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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.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Large Format Etchings  2011

Status Quo (studioshot)
handcoloured line  etching
50 x 40 cm
2011

Hopeless (studioshot)
handcoloured line  etching
50 x 40 cm
2011

Deserve 2 (studioshot)
handcoloured line  etching
40 x 45 cm
2011

 
Deserve 1 (studioshot)
handcoloured line  etching
40 x 50 cm
2011 
 
 
Eternal Return of the Living Dead (studioshot)
line and roulette etching
40 x 50 cm
2011 
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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Small format etchings 2011

 
Art Dead, Punk No Longer
softground and sugarlift etching
15 x 25 cm.
2011

Art Dead, Punk No Longer
ink  paper 
25 x 19 cm.
2011

 
Ghost of the great Living Dead God
line / roulette / aquatint etching (two plates)
30 x 20 cm.
2011 

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