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.
Shredded Halo Markers on Paper, 120 x 170 cm., 2012
Sorry! Silkscreen print, 29,7 x 21 cm., ed.10, 2012
Rag Rings Edding markers-paper, 120 x 170, 2012
Rag A
Ink-paper, 110 x 110, 2012
Rag Euro Ink-paper, 110 x 110, 2012
Rag alphabetlithographs For future textpieces i am developing a whole alphabet in lithographs at the grafische werkplaats in The Hague, NL Lithograph printed on 250 gms. BFK Rives Arches, 2012
PrintRoom@Liste Basel 2012
Rag Euro and Fungod@studiopresentation 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Exhibitions, Projects 2012
Contemporary Surrealist Drawingsfrom the collection of the Boijmans van Beuningen museum, Rotterdam, NL (curated by Sjarel Ex)
Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
March 1 - April 13, 2012
The Tapeworm # 38
With special Pooman design for the cover titled:
'The tapewyrm will drive out any stuck up turd with fragrant sounds!'.
On the tape music by Achim Mohné. Titled 'And it could have been dead...'
To be ordered at www.tapeworm.org.uk
