God is in the details
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
€1,126
Cloud,
2017
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings : lead mine
240 x 490 cm 94.5 x 192.9 inch
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With a career spanning more three decades, Robbie Cornelissen has established himself among the leading contemporary draughtsmen in Europe. His vast and irresolute creative universe demonstrates the complexity of a world dealing with new spatial concepts. Every corner of the planet may have been explored, but digital technologies have opened up an endless universe to discover, a virtual labyrinth without an exit in which one can easily get lost. His drawings often serve vertiginous perspectives out of which emerge distressing voids that refer more to metaphorical states of mind than physical spaces.
Cornelissen’s works is an exploration of these fields and are therefore often viewed as places of anxiety. They could easily be interpreted as portraits of a technophobic mind, alarmed by the speeds and heights of our advanced neoliberal societies. But for some, the volatility of these spaces is also incredibly exciting – liberating even. Cornelissen represents a world in which things are freed from the pragmatism of their usage to exist simply for the interest of their geometry. This is particularly true of architecture, the prime subject of his artistic research.
In many ways, Cornelissen’s method as a draftsman is incredibly traditional. His expertise of linear perspective takes root in the heritage of Quattrocento Masters of the likes of Pietro Perugino, Filippo Brunelleschi or Paolo Uccello. In fact, Uccelo’s Perspective Study of Massocchio is referenced in Cornelissen’s Inner Circle (2016). This affiliation to Italian Renaissance is deliberately present in other pieces as well, in The Miracle (San Zaccaria) for example. What sets Robbie Cornelissen apart from this historical tradition is the possibility to crop and paste objects and references from any geographical or historical context and reconfigure them within a new framework. And with these juxtapositions, the viewer is drawn into new territories where endless meanings emerge.
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Cornelissen’s works is an exploration of these fields and are therefore often viewed as places of anxiety. They could easily be interpreted as portraits of a technophobic mind, alarmed by the speeds and heights of our advanced neoliberal societies. But for some, the volatility of these spaces is also incredibly exciting – liberating even. Cornelissen represents a world in which things are freed from the pragmatism of their usage to exist simply for the interest of their geometry. This is particularly true of architecture, the prime subject of his artistic research.
In many ways, Cornelissen’s method as a draftsman is incredibly traditional. His expertise of linear perspective takes root in the heritage of Quattrocento Masters of the likes of Pietro Perugino, Filippo Brunelleschi or Paolo Uccello. In fact, Uccelo’s Perspective Study of Massocchio is referenced in Cornelissen’s Inner Circle (2016). This affiliation to Italian Renaissance is deliberately present in other pieces as well, in The Miracle (San Zaccaria) for example. What sets Robbie Cornelissen apart from this historical tradition is the possibility to crop and paste objects and references from any geographical or historical context and reconfigure them within a new framework. And with these juxtapositions, the viewer is drawn into new territories where endless meanings emerge.
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Presentation
Robbie Cornelissen is one of the leading contemporary draughtsmen in the Netherlands. Cornelissen has established a reputation for the monumental, architectural drawings that he has been creating since the early 1990s.
In these detailed pencil drawings of libraries, waiting rooms, factory buildings, circus arenas and shopping centres he plays with transitions and connections between indoor and outdoor space. The large format of the drawings, sometimes four metres wide, almost invites the beholder to ‘enter into’ the work.
Cornelissen, who initially trained as a biologist, did not start drawing until later in life, attending the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in the 1980s. He believes his background in biology has benefited his art. His work depicts ‘inner worlds’, taking the viewer on a journey through the artist’s memories and thoughts. Thanks to his knowledge of the human body, Cornelissen knows exactly how the complex cellular system inside us fits together.
Though he uses this knowledge, his drawings do not refer to the human body. The spaces he depicts are mental spaces, metaphors for the human mind. Recent solo exhibitions include God is in the Details at the Stedelijk Museum Kampen (2013), Het grote geheugen X at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (2011) and Studio Vertigo at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2011).
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In these detailed pencil drawings of libraries, waiting rooms, factory buildings, circus arenas and shopping centres he plays with transitions and connections between indoor and outdoor space. The large format of the drawings, sometimes four metres wide, almost invites the beholder to ‘enter into’ the work.
Cornelissen, who initially trained as a biologist, did not start drawing until later in life, attending the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in the 1980s. He believes his background in biology has benefited his art. His work depicts ‘inner worlds’, taking the viewer on a journey through the artist’s memories and thoughts. Thanks to his knowledge of the human body, Cornelissen knows exactly how the complex cellular system inside us fits together.
Though he uses this knowledge, his drawings do not refer to the human body. The spaces he depicts are mental spaces, metaphors for the human mind. Recent solo exhibitions include God is in the Details at the Stedelijk Museum Kampen (2013), Het grote geheugen X at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (2011) and Studio Vertigo at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2011).
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