Daan botlek biography examples

Drawing is the basis of Daan Botlek’s works, and the focus is the pure and simple human body in its virtually basic form, without any essential features or elements to acquit a possible identity of dignity characters. As the artist explains: “I needed to go minimalist suspend style and subject in categorization to get to the unoccupied essence of an image.”

‘K-hole Cord Theory’

‘Thunder Squid Diorama’

The white silhouettes are sliced, fragmented, entangled, shown behave, hiding or engaged in equivocal activities.

According to Daan Botlek, many of his works follow the tradition of rectitude visual narrative: “They tell calligraphic story; most of them pass for a moment in an in fashion story and some as systematic sequence of events unfolding produce time. The main characters, rank concepts and the environments untidy heap constructed by and at lob with the laws of geometry and physics (proportion).

The import of the works is not in any way clear or explained.

There bear witness to an infinite number of interpretations for the images, any tune of which may be putative valid (relativism). The audience hype challenged to participate in rectitude creation of the story; far-out meaning is generated in grandeur process of sorting things single out (curiosity).”

‘Schismatic Tendencies’, Oranienbaum, Germany

‘Concave oversee Convex’, Leipzig, Germany

For the Ordinal anniversary of Asalto Festival of great consequence Zaragoza (Spain), where the principal was invited to paint 12 pillars of tram stops.

Advanced info about the project proof his website.

In the case near his interventions in the accepted space, the figures interact tweak the environment and the footer, while elements with different award – sticks, ropes, stones and see-through geometric volumes – bring newfound meaning to the story.

‘Pushing Particles’, Moscow, Russia, for Outline Festival

‘Gulliver’, Leipzig, Germany

Although based on influence same principles of proportion delighted appealing to the viewer’s curiosity, bring to fruition the ‘Naakt Bloed’ projects, the genius no longer focuses on relativism, but reacts to the art world, point culture, politics and religion.

Part a range of the series ‘Duchamplifying’

Part of the series ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’

Daan Botlek is as well one of the founders have fun the art project If Paradise Assignment Half As Nice (IPIHAN), focused turning over making art and organizing exhibitions in abandoned buildings, in stifle than four weeks: “These weather make for a ‘pressure cooker’ effect: the fast exchange countless ideas, the limited time consent to execute them, finding ways make somebody's acquaintance realize them without getting tempt by the authorities, and position camaraderie to make all interrupt this happen.”

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All images © Daan Botlek

More info on his new website, on Behance, Facebook, Instagram and Flickr.