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.
Today over 6000 artists are listed by style, movement and medium, and we go on.

We invite you to write a comment about the website.

Matthijs Leijenaar, webmaster

Website: Edi APOSTU Holotropic Art
Contact email: ediapostu@gmail.com

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.
In style, the artist�s artwork, which usually features the human figure but is sometimes virtually abstract, belongs to Neo-expressionism which pioneered a return to traditional formats such as easel paintings and which became a dominant force in avant-garde art in the USA and Europe. Like the late paintings of Pablo Picasso which played a major influence, the artist�s artwork is often sexual in subject matter and typically expresses strong emotions and views about the contemporary world.
In mood, the works of this French artist are coloured by the preoccupations of Existentialism which had its heyday in Paris in the 1950s. The paintings and sculptures are distinctive for their recurring use of an egg, which throughout the ages has symbolized new beginnings, the spark of creation, fertility, purity and rebirth. These constant references are evidence of the artist�s search for a meaning to existence and the origin and explanation of the cosmos. Although there is no truly self-professed movement calling itself �Existentialist�, existentialism naturally influenced many mid-century artists who experienced existence as a an isolated solitary phenomenon in an absurd world, but for whom Art was the medium to define themselves.
The artwork also shows originality and uniqueness in its approach to form. Originally a sculptor by training, the artist started painting in the later years of his life but with the eye of a sculptor. His work is an original combination of the two disciplines, experimenting with both in works which draw on influences from classical bas-reliefs to the early conceptual sculptures of Jeff Koons.

Website: site de l’artiste
Contact email: mgdv@tiscali.fr

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
2007 - Pracht in de gracht, Zaltbommel
2006 - Gallery Tuur, ‘Lichtgevoelig’ avondexpositie Venlo
2006 - Bram Roza festival Nieuw-Beijerland
2005 - Plantagedok ‘Nachten van �t licht’ Amsterdam
2005 - Museum Bommel van Dam,’Reis naar Marroco’ Venlo
2005 - Gallery Tuur,’Reflecties’ Venlo
2005 - Open atelierroute Venlo
2005 - Bram Roza festival Nieuw-Beijerland
2004 - In de cellen van de Commissaris� Venlo
2004 - Gallery Tuur,’D�j� vu’ Venlo
2003 - Gallery de Sigarenfabriek’,'Water’, Delft
2003 - Museum Bommel van Dam, ‘Kunst laat zich niet kisten’, Venlo
2003 - Bram Roza festival, Nieuw-Beijerland
2003 - Gallery Tuur, Venlo
2002 - City gallery Werner-Jaeger-Halle Groepsexpositie Nettal, Germany
2002 - Open atelierroute Venlo
2002 - Gallery Tuur Venlo
2001 - Project Eetcaf� Antoni Gaudi Venlo
2001 - Cultuurstad Venlo manifestatie Venlo
2001 - Gallery Tuur Venlo
1999 - Kamerschermen Expositie Maaspoort Venlo
1999 - Open atelierroute Venlo
1999 - Gallery Tuur Venlo
1998 - Project Gallery Q webdesign
1998 - Gallery Tuur Venlo
1998 - Virtuele exhibition Gallery Q www.goldengate.nl/galerieq
1997 - Solo exhibition L.I.S.V. Amsterdam
1997 - Gallery Tuur Venlo
1996 - Opening Gallery Tuur Venlo
1996 - Open atelierroute Venlo
1995 - Project Cd-rom �View on Venlo� (visuel communication)
1995 - Project Venlo Maskerstad (entry)
1995 - Expositie St. Elisabeth solo exhibition Venray
1994 - Exhibition St.Maartens gasthuis solo expositie Venlo
1993 - Exhibition Caf� Schlemmer groepsexpositie Venlo
1980 - Historisch Museum, groepsexpositie, Amsterdam

Website: Yvonne Rooding
Contact email: info@yvonnerooding.com

Education:

1998-00
-Jan van Eyck Akademie
Postgraduate Center for Fine Art, Design & Theory
Maastricht NL

