Marcel Wesdorp
Possible Environments (478.000 438.418 -181.842), 2020
Artist
Marcel Wesdorp
nl 1965
Graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Marcel Wesdorp (1965, NL) studied photography at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. He makes animations of landscapes in the media: film, print, book and installation. While a draughtsman draws lines with a pencil, Wesdorp uses a series of pixels. Purely software-based techniques are his tools. He also creates his images by modelling and making collages of satellite data. They are usually in many shades of grey and without any presence of people, flora or fauna. Prints of these digitally developed areas appear to be real photographs.
This also applies to his recent series ‘Possible Environments’, where a warm turquoise with subtle nuances prevails, for the first time in his career. There seems to be life in this apparently tropical archipelago. Ancient meteorite impacts on Earth left their mark below the surface. In many such places there is exploitation of minerals; that appropriation makes us think about the value of our coexistence on earth. The ‘mining’ must therefore be taken literally.
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Artworks
Exhibition impression
x7457.29 y9325.47 z226.42, mat plexiglas, dibond, 125x222cm
