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Ilse van Rijn, 2008.
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Hans den Hartog Jager
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13/11/2010
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Lennard Dost
De Volkskrant 19/11/2008
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Rutger Pontzen
De Volkskrant 20/10/2007
Meer bindmiddel dan pigment >>
Paola van de Velde
De Telegraaf
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Antonie den Ridder
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My recent works can be divided in two kinds. In some works, the images are recognizable places (real or fictional), in other works instead, I abstract elements present in the original image, images of the virtual world or not.
In both cases, however, the effect I search for is to capture the viewer’s attention towards the materiality of the painting itself, in order to question the reality, and truthfulness, of what we see.
During the Renaissance, a painting was intended as a ‘window’ on the world. Since then, perception of reality has been one of the main subjects of research both in art, filosophy and science. Nowadays, due to the development of digital media (social networks, video-games like World of Warcraft, and specific software’s like Google-Earth), real and virtual worlds are constantly overlapping.
This creates a new area of investigation on what perception of reality can be. In my view, this gives a new challenge to painting. By painting contemporary landscapes in an unorthodox way, I want to reflect on this. My paintings now – instead to the idea of the Renaissance – are a window on a world of a possible reality.
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