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Switzerland
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.6 D in
Ships in a Crate
Living in China for four years made me think about Europe, where I come from. How similar so many things are, in China as in Europe, even though everybody, both in China and in "the West" is talking incessantly about what is different. But the differences are all cultural in nature. Important, but not of core importance. So I decided to make a series of portraits, of people we in the West would instantly recognize as European, yet, whose actions and thoughts could easily be transferred to the Chinese context. Machiavelli is in this of course a prime example. I do hope that combining these Europeans with 'China', will have the viewer reasses the stories he or she has in his or her mind about China, about identity, about similarities and dissimilarities.
Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:39.4 W x 47.2 H x 1.6 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:Switzerland.
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Switzerland
“Nothing we use or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses” (Hannah Arendt) Therefore, I use not words, but images. I am a storytelling artist, I was told, and I agree utterly with that. But I do not want to tell a story. I want to hint at a story. Combine fragments of stories into a strong image that can maybe spur the viewer to make a new one, or at least question, maybe even augment the one (s)he has in his or her head. Maybe that, which I want to show about humans and their stories, is ambiguous. I know that our identity, be that individual, local, national or global, is a story. Yet. I believe that story. I need it myself too. We all need to be a story. Yet. It is just a story. An amalgam of choices, connections, way of presenting that cannot be defined as ‘the truth’ but isn’t a lie either. Something that is all together not present in the world, in the way that it is something you cannot touch, yet at the same time it is very present as is steers our actions and thoughts. Those of you and me as well as industry and nation leaders. We are a storytelling species. We naturally try to connect everything we see, everything around us, into a storyline. It is by connecting things into stories that we make our greatest discoveries, and make our gravest mistakes. Whenever I am painting or drawing I am saying: “Now try to make a story out of this!” I am ever on the search to make my images stronger. I am a Dutch artist, travelling the world with my wife. Have been livng and working in the Netherlands, in China and now in Switserland. Moving from order to chaos and back again. Artists I look up to and am inspired by are; Cy Twombly, Basquiat, Daniel Richter, Adrian Ghenie, Francis Bacon.
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