Jaap de Vries
Oranjeboomstraat 1
4814EE Breda
Netherlands (Nederland)
0031636181349
http://www.jaapdevries.eu
category: Painting
technique: Water Colour
Style: Modern
Statement:
Taken from the correspondence between Jaap de Vries and Leon Willigendael, May 2011
''(...) Also my work is exclusively about bodies. The very fact of the materials I use means that it’s more body than image. I interpret my visual motifs in bodily terms even if they are landscapes. Somehow a shadow always creeps in, wanting to turn everything into a crime scene or corpus delicti. It’s about a world dictated by dread, a fear that manipulates and traps bodies, and sweeps their mere suggestion under the carpet. Even something as simple but corporal as a bit of paint on aluminium is unacceptable in that world. Yet this is precisely what makes painting all the more attractive for me.
“Thanks to a Calvinist upbringing, I used to experience the dark side of what I’m describing (…) as being religiously driven. But now I simply regard it as being a politics of fear. The regime of representations that this kind of politics supports is morally sanctimonious: a hypocrisy that demands that anything too corporal should not be shown. And if it is shown and not covered up, then as if it’s in a garishly lit brothel and with the sole purpose of being used and lovelessly condemned. This purely concerns the images; reality is apparently much less important. Condemnation ultimately suffices; that’s all that’s required. So far as I’m concerned, this is where the betrayal of true innocence begins. It is precisely that kind of betrayal that causes darkness, mental deprivation and fear. For all kinds of reasons, that fear is also directed against the true art of painting. True attention, which can belong here, is - as we know - more feared than what you describe as “the rising tide of images”. Call it quixotic if you will, but in my opinion, the antidote to this involves a homeopathic exorcism. This generates an uncomfortable mirror. My venture could be seen as cynical or ironic, sarcastic or nihilist, and this is something that I’m painfully aware of. But the gaze defining this is also dictated by the accusing, normative gaze that I wish to ensnare. My work is not at all loveless. On the contrary. I find it fascinating that the politics of fear entails such a distorted gaze, and what’s even more fascinating is the resistance to painting that it engenders. Painting is quite simply an endeavour but, at the end of the day, it’s my stubbornly pursued, anti-political endeavour.
The shadow and the gaze that I’m describing are one and the same. Part of my venture is to chart the representations that they attach themselves to. I used to believe that the gaze and the shadow came from God but I now know that it’s our own godlessness. This godlessness is little more than a rejection of what makes us human. We know that, as an art, painting has always been part of our humanity. And that’s the way it will stay. If believing in it is a delusion, then everything we consider humane is also a delusion. I would rather exist in that lunacy than in the lunacy that denies what makes us human beings.”
Jaap de Vries
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
born: 15- 11- 1959, Renkum, the Netherlands
education: School of Arts �Sint Joost�, Breda
period: 1978 - 1983
department: painting
paintings in collections: (selection)
Jack Tilton Gallery NYC. S.M. Amsterdam, CALDIC Collection Rotterdam, AEGON collection and private collections in NL. BE. DE. UK and USA.
Activities:
• 2009 - Wim Izaks Stipendendium 2008
Exhibitions
• 2011 - PAINT ME A DRINK. 20 Hoxton Square Projects London
• 2011 - SHELTER, 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London. groeps-
• 2010 - September, Locuslux Gallery, Amsterdam, solo
• 2010 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London, solo
• 2010 - April, Locuslux Gallery, Brussels solo
• 2010 - Colorfilia #1, Boven’s Gallery, Amsterdam, groeps -
• 2009 - ‘Signatuur, kunstenaars/ collectie 1800 - heden’,NL
• 2009 - ‘Under the influence sale’ Phillips de Pury, NYC, USA
• 2009 - 'Wim Izaksstipend’ Pictura, Dordrecht/ Tricot, NL
• 2009 - ‘OOG in OOG’ (EYE in EYE), Stichting KOP, Breda, NL.
• 2009 - ‘ONE CAN OFTEN BE THWARTED BY …’, Prima Alonso, UK.
• 2008 - ‘Kapellmeister Pulls a Doozy’, Seven Seven UK
• 2008 - ‘I Pity Inanimate Objects’*, Planet Art. NL
• 2008 - ‘DUTCH LIGHT’* , LOCUSLUX, Brussels, BE
• 2008 - ‘SCOPE BASEL’, Saatchi Online, SW.
• 2007 - ‘Decadence, Decay and Demimonde’, the Home House, UK.
• 2007 - ‘The only body of importance to us….’*, 20 Hoxton UK.
Publications
• 2010 - CUT & PASTE, text Calandra Caldecot, London, UK.
• 2009 - Benjamin Roth, Houcine Bouchiba, Jaap de Vries’,
Wim Izaks Stipend 2008
• 2009 - SHINE ON’, Artists & Illustrators April ‘09,W. UK.
• 2007 - ‘JAAP DE VRIES/ LOCUSLUX’, catalogus Locuslux, BE.
Miscellaneous
• 2009 - Artists call, led by Alex de Vries, museum Pont.NL.
• 2009 - Eindexamen gecommitteerde Beeldende Kunst, AVANS,
• 2009 - Artists call together with Benjamin Roth and Houcine Bouchiba, led by Rob Smolders, Dordrecht.
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