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Sugar In My Bowl - Limited Edition of 1 Artwork

Marit Otto

Netherlands

Mixed Media, Screenprinting on Canvas

Size: 47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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Presenting to you number 4 of the Heroes series. Here is my tribute to Nina Simone. Sugar In My Bowl. As far as my own created selection criteria goes; for me she is a (anti) hero, heroin for more than one reason. Here is a black woman who became a classic scolared musician, but not without a fight. After high school and the New York School of Arts she applied to the Curtis Institute Of Music In Philadelphia. They turned her down because she was black. This painful experience had a big influence on her and finally made her an activist singer. I am a white privileged woman, but a woman. And I too had to put up a fight to get where I am today. Besides, every woman understands a fight for any equality even if it is not her own. Looking back in my own history I see a chain of bright and ventures women. The ones I know my mother and grandmothers were not able to get married and be independent at the same time. I am one of the first one in the chain who is. Inspired on their stories and woman like Nina Simone, I feel this battle for equality strongly. Nina Simone was beautiful, gifted and militant at the same time. Her exceptional voice reached far all by it self but she pushed het talent and boundaries and used it to provoke and change.

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Mixed Media:

Screenprinting on Canvas

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47.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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I can experience art on many levels and in many different ways. Then I look for aesthetics and eloquence but also for a particular angle. I make contemporary engaged art. It has a certain urgency. It is reflecting us, people and the zeitgeist. Images speak louder than words and basically appeal very directly to our feelings. My images are something of a mix between activism and philosophy, they want to engage in dialogue.” I am born in Hoorn (NH) (1970) and have been working as a visual artist since 1994. My studio is located at the Rieteweg 10 in Zwolle. I am a multidisciplinary artist. My autonomous work includes painting, collage, installation, digital art, photo manipulation, video art and 3d. I also work on commission and on a project basis. Typical for my autonomous work is the key role for man in its shape and behaviour. It is often a reflection of current social themes, but also mundane and personal issues are important sources of inspiration. Through small interventions, repetitions, inversions, or breaking surfaces with architectural forms, a new image is created in a somewhat familiar image. Although my work can be seen as aesthetic, it often conceals certain uneasiness, abrasive aesthetics. This duality or ambiguity is also a recurring theme. Do you see what you see? The resulting images are often on the cutting edge of fiction, realism, graphic and plastic. Contemporary (sur)realist?- My work cannot be placed in a tradition or movement. There are certainly surrealistic elements in my work and occasionally some abstraction, but in terms of style I draw from (contemporary) realism. Until now, I have been able to express myself best in the figurative, although I do not rule out anything for the future. As far as I am concerned, art is fluid and and artist never stop evolving. I do not wish to limit myself, neither to a medium, nor to autonomous art. I see myself much more as a conduit of concepts and ideas. Often my ideas are interspersed with philosophical questions and/or social themes that occupy me. I therefore sometimes set myself the task of casting these in project form, if only within the limitations of visual art. This has resulted in a number of projects varying from social to future-oriented.

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