Ger van Elk –, Amsterdam (NL)
Ger van Elk
Apparatus scalas dividens,
Sailcloth, bamboo, guy ropes, safety pins, flowerboxes, earth, metal, tent pegs
Dimensions variable
SoldGer van Elk
Famous Hollywood Kissing,
LCD-screen & harddisc (duration: 5 min. 28 sec.)
56 x 62 x cm | 22 1/8 x 24 3/8 x 1 3/4 in (incl. frame)
Edition of 7
Ger van Elk
Conclusions II - Vejer de la Frontera "Yellow",
Acrylic paint on photograph on canvas
x x 5 cm | 48 3/8 x 49 5/8 x 2 in
Ger van Elk
Adieu à K,
Harddisc, LCD screen, in surround in oak frame
56 x 62 x 4 cm | 22 x x in
Edition of 5
Ger van Elk
The Co-Founder of the Word O.K. - Hollywood,
Color photograph, framed
84 x 82 cm | 33 1/8 x 32 1/4 in
Ger van Elk
Het netje / The Net,
Metal, wood, paint, fabric, rope
x x 80 cm | 48 1/8 x 70 7/8 x 31 1/2 in
Version 2
Ger van Elk
Camping Art 1,
Canvas, gauze with lace, metal tent poles, guy ropes
x x cm | 34 1/2 x x in
Ger van Elk
Los Angeles Freeway Flyer,
Contact prints (color) wrapped around six walking sticks
x x cm | 53 x x 1 1/4 in
Ger van Elk
Portrait - As is, as was,
C-print ra 4 on Duraclear fil
Ger van Elk
Born in Amsterdam
Lives and works in Amsterdam
Studies
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Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, Amsterdam
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Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles (Kunstgeschichte)
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen (Kunstgeschichte)
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Co-Founder of the Adynamische Groep mit Wim T. Schippers und Bob Wesdorp
Co-Founder ofInternationaal Instituut voor de Herscholing van Kunstenaars mit Jan Dibbets und Reinier
Lucassen
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Ateliers ’63, Haarlem
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École des Beaux-Arts, ParisAwards
David Roëll Award
J.C. van Lanschotprice for sculpture
Oevre-Price for creative Art
Further information:
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The Last Picture Show. Künstler verwenden Fotografie,
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Der Abschied, ein bewegter Punkt am Horizont
A farewell, a moving point on the horizon
Galerie m Bochum
The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography,UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
Tate Collection, London
Le Néo-Impressionnisme, From Seurat to Paul Klee
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Katalog
Selected solo exhibitiions
Adynamische werken, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (mit Wim T. Schippers) (Brosc'A work of art exists of the components idea and material. One does not stand apart from the other. I chose for a good concept and the best way to give form to that concept'. (Exhibition catalogue, 'Op het tweede gezicht: Ger van Elk', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, )
Ger van Elk () worked with various media. Photography, film, assemblage, canvas, rope, wood; the media he used depended on the idea he had in mind. His subject matter often came from art itself. What is the position of the artist? How do we look at the reality surrounding us? What determines our vision? Questions Van Elk often asked himself. His approach was serious and humoristic at the same time.
Together with Jan Dibbets and Marinus Boezem, Ger van Elk formed the core group of Conceptual art in The Netherlands. Most significant for Van Elks association with conceptual art was his participation in the exhibition 'Rassegna d' Arti Figurative 3: Arte Povera + Azioni Povere' in Amalfi and in in the concurrent avant-garde surveys 'Op Losse Schroeven/situaties en cryptostructuren' at the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum and 'When Attitudes Become Form: Works-Concep
Ger van Elk constantly questions the perception of reality through his work by contrasting image, imagination and reality. Immersing ordinary scenes in an absurd dimension, he aspires to create a “realistic depiction of unrealistic situations.”
Considered one of the founders of conceptual art and close to Arte Povera (the name given by art critic Germano Celant in to the movement challenging the formalist offerings of the dominant American groups of the time), he trained at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and the Rijksuniversiteit in Groningen, Netherlands. He developed his work as a reflection on painting, beginning with painting in the Dutch style. Van Elk uses a number of different media (image, painting, sculpture, film) and takes inspiration from the Dada movement, and particularly from Duchamp’s readymades.
His work was first shown by the Pinault Collection at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition () at the Palazzo Grassi.
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