Ongoing series of Artist Portraits, originally commissioned by ARTISTS NOT ARMIES. All digital collages of this series follow the same concept; an Artist Portrait in which the face of the artist is replaced by one of their most significant artworks. Printed as high quality Giclée Print: Klein Imaging Smooth Rag 300gsm. Limited editions.

Artist Portraits

Several books have been assembled in these readymades, all with the same painting as cover illustration. Independent of each other, the publishers have chosen the exact same painting as a front. These ready mades question the autonomy of art, the tension between intention and context.

Book Covers

For this series has been chosen specifically for religious and mythological images. However, by placing the figures - each appropriated from classic paintings - behind a geometric grid contrasting associations arise. The analog pixels that appear due to the distortion of the plastic prism plate act like the scrambled image of a suspect. But at the same time, the plate also seems to work as a protection of the vulnerable. Is this series about censoring the religious or is it rather an attempt to protect the weak? The grid over the classic paintings also emphasises the geometric composition that has been used. Or does it expose an underlying matrix, a metaphysical network that’s being uncovered…

Prismatic Works

Street Art +

All photo works from the ‘Coffee to go’ series are designed with 3D software. Works that deal with public vs private space. Due to the combination of porcelain coffee cup with plastic to go lid do these ‘computer generated’ images’ have a surreal tension. Is it the confused older man who leaves his house with his coffee? Is it a social protest against the daily rat race or consumer society? The traditional versus the industrial?

The ‘Coffee to go’ photo works have all been produced in an edition of 10 - as high-quality photo prints on aluminum with Plexiglass.

Coffee to go

New works from the 'CLR BLND' series, which has been exhibited at Art The Hague earlier this year. With spray paint on underlayment executed designs (using lasercut stencils) in which color blindness in art history formed the starting point.

CLR BLND

The Designer Sick Bags highlight the plight of anorexia and bulimia in the fashion industry to question our modern beauty ideal, as well as our desire to design everything, even trivial objects. The choice between different brands and different color / style bags only emphasises this in a tongue-in-cheek manner.

Roberto Voorbij