Yes, I did it!
A group- exhibition in the Hague, in “Het Haags Gemeentemuseum”.
The jury choose one of my drawings. This is really an important step!
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Today the exhibition in Harlingen (the Netherlands) started.
OMG. Tomorrow I am going to Groningen. In Groningen there is a sort of contest going on.
If you make it through the balloting (I am afraid this is very bad English, although I think I do a better job than Louis van Gaal at Manchester United in the UK) you are allowed to join a group-exhibition in “Het Gemeentemuseum of The Hague”. This museum is highly regarded, here in the Netherlands.
Just today I saw this movie. The “line-up” of last year. Very, very, long rows of people. A lot of so called artists, trying to get a piece of the cake.
I will join this contest with these four works. Wish me luck (I am on my own tomorrow, so how on earth will I manage to show my four works of art to the jury?). I can’t bail out. I’ve paid 120 euro’s for this. What have I done, what have I done?
Framed some drawings, for the upcoming exhibitions
Well, my job as a teacher is, not only to challenge my students, but also to broaden their horizon. To force them to think out of the box.
I show them the picture made by Gerhard Richter: “Betty”. At first glance, they think it is a picture, a “photo”. And are surprised when I tell them, it is an oilpainting. “Wow, how realistic, great artist, this guy knows how to do the job”.
Then I show them the other, abstract paintings of Richter. Without telling them that these paintings are made by the same artist. They are confused. They don’t have the experience in “seeing”, to judge these paintings, to “come to a verdict”.
And of course, to enlarge their confusion, I finally tell them, it’s the same artist.
Leonardo Da Vinci: “There are three classes of people: Those who see, Those who see when they are shown, Those who do not see.
Oil on canvas, 454 x 380 cm
Bethany was one of my fellow students at the artschool in Utrecht, the HKU (in the Netherlands). Bethany was and is extremely talented. She can do everything.
Draw, paint, etc. In our last year at the academy, she started with her “pinhole” photography. She made really small boxes with mirrors inside. And she made her own pinhole cameras, which she put inside her selfmade worlds. These cameras where covered with mirrors also, otherwise you could recognize them as cameras. They would become a part of the picture, so she had to disguise them.
With this technique, it looks like we are watching large en high rooms, as if we are in some kind of cathedral. We are part of the picture.
Nowadays her pinhole pictures are far more complicated. And Bethany also makes beautiful short animations, like “Red-End”.
Check her website: http://www.pinhole.nl/pages/intro.php
AND
Check this teaser of one of her animations:
Two pictures of my studio, my atelier, when I just moved in.
Actually, it’s a little bit me also. Because this is the place, where no one else but me, makes the decisions. My own free state, the total anarchy, do whatever you want, no one cares, no one knows. That sounds great, but it also means, that I am the only one responsible, when things go wrong. When I mess up my paintings. Nobody else to blame, that’s the down side.
On the other hand: my little kingdom.
Check this excerpt of the short animation of Floris Kaayk. A Dutch guy who makes wonderfull and strange animations.
