- Biography
My installations, 2D wall reliefs and works on paper consist of various parts of the body drawn on the basis of MRI-, CT scans and autopsy images. These drawings show internal interwovenness, fusion, and a transparently overlapping convergence of bodies. With my ‘open’ bodies, I appeal to sexual passion and a longing for spiritual affection.
‘Scanning for symbiosis’ is the coordinating title for the drawings I have been working on in the past period of time. Besides considering Scanning as an intrinsic theme, I also conceive the act of drawing as the investigation of processes of interhuman convergence.
I look upon my drawings as temporary fusions, as stills from film shootings. In order to show different sorts of convergence, I navigate my way through Plato’s ideas as represented in ‘The steps of love’. Between the higher spiritual and the lower sexual form of love, various body shapes float or entwine across or alongside each other in transparency. In other works, the bodies melt together like temporary eliminations of individuals, as if in euphoria transferred to the domain of orgasmic delight.
I reinforce the experience of the internal body by creating installations and wall reliefs which are larger than the visitor. By employing this monumental scale, I enhance the physical experience of the visitor. I hope that my work will initially be experienced ‘from the abdomen’, to gradually make itself felt in the mind of the visitor.
I play with ambiguous and ambivalent tendencies, such as the symbolic meaning of red, the beauty of transected bodies and parts of the body situated outside that body. Loveliness and morbidity; both Eros and Thanatos flow through my red lines.
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- Curriculum Vitae
Joris Kuipers
Nijmegen,1977
Education
2001-2003 Frank Mohr Instituut, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, MFA Painting.
1995-1999 Artez, Arnhem
Exhibitions
2011
Preludium, Gallery 10, Utrecht
RE:Rotterdam, groupshow, Lantaarn Venster, Rotterdam
Flowers!, Groupshow, Museum de Buitenplaats, Eelde
Drawing Art Fair, CBK Schiedam, Schiedam
2010
Anatomy of Desire, solo exhibition Gallery 10, Utrecht
Enigma, group exhibition TENT, Rotterdam
Alles is goed hier, group exhibition Gallery 300%, Rotterdam
Art flow for Pakistan (charity auction), NAI, Rotterdam
We like 6%, group exhibition, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam
2009
Solo presentation at Art Amsterdam, presented by Gallery 10, Amsterdam
The Nethelands – Iraq Cultural Exhibition, The Atrium of The Haque City Hall,
Den Haag
2008
Niemand is ooit verdwaald, groupshow Pakt, Amsterdam
Leibhaftigkeit, Duo presentation with A. Kellner, LCC Rotterdam, Rotterdam
De schepping in 6+1 weken, CBK Middelburg, Middelburg
Body contrasts Nature, Galerie 300%, Rotterdam
Drie, groupshow, curated by Jan van der Ploeg, Chielerie, Amsterdam
Disembodyment, duo exhibition with J. Krebbekx, Galerie 10, Utrecht
2007
W139 Basement, groupshow, Amsterdam
Ground Two Festival, Villa Ockenburgh, Den Haag
2006
Solopresation, invited by Paul Mertz, Amsterdam
Menselijke Analyse, groupshow during the The Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
2005
‘Rubens en tijdgenoten’, Art Affairs, Amsterdam
Confrontaties in zwart, wit en transparant, Art Affairs, Amsterdam
2004
‘Rubens en tijdgenoten’, invited by Paul Mertz, Amsterdam
2003
‘Coming out’ Groupshow, guestcurator Elly Stegeman, Groningen.
Solo exhibition, Gallery Sign, Groningen.
‘Outframed’, Gallery Jacoba Wijk, Groningen.
2002
‘Open house’ Groupshow, guestcurator Ellen de Bruijne, Groningen.
‘Hidden’ Groupshow, guestcurator Elly Stegeman, Groningen.
Projects
2008
Grenzeloze creativiteit, convention, Rotterdam
Into the Hearts / Scanning for symbiosis I, 9 Straatjes Rood project by
Vodafone, Amsterdam
Mentorship by Jan van der Ploeg via Kunstenaars&Co, Amsterdam
Publications/Cataloques
2011
Bookpresentation Gallery 10, Utrecht
2010
Photograph in ‘Art Fairs’ by Dolph Kessler
Review (Enigma) NRC Handelsblad & NRC Next
2009
Review Tableau Fine Arts Magazine
2008
Review Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant
Review Blend Magazine
Catalogue Negen Straatjes Rood project, Vodafone
2007
Catalogue Ground Two Festival, The Hague
2003
Catalogue Final Presentation Frank Mohr Institute, Goningen
Catalogue Waddenkunstprijs, Harlingen
