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EROSIONI, SOGLIE, SCONFINAMENTI
Schmuck Munich 2026
Booth B1 740
4-8 March 2026
art rotterdam
The Puyuan International Contemporary Jewellery Art and Design Biennale
from November 22 -2025 till February 22 -2026
Some of my works will be exhibited in the Netherlands Pavilion
Puyuan – China
more information
studiovisit 6 and 7 September
from 12.00 till 17.00 hrs
Windroosplein 77, 1017 ZZ Amsterdam
Article ‘Art Jewelry Quo Vadis?’- Art Aurea
About Dutch Masters
I call a series of brooches Dutch Masters, inspired by the idea that the image we have of a cow has been tilted.
All those idyllic landscape paintings from the 17th century and later show romantic scenes of cows and other cattle: it meant abundance, wealth, the land of milk and butter… after all, agriculture was circular back then.
Now the cow is seen as the culprit with its manure emissions and the associated nitrogen problem.
An image of a cow is placed on the NOS to visualize the nitrogen problem…
While we ourselves have turned the cow into a machine!
The brooches are about then and now.
The starting point is a Dutch master, a painting by a Dutch master from the 17th century or later. For example, I worked with Willem Maris (Rijksmuseum), Adriaen van de Velde (Louvre), Nicolaes Berchem, (private collection UK), Vincent van Gogh (Musee d’Art Moderne, Lille) and Jan Voerman (private collection NL)
I cover a photo of the painting with a piece of convex or concave acrylic, which works like a magnifying glass (or in the case of Maris as a reduction). The painting becomes a shiny gemstone. The image is somewhat concealed, so that the viewer has to do his best to recognize it as an old master.
Around this I compose elements that together tell the above story.
I respond to the painting with an abstract painting on aluminum.
Or I add a piece of cow leather.
Or I use a recent photo of grassland as a counterpart, again ‘set’ in acrylic.
A third element is tactile: gold-embroidered balsa wood or a piece of amber.
I hope to make the viewer think.
a time of seeing
A registration of my exhibition a time of seeing, in the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn,
(November 4, 2019 – March 1, 2020) is ready.
The film is made by Paul de Ruijter.
