Fascinated by the natural world, Joel Rea paints the pulsing elemental forces of our planet interplaying with human relationships formed in our society and consciousness. Driven to explore universal meanings around the human condition, Joel is also interested in depicting the underlying inner forces which drive human behaviour.
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Looking at the ‘Nudes’ painted by artist Victoria Selbach , we find ourselves caught in an intimate moment. With her play of light and shadow Victoria Selbach has created a composition that seems to put us in a casual, yet intense moment.
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Joost Goudriaan finds that ‘The public space in Rotterdam is loaded with objects, functional yet often unnoticed. The city of Rotterdam, always seeming to be desperately seeking her new ‘heart’, supplies her many excavations with street furniture without thinking about the charisma of the street level. The sky seems to be the limit, and the eye level remains forgotten.’.
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Whether the figures are carried towards the sky or just holding on to umbrellas, sailing downward is up to the viewer to decide. ‘Slight Uncertainty’ the installation by Czech artist Michal Trpák is called and the viewer can’t be quite be sure of what is happening here. Trpák installs his sculptures almost exclusively in public places.
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As a child the artist Sammy Slabbinck is so fascinated by magazines from the 60s and 70s that he begins collecting them and basically everything with a certain vintage chic. Later on he decides to cut the collected magazines into pieces, redistributing them and putting them into collages with old photographs.
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The artwork of IDIOTS, a group consisting of three artists, is terrifying and disturbingly beautiful at once. Afke Golsteijn, Ruben Taneja and Floris Bakker create art made of a mixture of sculpture, handicraft, jewellery, and taxidermy. Exotic Birds become precious windup toys sitting on glass branches embroidered with pearls and jewels.
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The Polish artist Jarek Puczel catches the calmness of apparently simple and unspectacular situations with an impressive modesty and apparent ease. He creates an interesting and tense moment, which we can neither escape nor interpret appropriately.
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As shocking as Ron Mueck’s figurative sculptures of seemingly limitless format may be, at the same time they are, because of their absurdness, amusing in their very own way. Partly orienting himself by photographs, Mueck especially approaches specific physically significant moments in time in a human beings life.
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During his March 2013 visit to Minneapolis at the Walker Art Center, Amsterdam-based artist/designer Job Wouters – better known as Letman – created a hand-painted mural in the Walker lobby.
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‘Bang’ is Ai Weiwei’s contribution to this years Venice Art Biennale. Consisting of 886 traditionally handcrafted wooden stools ‘Bang’ seems like a huge ongrowing organism, like a cluster, caught in a room.
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