MICHIEL KEUPER/: ***ad hoc***

Monday, December 20, 2010

'Past Present (Past Presence)' / close up

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, 2010

Some more pictures of my wall installation at the ***AD HOC*** exhibition i did together with Dania Burger and Peder K. Bugge, last week at Uferstudios (see post below). The installation consisted of 62 works on paper and 3 oil paintings.

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, close up, 2010

The works on paper started as sketches or figure studies for new paintings. Using old fashion magazines, and selecting most neutral pictures of male models, I began erasing all fashion references with acrylic paint and ink. Does that sound Freudian...? It does, I'm afraid. Soon they became works in their own right, and I decided to put them up together with a selection of the oil paintings I did so far.

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, detail, 2010

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, close up,2010

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, close up, 2010

On the right; 'Jack Smith', 2010, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm. See close ups here (click for enlargement).

'Jack Smith', 2010, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm, detail

'Jack Smith', 2010, oil on canvas, 40x50 cm

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, detail, 2010

Center bottom on the left; 'Boy looking up (Jan Rot)', 2010, oil on canvas 30x40 cm. See close ups here (click for enlargement).

'Boy looking up (Jan Rot)', 2010, oil on canvas, 30x40 cm

'Boy looking up (Jan Rot)', 2010, oil on canvas, 30x40 cm, detail

'Past Present (Past Presence)', wall installation, 2010

***AD HOC***, overview, left: Dania Burger, right: Michiel Keuper

***AD HOC*** at Uferstudios Berlin, opening night

All photo's © Michiel Keuper, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

AD HOC / BURGER BUGGE KEUPER / First impressions

Last friday ***AD HOC*** an exhibition with works of me, Peder K. Bugge and Dania Burger opened at the Uferstudios in Berlin Wedding. Happy that a lot of people came, despite the snow. Thanks!

Here some impressions...

***AD HOC***, Uferstudios, Berlin, outside view.

***AD HOC***, Uferstudios, Berlin. Left: Peder K. Bugge / center: Dania Burger / right: Michiel Keuper.

Peder K. Bugge, Dania Burger, Michiel Keuper (photo: Peter Pleyer)

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation. 62 works on paper, 3 oil paintings on canvas

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation, detail. Acrylic, ink on magazine. Oil on canvas.

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation, close up. Acrylic, ink on magazine. Oil on canvas.

PEDER K. BUGGE

The oil paintings of Peder K. Bugge are of abstract spaces, in which colour and light play a crucial role. They exist in big format on canvas and, as he will show on this occasion, on small wooden panels.

Peder K. Bugge (*1971, N) studied at the Academy of Arts in Bergen, Norway, and in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His work is represented in private as well as in public collections. He mainly lives in Norway and occasionally works in Berlin for longer periods of time. www.pederkbugge.com

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm.
Bottom right: 'Berliner Farben', 2010, oil on canvas, 8 pieces.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, oil on wood, 25x20 cm / Nr. 27, Nr. 22.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, oil on wood, 25x20 cm / Nr. 17, Nr. 14.

DANIA BURGER

Crochet Paintings calls Dania Burger the big scale collages on canvas, made out of different materials such as fabric, sequins, tape and yarns.

Dania Burger (*1967, D) studied at the Academie of Arts in Hamburg as well as in Bergen, Norway. Her work is represented in several public museum collections. Since 1998 she mainly lives in Norway. www.daniaburger.com