The past inside the present
By: Esther Tielemans ; authors, Maria Barnas, Hans den Hartog Jager
Series: Onomatopee -- 139; Onomatopee (Series) -- no. 139.
Publisher: Onomatopee
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Language: dut; eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9789491677717
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Catalogs; Dutch Art; Modern Art
Description: Art is artificial; it is a fake version of reality. The imagery of art represents, illustrates suggests and provides stillness -- it sharpens our perspectives and deepens the experience of reality. Esther Tielemans's work aligns opposites, like the two- and three-dimensional, the abstract and figurative, reality and artificiality. It forms an environment in which the experience of the new precedes the habitual of the familiar. The authors of this book, Maria Barnas and Hans den Hartog Jager, describe their findings in a personal, poetic and investigative manner; while being supported by art history references and other cultural phenomena. Their in-depth approach illustrates how this body of work lets our perpetual sense of reality slip as it invades our senses. Yet this extraordinary environment, that grounds the past in the present, is simultaneously undetermined as it feels close to our sense of particularity. Where we are is suddenly different from where we once were.
Notes: Parallel text in Dutch and English.
Table of contents: title: The river that flowed the wrong way = De rivier die de verkeerde kant opging / Maria Barnas; title: 2017; title: 2017, 2016, 2015; title: 2015; title: 2014, 2012; title: 2012, 2011; title: 2011, 2010, 2008; title: 2008, 2007, 2005, 2003; title: 2003; title: The in-between = Tussen ruimte / Hans den Hartog Jager; title: Works 2017-2003; title: Exhibitions and collections; title: Colophon.