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Van Rijn positions his work within, beyond, aside and in front of everyday reality. Its content is fuelled by the ever recurring discussion on the end of art, which is taken as a metaphor for today's cultural and moral state of affairs. Currently his focus is on researching the cultural dimensions of Neo-Paganism, specifically Wicca or Modern Witchcraft. Stemming from the spiritual attitudes within early modernism, Wicca's sampling of existing 'traditions' into a new religious phenomenon has many tangents with today's artist practice. Through an output of text, images and performance, it puts forward challenging approaches to fundamental socio-cultural concepts such as time and history, nature and ecology, gender relations, spirituality and religion. Employing a wide range of media -from drawing to artists' publications and from installation to performance- Van Rijn's research explores Neo-Paganism as an invented revivalist tradition based on rejected knowledge.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Where there's no Gods, Ghosts rule
Etchings 2010



















 'Ghost of Rebellion'
etching, aquatint, stipple
20 x 30 cm.
2010


 
















'Ghost descending a staircase'
etching, aquatint, stipple
20 x 30 cm.
2010















'Lazy Ghost'
etching, aquatint, stipple
20 x 30 cm.
2010


















'Bored Ghost'
etching, aquatint, stipple
20 x 30 cm.
2010


















'Ghostly Couple'
etching, aquatint, stipple
20 x 30 cm.
2010
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Omega
VCA, Margareth Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Aus. 
26 March to 24 Apri l2010
Artists: Alain Declercq (France), Tony Garifalakis (Australia).Joaquin Segura (Mexico), Jeanne Susplugas (France), Ewoud Van Rijn (Netherlands).
Curator: Tony Garifalakis.













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