Sat 19 November
Soloshow Eric Jan van de Geer - Private Landscape
In his work Van de Geer (1965) concentrates on things and their visualization. However, it cannot be pinned down to one artistic technique. The starting point of his investigations are summary Polaroid photographs.
In these, he focuses on objects, surfaces, structures, and spatial situations, using extreme close-ups that are difficult to locate or to relate to a specific context in time and space. Out of focus images, double exposures, and underexposed areas on the picture annoyingly stand in the way of the sort of perception which aims at recognition. For the artist it is a question of changing the course of the dialogue between the viewer and photography from a unambiguous definition of the object of the image to a reciprocal relation between the viewer and the viewed. The direction and the course of this interaction remain open.
The photographs are the starting point for further interventions. The pictures undergo different manipulations with digital imaging, painterly means or graphic techniques. By choosing the simplest, least spectacular subjects from his everyday environment, he creates a framework of the familiar and the ordinary. The things he depicts couldn’t be more common and mundane: a wooden garden fence, a children’s swing, a table lamp, a chair, a suit on a coat hanger. He shows things from practical life, fully cut off from their narrative context. But as a result of the deliberately imperfect quality of the photos, Eric Jan van de Geer achieves a first alienation in the relation between image and reality. The documentary character of photography is called into question. Subsequently the artist deploys an analytical method: the image is digitalized, decomposed into planes en printed onto separate sheets of foil. Then these planes are recombined, first on an overhead projector and then on silk screen prints. The overlapping and layering of the different planes leads to a further process of shifts and alienations in relation to the original image. This produces three-dimensional effects, while on the other hand colour or structural accents on the skin of the image make it appear flat. This process allows the artist to penetrate the microstructure of each object and to create a new structural whole by recombining the different planes.
Opening Saturday 19.11.2011 - 17:00 | 19:00 h Soloshow Private Landscape by Eric Jan van de Geer
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