on a detail of this mythical world: a portrait of a tribe leader, a magic stone. In another she’ll zoom out and show a fighting scene or a map of an island. Also, she makes huge drawings in which she zooms out even further, showing all stories simultaneously, intertwined through a crisscross of lines in which figures emerge and dissolve.
In her installations she lets the fragmentated stories spread throughout the room.
Since 2004, Marisa Rappard (1979) has shown her work in various cities in her home country, The Netherlands, and also abroad (e.g. Norway, Belgium, USA). Recently she participated in exhibitions at the Drawing Centre in Diepenheim, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, gallery Cokkie Snoei in Rotterdam and Museum KAdE in Amersfoort.
FERRY STAVERMAN
Ferry Staverman makes objects of different types of cardboard. In the past he used cardboard only for research. When he accidentally cut a shape from cardboard scraps and fanned, he realized all the possibilities of this simple method. He created in a short time an hole world of objects in cardboard. This and the ease which made it possible to make large items of cardboard, made him build trees to 3m50 height. The inspiration for his forms he find in is his own quest, the nature and the difference between masculine and feminine. Also his frequently presence at Palace Het Loo, a 17th century hunting lodge near his home town Apeldoorn, has a big influence.
ANKE LAND
Anke Land designs tapestries and makes drawings, displaying human beings. Individuals that show themselves, often reluctantly, as if their hand were forced by fate. Anke Land picks them from the media and art history records them in large tapestries. Scenes in which people manifest their desire for transparency and change abundantly, yet at the same time wish to remain uncompromisingly hidden. She transforms these contradictions into archetypical images, in which people move collectively behind masks and façades. Anke Land weaves in accordance with traditional craftsmanship, but with the abstraction of modern representation.
Anke Land produces her tapestries in association with the Museum for Textiles at Tilburg (Holland). The tactility and fabric of the tapestries make palpable what you see. In creating the tapestries, she makes use of qualities found in painting. The weaving creates a refined surface and when light hits the tapestries, they radiate intensely
HINKE SCHREUDERS
Hinke Schreuders (born 1969) has been making small paintings or drawings on canvas with needle and thread since 2002. She draws on both borrowed images and personal photographic material for these embroideries in which she explores the field of tension between feminine role models, sexuality and pornography. In parallel to this, the work is about vulnerability and identity confusion in general.
Her technique, embroidery, appears to be innocent, but carefully constructed compositions evoke associations with more sinister undercurrents in a language that is prosaic and poetic at the same time. She draws inspiration from both traditional Victorian samplers and modern pornographic websites, as well as from the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and the scandalous novel
Histoire d’O.
Hinke Schreuders lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work is regularly shown in the Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam and has been exhibited at such venues as Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, the Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch and the Audax Textielmuseum in Tilburg.
NIELS BROSZAT
The world I create is similar to those found in fairy tales. Fairy tails are built up out of our own imagination. Sometimes we get clues to what this world might look like, thanks to illustrations. But I don’t think such illustrations are very convincing for adults.
I devote great effort to making my world believable. Because I don’t show it to you directly. I give you a painting, drawing or sculpture of this world.
We don’t have video footage of the Middle Ages. But because of preserved artefacts, we can get a good impression of what was going on back then. That’s what I do too. I make artefacts of a world that you and I are still building.
ARTISTS ON TOUR 2012:
EPKER, B C For B.C. Epker (1968) fascinations are important….
EPKER, B C
For B.C. Epker (1968) fascinations are important. They seduce him to reveal unknown stories, which are waiting to be told and visualised.
His work is built up from images, dreams, ambitions, collective memories, references to art history and expressive consequences of philosophical ideas.
They are questioned on their essential features and stripped from superfluity and then forged into new constellations
that continuously generate new meanings and are open to the unknown.
Epker worked for several art-advisory boards and now he works regulary as (visiting) lecturer at art academies and post-academic-master courses.
His work is widely exhibited throughout Europe and the USA, and can be found in various collections of museums and institutions.
At the moment Epker lives and works in Leeuwarden (NL).
