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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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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Working on a new series of large format ink drawings, as a follow up to the etchings titled 'Where there's no Gods, Ghosts rule'.


Rag Euro
ink on paper
180 x 120 cm. 
2011
















Working on Progress (studio shot)
2011


Progress
Ink on paper
110 x 150 cm. approx
2011

Modernism in Rags
Ink on paper
110 x 150 cm. approx
2011


Mors est Mihi Vita
Ink on paper
110 x 150 cm. approx
2011
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Monday, July 05, 2010

Drypoint Demons


drypoint
15 x 10 and 10 x 15 cm. 
2010 and 2011


 demon of the day 1

 selfportrait as a ghost


 Liar

 Demondog

 Donalddemon

Aleister Crowley the Demon
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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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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Remnants of the Golden Age
Uschi Kolb Galerie Haus Schneider,
Karlsruhe, DE, September 22 - november 6 2009.




Great, acrylics - paper, 250 x 170 cm, 2009




OK, acrylics - paper, 175 x 250 cm, 2009




Alright, acrylics - paper, 250 x 170 cm, 2009













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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Booth of Seventeen gallery, London, UK
Art Rotterdam, 2009 

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

 Boijmans van Beuningen Museum,
Rotterdam, 2008

 

'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008



'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008



'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008



'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008



'Reality...',watersoluble paints/ink-paper, 240 x 350 cm., 2008



'In Hell', watersoluble paints/ink-paper, 240 x 350 cm., 2008



'Ghost of the Dead Painter', watersoluble paints/ink-paper, 160 x 160 cm., 2008



'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008



'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008


'Through Hell and High Water' installation @ Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 2008
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Saturday, December 01, 2007

Mooi van Ver 
'Artistic Suicide'
Tent, Rotterdam 
2007, NL


'Mooi van Ver', Tent, Rotterdam, 2007, NL




'Artistic Suicide' , Tent, Rotterdam, 2007, NL




'Artistic Suicide', Tent, Rotterdam, 2007, NL




'Artistic Suicide', Tent, Rotterdam, 2007, NL
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