Aquil Copier. Dutch painter based in Amsterdam. © 2010

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Educative 1
Publication by Amsterdam University Press with one of my paintings as cover image. 2011.

Educative 2
Publication for VMBO students for the CITO toets. In this publication the works of four artists are taken as an example for students on how to approach starting a creative project. The artists are Leonardo da Vinci, Panamarenko, Tomas Saraceno and Aquil Copier.

Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. 2011

Drawings in mimeograph print
During a workperiod in Germany in September 2010. Serie of colour separated drawings. These are printed in mimeograph print (in Dutch: gestencilled).

...GRATIE
Exhibition composed for (miniature) museum Le Secet. 2010.
In this miniature exhibition the theme is the word immigration and the always challenging idea for artists to life and work abroad.

Participating artists:
frank ammerlaan NL > London
eugenie goldschmeding NL > Parijs
paul haworth UK > NL
michael markwick US/NL > Berlin
joep overtoom NL > London
geeske bijker NL > Berlijn

Challenging the myth of the painter
Group exhibition of 20 painters connected with PRESENTeert, the pamphlet on painting, at stichting outLINE. And event 'Call for artists writings' with presentations by participants: Aquil Copier, Michiel Hogenboom, Mischa Rakier and Sander van Deurzen.

Participating artists: niels broszat, aquil copier, sander van deurzen, iris frerichs, gijs frieling, menso groeneveld, iva gueorguieva, paul haworth, michiel hogenboom, [v&b] alex jacobs and ellemieke schoenmaker, stefan kasper, aukje koks, peter luining, maaike van der linden [representative verfhond], mischa rakier, simon schrikker, jeroen vrijsen, reinoud van vught, marjolijn de wit and michiel van der zanden.

Installation
Participation in the installation of Iva Gueorguieva: Betekenen. Signe, Heerlen (NL). 2010. With interventions by Joanneke Meester, Patricia Kaersenhout, Martijn van Erp, aquil Copier and Iva Gueorguieva.

Installation
Metamorphose, site-specific installation of wool and plaster. Made during a workperiod (Grenswerk 2010) in Tripkau (Germany). A previous military kazerne where soldiers where hosted to protect the DDR border, now transformed into an art space.

"Wat is er met de ruimte gebeurd sinds ze van doorgangsplaats voor pelgrimages tot bezienswaardigheid van toeristen is kunnen worden". This sentence comes from the book Filosofie van het landschap by Ton Lemaire and is painted on the wall as a part of the installation in the former dog house.

Photo's: Gabriella Barros.

Installation
Workperiod in Itea (Greece). Installation of wool and plaster. Dimensions 140 x 300 cm. 2008.

Painting as a multiple
Commission for a multiple by Regioplan. Digitally scanned paintings reproduced as a gloss photo paper C-print mounted on dibond and plexiglas.

Second photo below is the presentation of a serie digitally scanned paintings at ART Amsterdam 2010 by 2x2projects Gallery.

Woodchapel Leidsche Rijn
Assisting Gijs Frieling with painting project. The chapel is designed by William Speakman.

PRESENTeert
Mimeograph printed (in Dutch: gestencild) platfom for painting since November 2009. The goal is to present painters ideas and visions, apart from their visual work… perhaps related to painting.

www.presenteert.wordpress.com

Another perfect world
Exhibition and filmscreening composed in an alternative art space in Amsterdam.
The theme for the exhibition was: visions on paradise and utopia.

Participating artists: Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti, Simon Schrikker, Michiel van der Zanden, Bianca Runge and Aquil Copier.

Landsporen atlas
This project is commisioned by CBK 's-Hertogenbosch. 10 drawings on paper bounded in a book (150x100 cm.), representing an atlas which comprises a series of drawings that suggest more than describe surroundings landscapes of Den Bosch. By applying a variety of techniques and materials (airbrush, oil pencils, tempera and acrylics), a collection of painterly detailed sketches and highly suggestive rough drawings are realized. Even though inspired by Den Bosch geography, these drawings activate in the spectators a process of imagination more than of recognition of familiar landscapes. The work indirectly comments on the status and function of an atlas. Other than an object consulted to find precise position of cities or streets, this new Atlas suggests seeking location or place as a process of personal associations, where individual knowledge, memory and desires are intimately intermingled. It speaks of personal imagination and emotional travels, over objectivity and geographical coordinates.

Educative 3
Publication by Amsterdam University Press with one of my paintings as cover image. 2012.

The Dot Gallery / IMAGINE 2012
In collaboration with Ricoh and CBK 's Hertogenbosch i have been working one month in a nice white studio in the former Stedelijk Museum building in Den Bosch during a one month event of workshops and lectures by Ricoh. Here are some of the results of my work.

Participating artist: Aquil Copier, Paul Klotz/LED-Art, Daan Roosegaarde, Joris Strijbos & Dan Johan/Macular, Dorette Sturm, Joris Tubbergen, Sander Veenhof/SNDRV en Jonas Vorwerk & Yoren Schriever.