1996-97
-Exchange participant at the SVA
(School of Visual Art)NYC

1993-98
-Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam NL

Grants/Awards:

2002-04 FvBK, Amsterdam,NL
2000-01 FvBK, Amsterdam,NL
1998-�00 Mondrian Stichting,NL

Exhibitions:

2003
Afterglow and still not dead�, Sushi in collab. with C.Hatton, San Diego

2002
Vincent Prize comic book reading room for Neo Rauch, Bonnefanten Museum of Contemp. Art, Maastricht,NL

El Cajon blvd, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels, B

Red walls, de Ateliers in collab. with C.Hatton, Amsterdam,NL

2001
Tier, Bonnefanten Museum of Contemp. Art, Maastricht,NL

Hriller-show, Bonnefanten Museum of Contemp. Art, Maastricht,NL

Screenings:

2002
Intermedium 2 Biennial, in collab. with german / frenchTV and Radio- stations, Karlsruhe,D

File Electronica, Lisabon,Portugal

Video Marathon at SCCA (Soros Center for Contemp. Art),Russia

2001
Hazelproject,The Lux,Pandaemonium Biennial of moving Images,London,GB

2000
�denn dort oben bist du zu Haus�,B�roFriedrich,
Berlin,D

Publications:

2005
Elle magazine article, April,USA

2004
Flaunt magazine, November, Los Angles,USA

2003
Taka-Tuka-Land, Intermedium2- catalogue, Karlsruhe,D

Hriller-show, Bonnefanten Museum catalogue, Maastricht,NL

Early works, de Ateliers 1998-2002, Amsterdam,NL

2001
Tier, Issues12, Maastricht,NL

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.
These splatters can also be seen as body fluids, or a natural disaster (storm like).

Painting skin that has gone through all this mediation and pixelation is very interesting for me.
Black skin becomes a mixture of brown and pink paint tubes.
It is a very unnatural look. In a way they are clearly a product.

Mixing nature with representations of humans has always been of great interest to me.
I see a definite relationship between the two in terms of dealing with binaries such as naive and cultivated or dangerous and harmless…aware and unaware….etc
There is a natural cycle that forms itself. One that deals with the more artificial world (sandwiches, architecture). These are the elements that are coming back in the toxic unnatural, more abstracted background. And those are juxtaposed to the elements that more talk of a natural environment.

Website: saatchi-gallery
Contact email: mirjamafeni@hotmail.com

- Pr�sentation du travail
Mes travaux sont des articulations de formes flottantes ou fragmentaires. Ils esquissent une ligne de flottaison/de flottement, une fine pellicule reliant les espaces, bordant l�ombre au seuil de sa disparition. Acte de funambulisme, affaire de tact (et de pr�cision), il est question de pe(n)ser l�hypoth�se d�un � flottement-articul� �, d�une pr�cision trouble.
——-
- Coul�e douce est un dispositif constitu� de r�cipients divers remplis d’eau et de fils � coudre. En fonction du lieu environnant, les r�cipients sont plac�s � une relative hauteur d’o� s’�chappent des gouttelettes d’eau qui s’�coulent le long de fils � coudre. Ces dermi�res sont reli�es entre elles pour constituer des canalisations de fortunes. Elles forment un dessin dans l’espace. En accompagnant les gouttelettes dans leur chute, le r�seau r�agit � la moindre vibration.

- Lignes Fant�mes : je dessine ici une ligne d’ombre en reliant l’ombre de chaque �pingle � celle de la suivante. Je m’adapte � la moindre source de lumi�re. A l’int�rieur, j’op�re � partir de lumi�res artificielles (lampes, �crans…) et en ext�rieur, je dessine � l’ombre en fonction du mouvement du soleil. Par la nature impermanente et vibratile de la lumi�re, j’op�re en territoire incertain. Les Lignes fant�mes oscillent entre apparition et disparition. Ce travail se veut tr�s discret : cette ombre se dessine autour de nous sans que nous la remarquions.

Website: Ismail Bahri
Contact email: ismaiilll@yahoo.fr

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
Contact email: info@saintclairfineart.com