Nico Emons

To Fake or not to Fake.

I have a rather complicated past when it comes to the development of my work. It went from painting to graphics, from realism to abstractions and back.

The final stage turned completely into reinterpretation.
This came about as a logical development from having studied art history.
This came by change when I heard about the possibility to join
as a visiting student.

As such I followed certain lectures and he quickly realised that I knew next to nothing about art history, so he decided to do the whole program.

At the same time I kept on working in his studio mostly doing painting, but at the beginning of the nineties PC’s came on the market at an affordable price, he also started working with graphical PC programs.

The painting was rather problematic in the sense that there was not a particular style, it went from one thing to another.
Finally, in 2006, I realised this must stop. At about 2016 I decided to concentrate at reinterpretations, which later became the dialogues.
Basically, these reinterpretations, which I call dialogues, of historic paintings are conceptual. The essence is the connection with the works of painters that have made their mark on the art world past and present.
And, eventually,...

Short Bio
Nico Emons (1948 Rotterdam Netherlands)
1965 Academy Rotterdam
1968 Free Academy The Hague
1976 Group exhibition A.D.I. Gallery in San Francisco California
1983-89 Art History at the University of Leiden
1993 Solo exhibition at Pulchri Studio Artists Society in The Hague
1995 First works made on computer
2010 Exhibition organized by VoeB, German Association of Public Banks at the office of the European Association of Public Banks in Brussels.
2010 Solo exhibition Pulchri Studio in The Hague
2012 Group exhibition MOCA New York