Thea Jentjens



THEA JENTJENS

Visual artist


在 Thea Jentjens 專注其專業為藝術家前,她阿姆斯特丹的 Gerrit Rietveld Academie 畢業,專業為生物學家。此等背景令她從顯微鏡中得到啟示,發現我們的世界不是我們能看見什麼,而是怎樣從不同深度和無限層面來觀看世界。從她的畫作中,我們可發現她巧妙地運用顏色、形狀和結構,以影像來揭示已被深藏的種種回憶。





ARTIST STATMENT

Before Thea Jentjens graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and started working as a professional artist, she was trained as a biologist and worked as a scientist. This background expressed itself in paintings where she uses the world as it appears under the microscope as a guide. Not what can be seen, but how it can be seen in terms of depth and the suggestion of an infinite number of layers.

For her the canvas is a test site for experiments with colour, form and structure. This playing with the materials allows her to create images that have been unearthed from memory. Over the years a switchin attention from the microscopical world to architectual spaces can be seen in her paintings.

    In 2009 she was invited to stay in an Art Residency in Berlin, where she became interested in the attemps to make the former divided city, one city again. Her long walking tours of Berlin have led to a series of drawings, mostly with architectual elements. In the series of paintings that followed, she brought architecture into her microscopical world. She paints buildings or parts of buildings as if they are seen through a microscope.

  


12/T1. 2012. Acrylic and pencil on paper.

ARTIST´S RESUME



12/T02. 2012. Gouache and pencil on paper.

 10/T02. 2010. Acrylic on paper.







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