Later… (2001)
at Aperture Gallery’s Nature as Artificeexhibition
A visual artist from the Netherlands whose works explore the interaction between reality and photography, either with staged photography, either in his studio or in public space.
Works in the studio include a long-running series of pictures showing scale models of Dutch landscapes and interiors.
And this landscape is itself a construct. By reconstructing it from memory, the artist reflects on the mentality of its makers and the way their world is represented in images. Works in public space concern themselves with iconic images from sites and events, often using fictitious United Nation operations to illustrate the workings of images in the media.
Pylon, 2006
C-print, 190 x 145 cm
Gat I, 1999
c-print mounted on aluminium, edition 1/5 , (180 x 240 cm)
Ontbijt/Breakfast I, 1997
c-print mounted on aluminium, edition 4/5 (220 x 160 cm)
Notes:
- Wants a work with a straight forward answer. [Audiences] You do not want to be bullsh*tted by an artwork that only looks beautiful. You want to know what is and what is going on.
- The whole world as a reproduction, as seen through the news thousands of times a day
- Wants to evoke truth, which in many ways is just a narrative
- Photographs are a reality with a twist that gives audiences a different perspective
- Deep concerns with the manipulation of audiences, using them as merely ‘extras’ in the work
- [Inner] Conflict with small-scale models: descriptions actually revealed in hindsight
- Eerie photographic endpoint
Keuken/Kitchen, 2001
c-print, plexi, edition 1/5 (200 x 143 cm)
Backyard V Mess, 2004
c-print, plexi, reynobond, edition 1/5 (220 x 146 cm)
Keuken/Kitchen, 2001
c-print, plexi, reynobond, edition 1/5, 47 1 (120 x 92 cm)
What I enjoy about the work is the feeling of the images, not quite real yet remaining so realistic in their depiction,there is something eternal that you are searching for within the images.
The ‘everyday’ nature of the images instantly recognisable and yet at the same time too clinical in their depiction, I really enjoy the process and technique of the images.
Even his sentiment within the lecture, so distanced in his methodology, he is still so enamoured with the technique despite the concerns with the audience.
Nevertheless his images are stunning examples of artistic process and even architecture in many ways as he [from memory] explores the landscape, architecture and memory in a most beautiful way.
Lecture Images:
Hospital (above 2 images)
UN Buses
UN Buses – aerial view
Spiralling staircase (Derby)
Real-life example
behind-the-scenes view
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