Cis Bakker

ARTIST STATEMENT

Letting go. Freedom. Transience.

Cis' main inspiration in her work, her view on profession and life, is the expression of meaning, through experiment, stumbling upon and meaningful coincidence, combined with an intense love for light, colors and the trivial. Art to Cis, is a necessity; spiritual food to nourish humanity, to reflect and strive for growth.

Recycling is a very important pillar of her work; “Every unchancy work can be the breeding ground for a better.” Other pillars are eclecticism, contrast - opposites, continuous reinvention, transformation, chronological development, and a tendency to illustrate the existential.

“I am the illustrator of my own life, and the universally sensible, recognizable. I paint and draw. Dealing with dilemmas I solved through interpretations, angles of view that present themselves simultaneously in color, shape, diffuse, let exist besides and mixed together. A layered space, with facets that according to the point of view (mood, day, actuality) put a different emphasis on a possible explanation or meaning. This is the best possible freedom for me, to lose in, in this way, a multi-interpretable reality”.

Experimenting and storytelling through an internal d...

1978 - 1983 Utrecht Artschool, Netherlands

1985 - 1987 CPDB teaching degree, Arnhem

1992 Digital image exploration course, ABK Rotterdam

1993 - 1997 University of Humanist studies

Group exhibitions:

2010
participating with 4 selected digital collages
Storm Galerie, Amsterdam

2010
Open Art Fair (1 painting selected)
Jaarbeurs, Utrecht

2010
Bagage/Luggage. A travelling exhibition on railway stations around Dutch/German border
(participating with three spatial collages)
MIKC, Delden

2010
CU in AL (participating with one site specific spatial collage), Stichting Sophia, Archimedeslaan Utrecht

2011
Te Hooi en te Kunst (selected with one on site installation: Veggie Plea,1) in a cowstable, Kamerik

2011
BYOB, Utrecht (participating with short stopmotion animation)

2011
Xpozz, Utrecht (participating with several digital and spatial collages and 2 installations. Veggie Plea 2 & Water-val)

2012
Eendags Ruimtelijk (participating with one site specific spatial collage), CBKU, Plompetorengracht, Utrecht

2012
Het Blauwe Uur/ The Blue Hour. Dreaming with the camera. (selected with 3 digital collages)
Tresoar museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

2013
Festival de Basis. Festivalshop Soesterberg. (selected with 3d collage design Dualist Necklace)
Soesterberg former American Air basis

2013
Paper goods : Contemporary Collage (selected with one digital collage), online curate...