For my artworks I find inspiration in travels to different countries that have included China, Mongolia, Honduras, Mexico and India. These find my interest because traces of their past have not vanished in daily life but are often left in their rough and original states. This differs from European countries where so much of the past seems covered, cleaned up and polished. I find it interesting to see how people have lived and are living now. Silent witnesses of human activities in the present but especially in the past. The history that can be read from finds such as old shipwrecks on a beach in China, activities of nomads in India. I call them 'archaeological observations' and the resulting work is a hushed residue. I want to pass on some of those observations to the rest of the world.
10dence platform
10dence platform - Contemporary Transitions of understanding international contemporary art exhibition with a focus on the display of artistic reflections on natural order, balance, adaptation, and the cyclic nature of things has been set up and we are ready to go public. A highly interesting exhibition developed in collaboration with an international group of artists. Natural Equilibrium - Contemporary transitions of understanding will take place from September 29 till October 20, 2024 at CC Beringen in Beringen in Belgium. How can these natural processes be visualized and explained in contemporary art? Artistic research into reaching equilibrium by responding, adjusting, and adapting to stimulus, actions or interventions is nature’s way of doing things. Nature’s single most characteristic cycle - the birth-growth-decay-death and birth again. In the end, it is all about humans and the responsibilities associated with human actions - either in applying the equilibrium principle to understand nature and harness its resources, or in conserving and sustaining the beauty of natural canvas for the future. Human behavior - actions, reactions, and associated uncertainties - is much more difficult to understand than physics of nature and its uncertainty. Participating artists: Ike Inge Aerden – B, Francis Beaty – USA, Joël Bonk – NL, Evelyne Dominault – F, Marijke Henkens – B, Bea Last – UK, Paul Lorenz – USA, Nobxhiro Mido – JP, Petra Moll – IE, Susumu Ohira – JP, Frédérique Rennuit – B, Marieta Reijerkerk – NL, Larisa Sjoerds – NL, Frans van Viegen – NL, Ron Weijers – NL, Madeleine Wories – USA
Van 29th of September 2024 t/m 20th of October 2024
