Station to station to station

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Spring 2017 Station to station to station will be published. My photo book with more than 700 photographs in 328 pages. You can order it at Lecturis.nl

From 2012 Lenny Waasdorp, visual artist and railway guard at the Dutch Railway, photographed the Netherlands from the train with a cell phone. Unusual in this is the position from which she photographed – from the very rear end of the train, giving the viewer a breathtaking view of the Dutch Railway and infrastructure. This method yielded thousands of pictures, of which a large selection finds its way to “Station to station to station,” in which the rhythm of rail travel is captured in the many photographs, sometimes dozens per page, sometimes a single picture. Like a train that speeds, stops and continues traveling.
The pictures testify the endless, loneliness and rawness of (working on) the railway. A book for anyone with an affinity for the railway, photography, the Dutch landscape, travel, trains and the romance around it. A book as a railroad movie.

Painted self portrait selected for Weekend van het Portret

 

Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm
Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm

My first painting in years, using the technique of the old Flemish masters. After the drawing, the imprimatura and layer with burnt umber, I stopped at the layer known as Grisaille: in Dutch called ‘doodverven’.  Oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm. This self portrait got selected for Weekend van het Portret 2016, on show on October 28, 29, & 30 in Loods 6, Amsterdam.

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Exit GEMAK: All Art is Political

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GEMAK has to close and therefore organizes its final event on Friday 4 December 2015, a farewell in the spirit and ambition of GEMAK (and the Vrije Academie Foundation) focusing on artistic practice, experiment, diversity in art disciplines and the connection between art, society and politics.

EXHIBITION (open from 2 pm till midnight), participating artists:

Philip Akkerman, Siamak Anvari, Ehsan Behmanesh, Justin Bennett, Harold de Bree, Paul Bruininckx, Claudie de Cleen, Nicole Donkers, Laura van Eeden, B.C. Epker, Melissa Cruz Garcia, Amme Geenem Hannah Dawn Henderson. Jonquil, André Kruysen, Dana LaMonda, ligteringen/derooij, Euf Lindeboom, LUSTlab, Sylvain Mazas, Marjolijn van der Meij, Andries Micke, Ingrid Mol, Pendar Nabipour, Nishiko, POTL- Hans Demoed & Geert de Rooij, Rjan de Nooy, Zeger Reyers, Pascal Schilp, Petra van der Schoot, Philip Schuette, Willem Spekenbrink, Yvo van der Vat, Pim Voorneman, Teun Voeten, René Vullings, Lenny Waasdorp, Mark de Weijer, Wouter Willebrands, Jean van Wijk, Gerjanne & Marijke van Zuilen.

 

On show:
Train underpass near Weesp
45 seconds in 24 images
10.01.2015 | 10:21:27 h – 10:22:12 h

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The paradox of Theseus’s ship

The paradox of Theseus’s ship is a philosophical issue. Imagine that your ship has left the port. At sea, all hundred wooden parts of your ship will be replaced by metal ones. When your ship sails into the next port, is it still the same ship?

This paradox is a metaphor for the person’s identity, a recurring theme in my work. In the photo’s below you can see how I compose a picture. The ship, the Hollandia, I photographed on Terschelling last year when it was lying on dry land.