Ger van Elk

Elk, Ger van





Ger van Elk was born 1941 BirthNetherlands.

-Ger van Elk-

Categories: Painting Sculpture Objects Photography

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His art combines painting, objects, photography and sculpture…
The slide and film works have a special position in Van Elk’s oeuvre. In his essay in the accompanying catalogue Ron Kaal puts it as follows: ‘He stopped making them as abruptly as he started them. At first sight there is no connection to the later work that made Van Elk famous. They are minor actions, of ten filmed a little clumsily, sometimes fixed on a tripod, sometimes with a slight movement. The medium is less important that the event; the camera is merely the witness. On reflection, the recurrent theme linking this work with the rest of his oeuvre is the artist’s attitude. For him nothing is obvious and he pauses to wonder at phenomena which others continually pass by.’..
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The symmetry of diplomacy II – Peking uit 1972 is een satire op een officiële foto van een diplomatieke ontmoeting. Van Elk poseert zelf tweemaal, niet als individu maar als diplomaat, als acteur. Via het gebruik van stereotiepe beeldcodes, die hij zowel ontleent aan persfoto’s als aan het traditionele schildergenre van het stilleven of ‘nature morte’, benadrukt hij het onpersoonlijke en geposeerde van dergelijke ogenblikken. “Hetgeen ik wil,” zegt Van Elk, “is een realistische voorstelling van niet-realistische situaties.”..

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