Click on a thumbnail to see a full image of each piece.
 `Doll With Red Mouth' Photograph |
 `Feet' Photograph |
 `Arms And Legs' Photograph |
 `Poppenkoppen' Photograph |
 `Pets' Photograph |
 `Beasts 1' Acrylics On Canvas |
 `Beasts In Water' Acrylics On Canvas |
 `Teddies' Installation With Teddies Made Out Of Meat |
 `Chicken With Open Mouth' Photographs |
 `Flowers, Chicken And Feet' Photograph |
DESCRIPTION OF MY WORK:
In my work I use common images to show my conception of my surrounding. My most important topic is the surroundings created and manipulated by men. I am fascinated by it's artificiality and it's ambiguity. I'm trying to dismantle the things of their spotless clarity and to represent as keenly as possible the tension between cosiness and pityless perversion.
I see an example of this artificial and ambiguous world in toys, which I use regularily in my work.For instance the close up of a doll (slide nr.1) where the skin seeme to be real. The difference between life and death then becomes blurred. The doll (slide nr.4) seeme to really see with her plastic eyes. For the onlooker this suggests a strangeness which undermines your association with plastic eyes.
I often focus on things that one doesn't want to see that closely. By enlarging my photographs I contribute to the dematerialisation of the object and intensify at the same time the extrem reality.I often use animals outside of the usual context. They are simplyfied and idealised imitations of the `real' environment, animated with human qualities.I am fascinated by the modern human being who isn't aware of the reality of its things anymore. For us fauna consists of the easterbunny, elephants printed on curtains and Mickey Mouse.
| Born 1/15/1970 in Zurich, Switzerland | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1990 - 1995 | Art academy `Minerva'in Groningen (Holland) |
| 1Jan - June 94 | Exchange term at the ` Cooper Union Academy of Science and Art' in New York |
| 1987 - 1988 | Exchange student at a high school in Kansas (USA) |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| Sept. 1996 |
Center of Fine Art, Groningen `Cindy, Nancy, Tina, Paul en Mike' |
| MISC. | |
| Feb. 1995 | origin of the artists group GR95 of which I am part
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| Oct.-Jan. 96 | working in New York
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| Aug. 1995 | granted a state scholarship from`The Netherlands Foundation
for Fine Arts,Design and Architecture
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| Oct. 1996 | nominated for the `Koninklijke Subsidie' at the royal
palace, Amsterdam
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| SELECTED GROUP SHOWS | |
| June 1993 |
participation in the exhibition `business Art/Art business'
at the groninger museum lead by Mark Kostabi
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| May 1994 |
participation in the group exhibition `X/Change' at the
Cooper Union, New York
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| 24 Dec. 94 |
presentation of my video `eyescape' at the film/club
Faellanden (CH)
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| Jan. 1995 |
participation in the `one hour art show' at Arti et
Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
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| March 1995 |
solo exhibition in the gallery `Voor U',Amsterdam June 1995
final examination exhibition of `Minerva'
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| Aug. 1995 |
participation in the `L. Aeschliman Corti Stipendium
Ausstellung' at the Kunsthalle, Bern
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| Dec.-Jan. 96 |
participation in the exhibition `Zuercher Kunstszene 95 / 96'
at the Helmhaus, Zuerich
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| May 1996 |
groupexhibition GR95 at the Art Center Niggendijker,
Groningen (NL)
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| Nov. 1996 |
participation in the exhibition `ontpoppen' at the University
of Groningen
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| April 1997 |
participation in the `L. Aeschliman Corti Stipendium
Ausstellung' at the Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH)
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| May 1997 |
participation in the exhibition `Caleidoscoop' at the Center
of Fine Art, Groningen
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| May 1997 |
participation in the Art Fair, Amsterdam
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| June 1997 |
participation in the `Eidgenoessischer Wettbewerb fuer freie
Kunst `97 ' at the Art Fair in Basel (CH)
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