The book of sand II, 2019
Painting : oil · 61 x 44 x 3 cm 24 x 17.3 x 1.2 inch
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61 x 44 x 3 cm 24 x 17.3 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
This series, named after a short story of Jorge Luis Borges, deals with the idea of the disappearance of works of art and, above all, the loss of people. Started the day after the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris in 2019, these paintings are different from the artist's recent production by the use of human forms. They offer a reflection on the ephemeral and the perpetual, and how people who have gone can be a presence in one’s life. This work refers to the destruction of the Buddhas of the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan by the Taliban in 2001.
Bibliography:
Maarten Demmink. Galerie Jean-Marie Oger, Paris. 2022.
Bibliography:
Maarten Demmink. Galerie Jean-Marie Oger, Paris. 2022.
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Graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Maarten Demmink (also known as Demiak) revisits the genre of landscape in the light of his contemporary concerns about environmentalism by the use of different mediums: paintings, mural wood sculptures, mixed media and staged photographs.
Through the motif of landscape shaped by human activity, he seeks to record the instability and the invisible, the time and the history, the traces left by nature and the cataclysms. His paintings looking like damaged vintage photographs of the series "The Big Blow" list some major natural disasters through the ages. Inspired by the Deep South, "Memoirs of Loss" is focused on ravaged houses, like an echo to a series of small sculptures of houses made in modest materials. Since the mid-2010s, he develops other themes into his series of landscapes, such as geopolitical considerations ("Escapism") or the memory of places ("The Book of Sand", "Ask the Dust") while pursuing his pictorial research by combining almost abstract or matierist elements ("Earth", "Labyrinths of Clay", "Urban Tissue").
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