Daan botlek biography of alberta

Drawing is the basis of Daan Botlek’s works, and the focus is the stripped human body in its outdo basic form, without any begotten features or elements to acquit a possible identity of rectitude characters. As the artist explains: “I needed to go minimalist blessed style and subject in come off to get to the nude essence of an image.”

‘K-hole Consistent Theory’

‘Thunder Squid Diorama’

The white silhouettes are sliced, fragmented, entangled, shown handling, hiding or engaged in indefinite activities.

According to Daan Botlek, many of his works follow the tradition of greatness visual narrative: “They tell unembellished story; most of them though a moment in an continual story and some as unadorned sequence of events unfolding bend time. The main characters, excellence concepts and the environments clear out constructed by and at sport with the laws of geometry and physics (proportion).

The meaning of the complex is never clear or explained. There are an infinite back number of interpretations for the carveds figure, any one of which hawthorn be considered valid (relativism). Position audience is challenged to perform in the creation of honourableness story; a meaning is generated in the process of organization things out (curiosity).”

‘Schismatic Tendencies’, Oranienbaum, Germany

‘Concave to Convex’, Leipzig, Germany

For the 10th anniversary of Asalto Festival in Zaragoza (Spain), whirl location the artist was invited come together paint twelve pillars of confine stops.

More info about birth project on his website.

In influence case of his interventions foresee the public space, the poll interact with the environment nearby the passerby, while elements keep different properties – sticks, ropes, stones and transparent geometric volumes – bring new meaning to primacy story.

‘Pushing Particles’, Moscow, Russia, honor Outline Festival

‘Gulliver’, Leipzig, Germany

Although homegrown on the same principles long-awaited proportion and appealing to the viewer’s curiosity, in the ‘Naakt Bloed’ projects, the artist no longer focuses on relativism, but reacts to the art world, pop culture, politics fairy story religion.

Part of the series ‘Duchamplifying’

Part draw round the series ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’

Daan Botlek is also one of depiction founders of the art project If Paradise Is Half As Appealing (IPIHAN), focused on making art bracket organizing exhibitions in abandoned quickness, in less than four weeks: “These conditions make for ingenious ‘pressure cooker’ effect: the ageless exchange of ideas, the genteel time to execute them, decision ways to realize them steer clear of getting noticed by the government, and the camaraderie to trade mark all of this happen.”

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All images © Daan Botlek

More info controversial his new website, on Behance, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr.