Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hans Withoos’ career spans more than twenty years in which he satisfyingly combined his commissione...
About the artist
Joined In 2017
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About the artist
Joined In 2017
(45 Followers)
Hans Withoos’ career spans more than twenty years in which he satisfyingly combined his commissioned work with his autonomous work. Although highly successful in his commercial and international fashion work with clients from Brasil to Spain to Italy, the United States and Morocco, he also is prolific in his autonomous work, making many photography series over the years.mostly situated in recognizable places and cities around the world. His fascination is with beauty in all its aspects, The beauty of drama, the beauty of the body and the beauty of light as well as As the ‘beauty of suffering’ in seen in his serie ‘’Nocturnal Delight’’ based on the seven deadly sins..) the beauty of strength seen in his serie New Romantics and Lady with her golden toys.. The beauty of symbolism in his newest work Withoos meets Withoos, stilllifes
Even this stilllifes are recognizable for his work, same dramatic light and fullcof layering.
Hans Withoos’ photography is set in the world of abundance and artifice--the smell of decadence wafts towards the viewer. It is a world simultaneously familiar and different. In Withoos’ exaggerated scenes, the figures crowding the images become archetypes, and the viewer is overcome by a sense of alie...
Academy of Visual Arts, Tilburg, the Netherlands 1983-1989
2017 Solo Withoos $ Withoos Museum Flehite Ammersfoort
2016 artfair: Art Amsterdam and Pan Amterdsam by Eduard Planting
group Staging and Revelation –IV AFK Gallery Lissabon
group FAT Art & fashionweek Toronto Canada
group NORMAL Paris France
artfair AAF Brussel, AAF Miami USA; AAF New-York USA;AAF Hong-Kong by Ronen art Gallery
artfair PAN Amsterdam Eduard Planting Art Gallery
Solo My name is Blessing Doemuseum Veendam
Solo Withoos – Withoos ;Eduard Planting Galery Amsterdam
Solo Proud People Rabobank Breda
Solo Proud People NL+US Rotterdam
Past exhibitions
2015 Group FAT Art & fashionweek Toronto Canada
Solo Dudok Arnhem i.s.m Orange Babies
Artfair: PAN Amsterdam, realisme beurs
2014 Artfairs RAW Rotterdam, KunstRAI, PAN Amsterdam
Group FAT Art & fashionweek Toronto Canada
Group Royal Ontario Museum Toronto Canada
DUO ‘Revisiting the golden Age’, Weissenbruchzaal Pulchri Den Haag
Solo NL=US Art consultancy Rotterdam ‘’My name is Blessing’ i.s.m Stichting Orange Babies
2013 Solo: NEW ROMANTICS’ Eduard Planting.
Solo Fashion and Photoraphy’ Red Penguin Galery Marbella
Group Miniature Museum in Haags Museum februari 2012
Group FAT Art & fashionweek Toronto Canada
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