| Netherlands/Portugal the-artists.org 10 years online 1998 - 2008! the-artists.org did start in 1998 with my favorite artists from the Dada movement, followed by the surrealist artists, constructivists and so on till the artists of today. Soon the website became a populair resource for artlovers and students from all over the world. We invite you to write a comment about the website. Matthijs Leijenaar, webmaster |
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| 1998 - 2008 |
| from 11th to the 29th of November 2008, Montreal, Canada The new concept of Holotropic Art by Edi APOSTU Website: Edi APOSTU Holotropic Art |
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| The jade holotropic sword |
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| Orange ecstatic experience |
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| Holotropic black paradigm |
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| The black cosmic whirl |
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| Exécuté |
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| Condamné |
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| Apat |
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| Le douanier |
| Born 1929, France the artist lives and works in Charente, France Gilbert de Vries is a “famous-unknown” artist: he doesn’t hang in museums and commercial galleries but has an increasingly big following among a young French crowd. This is surprising given the generation gap, but can be explained by the artist’s strong individualism and ironic eye on contemporary society. But it is perhaps also because of his refusal to follow stylish trends and his indifference to self-promotion which define him as the archetypal passionate artist, for whom art is not a business but an existential necessity. Born in Garches (France) in 1929, Gilbert de Vries began mixing sculpture with painting and incorporating common objects at the beginning of the 1980s, disassembling these objects to reinterpret philosophical and political concepts or mythological and social archetypes. Website: site de l’artiste |
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| Slipping into darkness |
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| Spinning |
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| The way out |
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| She’s going bananas |
| Born 1961, The Netherlands the artist lives and works in Venlo, The Netherlands Yvonne Rooding is a driven artist, she paints “energetic objects”. She sees life as a cycle, a continual alternation in the cosmos by which opposite attracts and rejects each other alternately. This subject is in general invisible, inaudible, without shape, without beginning or end and beyond space or time. She use symbols (keys till consciousness) to work out her theme. With the end result, that brings up associations of colourful whirlpools, bubbling eruptions, penetrating collisions, floating cocoons and DNA-spirals. She uses acryl on canvas or ecoline and rubber on paper, which ensures surprising textures. Roodings paintings are permanent exhibited in Gallery Tuur in Venlo, The Netherlands. Exhibition history 2007/2008 - Gallery Tuur - ‘Looking Up’ Venlo Website: Yvonne Rooding |
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| California Living |
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| Signature Subs |
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| Crying with the Wolves |
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| Druk |
| Born 1972, Germany the artist lives and works in Los Angeles, USA Education: 1998-00 1996-97 1993-98 Grants/Awards: 2002-04 FvBK, Amsterdam,NL Exhibitions: 2003 2002 El Cajon blvd, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, B Red walls, de Ateliers in collab. with C.Hatton, Amsterdam,NL 2001 Hriller-show, Bonnefanten Museum of Contemp. Art, Maastricht,NL Screenings: 2002 File Electronica, Lisabon,Portugal Video Marathon at SCCA (Soros Center for Contemp. Art),Russia 2001 2000 Publications: 2005 2004 2003 Hriller-show, Bonnefanten Museum catalogue, Maastricht,NL Early works, de Ateliers 1998-2002, Amsterdam,NL 2001 Hazelproject, Pandaemonium catalogue 2001, London,GB Work out, Bommel van Dam catalogue of prizewinner 2001,Venlo,NL Hazelproject, Reverberations for Trans-cultural Studies,Maastricht,NL Sophie, Lorraine, Olivia & Rebecca, book project by Mirjam Kort, Maastricht,NL Statement My work is based off images that we have in overload. Such as advertisement received through the mail box, internet downloads of random things, cheap magazines etc. Mediated imagery is important to me, because often times I can find a staged, uncomfortable awareness within either the actor, because he or she is aware of the camera. I focus on the artificiality within the pixelated and over saturated printout or other digital outputs. I like giving life, personality or even importance to this overload of easy accessible imagery. I am interested in showing a clash of cultures through creating a symbiotic relationship on the canvas between very americanized, mediated imagery and more romanticized pictures that remind me of the past or more deal with a juvenile recollection. This ensemble of images on the canvas forms a narrative or an atmosphere that is rather surreal and very much deals with a frozen moment. I like to break this stillness by creating the illusion of movement with my paint splatters. Painting skin that has gone through all this mediation and pixelation is very interesting for me. Mixing nature with representations of humans has always been of great interest to me. Website: saatchi-gallery |
been to: Documenta 12, ArsElectronica, Biennale Venice - lived in Basel - had a good social life - moved back in Romania - worked my ass off - learned to like beer Plus add ons: I have met Lopez. Lopez… I miss Lopez. …
In another post I wrote about the “Documenta 12 effect†deploying a Baudrillard-like methodology of pessimistic futurology. The endpoint of the fictional Documenta 12 effect is a Pruitt Igoe-like demolition of the institution of fine …
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| Coulée douce 2002-2007 |
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| Coulée douce 2002-2007 |
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| Ligne fantôme 2002-2007 |
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| Ligne fantôme 2002-2007 |
| Born 1978, Tunisia the artist lives and works in Paris/Tunis, France/Tunisia - Présentation du travail - Lignes Fantômes : je dessine ici une ligne d’ombre en reliant l’ombre de chaque épingle à celle de la suivante. Je m’adapte à la moindre source de lumière. A l’intérieur, j’opère à partir de lumières artificielles (lampes, écrans…) et en extérieur, je dessine à l’ombre en fonction du mouvement du soleil. Par la nature impermanente et vibratile de la lumière, j’opère en territoire incertain. Les Lignes fantômes oscillent entre apparition et disparition. Ce travail se veut très discret : cette ombre se dessine autour de nous sans que nous la remarquions. Website: Ismail Bahri |
… als Kunstwerk durch die Documenta 12, die Mitwirkung an dem Film Ratatouille als Synchronsprecher, die Arbeit an der Alicia Foundation, einem Projekt zur Ernährungserziehung und dazu noch unzähliche Interviews, Vorträge und Events. …
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| Exasperated Jessie |
| Born 1963, the artist lives and works in Kentucky, USA Master draughtsman, painter and photographer, Lukas de Saint-Clair is a prolific image maker. Born in Kentucky and growing up in Germany, his work has a very euro-american feel. “Art is about living, breathing and experiencing the planet then sharing our point of view with others via artistic expression. It is a vital part of human existance where we are able to learn from our past to further advance our future.” Website: Exasperated Jessie |