After a career of more than 30 years in the research of textures (25 years as textile stylist and 5 years as interior design architect), Didier Engels has shifted towards photography.
As self-taught Belgian photographer, he started his photographic work DRY DOCK and KAAIEN in January 2015
Friso Boven (1986) is a pure visual thinker. Thoughts, concepts and stories arise entirely in forms and images, which he captures and expresses in various widely diverse photographic styles.
Although born in Groningen, Friso was raised in Kano, Manchester, Seoul and New Delhi, driving him to further develop his skills rapidly. Consequently, he learned to express himself by drawing and later through photography. Friso is one of the rare self-taught photographers whose work has been acquired by both the Caldic Collection as the AkzoNobel Art Foundation.
Boven’s work covers a wide variety of genres, themes and styles. From fashion photography to autonomous art, from improvised street photography to staged studio sessions. His work is known for his highly original use of perspective, emotional engagement and an inexhaustible interest in people. Each of his images serve as an invitation to look at the world from another angle and always allow the possibility to shed a different light on the subject.
This outsider not only brings up strong emotions with himself, but also with others: Paul Blanca. The self-taught photographer, born as Paul Vlaswinkel in 1958 in Amsterdam, makes his way through current commerce with his black and white and sometimes color photography. The ‘’tragic’’ is the guiding principle in his large format negatives: he believes in that one expression in that particular moment.
Tom Wesselmann is considered one of the major artists of New York Pop art, along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. Best known for his 1960s series “Great American nude,” which featured flat figures in an intense palette of red, white, blue, and other patriotic colors, Wesselmann, in an effort to reject Abstract Expressionism, made collages and assemblages that incorporated everyday objects and advertising ephemera.
Artist Walasse Ting, through various wanderings, ended up in Paris in 1952, where he encountered Cobra painters such as Karel Appel and Asger Jorn.
Isabelle Scheltjens has been interested in art since she was young. She studied at SISA, the Antwerp City Institute for Decorative Arts and Crafts.
Kees Salentijn’s work is characterized by diversity. According to himself, one means is not necessarily better than the other in art, as long as it is used correctly. One day Salentijn works figuratively classical or expressively abstract. The other day again childishly naive.
The Spanish Juan Ripollés (1932) followed an evening drawing course at the Fransisco Ribalta School in Castellón, the town he grew up in.
De gelaagde werken van kunstenaar Bram Reijnders (1974) zijn het antwoord op de vraag ‘wat is realiteit?’, die hij zichzelf stelde als reactie op de wereld om hem heen waarin reclame, politiek spel, media hypes en zelfverheerlijking via social media een vertekenend beeld geven.
Morgan describes his approach to art as follows: “To explore my work is to engage in a journey of discovery, peeling back layers of composition, color, text, scratches, and lines, both deliberate and accidental—much like peeling an onion.”