LAND, ANKE Anke Land makes photographs, drawings and wall…
LAND, ANKE
Anke Land makes photographs, drawings and wall hangings. Her way of working is for the greater part a mental process, the results of which she sets down in pictures, that she covers and traces in drawing. The centre of gravity in her work are the wall hangings she makes in the Audax Textiel Museum in Tilburg, Holland.
Often newspaperpictures lie at the basis of her work. She neutralizes the concept of time by depicting daily news as actual history in the old craftmanship of tapestry.
The modern loom is steered by computer, but still according to the system of the Fleming Jacquard, who – in the 18th century – had his looms steered by punched cards.
The result is historicising: nowadays pictures become archetypes of human appearances throughout the ages.
You find the same tension between actuality and history in the skulls, which are simultaneously portrait and mask.
Temporality and eternity united in a blink of the eye. Pictures on the edge of life and death, but part of our lives.
PENNINGS, PIER Visual reality in its most concrete form is…
PENNINGS, PIER
Visual reality in its most concrete form is always present in Pier Penning’s work. Everything is tangible and earthy. Balancing between desolation and intimacy, the image acquires an indefinable value. There is a tension between two extremes: the definable and the indeterminable.
Pennings always shows epheremality of nature and the works of man. Be it in his drawings and pictures of soil structures, patterns of branches and empty rooms in deserted buildings, be it in his pictures of adapted and distorted cars and car models.
He is always searching for the emotion of the passing, hidden behind the so called reality of what we consider to be objective and constant.
In his studio he uses very concrete materials, like plastic, steel, stone, plaster and tapes. As a photographer he uses light as the sculptor of secrets.
www.gbk.nl/kunstenaars/pierpennings
REYERS, ZEGER Starting point for the work of Zeger Reyers is…
REYERS, ZEGER
Starting point for the work of Zeger Reyers is visualising typical processes in different kinds of biotopes.
Man developes new biotopes from which he makes himself dependent. So nature fell throughout the nineteenths century in the hands of mankind.
But at the same time man made himself vulnerable by getting more and more dependent of these biotopes, that still got their own nature.
Reyers shows it by using specific biotopes for not ment purposes, by simply changing one parameter, which turns it into a totally different environment.
By example, Reyers made a wooden seat, wich he dropped in a musselbank in the Easter Scheldt. Overgrown with mussels in two years time,
the mussels on the seat were cleaned and steamed in a special made pan. The visitors of the performance ate the mussels.
Another project was to be seen on Art Rotterdam. The picture shows a Thorens turntable, playing a record with a one-groove loop.
The player was very, very slowly stopped by the growing yellow oyster mushrooms.
V&B (ALEX JACOBS AND ELLEMIEKE SCHOENMAKER) Works in…
V&B (ALEX JACOBS AND ELLEMIEKE SCHOENMAKER)
Works in painting, sculpture and installation. They compile their images through staging a situation, photographing it and then either adapting it or supplementing it with computer-generated images from the Internet.
The painting is not a reflection of this, but rather a reconsideration or appropriation of the resulting image.
Recognizable objects flow out amorphously, paint becomes matter, and the aerosol is used to conceal parts or create hip colour accents.
And yet, behind the vivid use of colour, the free allusions to the domain of art and the up tempo battle between form and content, hides a critical vision of the way in which mankind shapes its culture and makes use of it.
VAAL, ELIZABETH DE De Vaal sources her work in texts, diagrams…
VAAL, ELIZABETH DE
De Vaal sources her work in texts, diagrams and images, often found in unfamiliar environments encountered in her many travels and artist residencies. Her curiosity and fascination with unknown spaces and histories, lead to the creation of enigmatic paintings and in situ multimedia works.
De Vaal has received a number of awards in The Netherlands. She has exhibited extensively in galleries and museums in her home country, notably a retrospective at the Central Museum in Utrecht (1986). Abroad, she has shown solo in Hungary, and has participated in group exhibitions in South Korea, Germany, and Indonesia. Most recently she participated in the Cross Art exhibition in Bonn, Germany, curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann (2005). Since 2004, de Vaal lives and works for part of the year in Hungary, where she taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Pécs. In the nearby village of Pécsbagota she initiated an artist-in-residency program in 2007 and opened the Keret Emese Galéria + Y in 2009.