Here Be Dragons Expo 10 & 11 june!
Iris Frerichs, Maja Badnjevic and myself are thrilled to announce our upcoming exhibit in the heart of Amsterdam! Here be Dragons promises to be an exciting exhibit with drawings and mixed media work in the raw and spacious exhibition space Werkpaard. We warmly invite you to come and explore our work on Saturday 10th and Sunday the 11th of June!
About the exhibit
Legend has it that Here be Dragons would appear on maps just like mapmakers would place monsters and other imagined creatures to mark unexplored areas. There is appeal in the unknown as much as it unsettles. We search for tension and juxtapose opposites. What might we find? We scatter! We become what is other while structures and landscape become creature.
Expect to see a wide range of works from all three artists. Some new, some old or previously unseen pieces. We look forward to welcoming you there!
Dates
Join us in Werkpaard on Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th of June ‘23, 11am-6pm
Address
Werkpaard
Mauritskade 55C
Amsterdam
Iris Frerichs
I am fascinated by the continuous transformation of the big and small stories that surround us. This fascination gives rise to my work. My mixed media drawings reflect ambivalent characteristics associated with change - hope, fear, dominance, freedom, doubt, decisiveness, growth, resistance, and destruction. The structures and shapes that populate my drawings, stack, slide and lump together. They scatter and become part of their environment or, conversely, separate away from it.
In my more recent works, the themes of defense, hiding and territory play a bigger role. Within the structures and shapes that emerge while I work I find enchantment; I consider them to be creatures.
I make drawings in small formats and assembly works in small and large formats. The works are created with different media (pencil, pastel, charcoal, ink, marker, pen, glue, paint, paper types) and especially in the larger works I use different parts of paper to form the final image.
I was searching, stumbling on my way.
So many rocks on this road!
Where do they come from?
Why is it so dark, and yet not dark enough?
I have an impression that I can see something.
What do I see here?
I might have got lost on my way.
I drew now this map. Do you see it?
It looks like a drawing, but really, it is a map.
It can take you places.
Marijke de Pous
I dance with landscape and material to explore our emotional relationship to the earth and to each other. On the one hand, there is nature as a source of inner strength, connection and freedom. On the other, there is heaviness and sadness fueled by the knowledge of our destructive exploitation of the earth and each other. I feel and think through these conflicts that are also present in me.
Through playful exploration I let the body enter into a dialogue with my physical environment and the materials I use. Amidst mountains, fields and forests, and in my studio, I search for interaction. On the spot, but also between one moment captured on film and later moments, in which I work on the images by shifting layers and drawing on top of them.
Make it an art weekend!
The Rijksakademie residents have their Open Studios during the same weekend at only a 5 min walk away!
