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Van Rijn positions his work within, beyond, aside and in front of everyday reality. Its content is fuelled by the ever recurring discussion on the end of art, which is taken as a metaphor for today's cultural and moral state of affairs. Currently his focus is on researching the cultural dimensions of Neo-Paganism, specifically Wicca or Modern Witchcraft. Stemming from the spiritual attitudes within early modernism, Wicca's sampling of existing 'traditions' into a new religious phenomenon has many tangents with today's artist practice. Through an output of text, images and performance, it puts forward challenging approaches to fundamental socio-cultural concepts such as time and history, nature and ecology, gender relations, spirituality and religion. Employing a wide range of media -from drawing to artists' publications and from installation to performance- Van Rijn's research explores Neo-Paganism as an invented revivalist tradition based on rejected knowledge.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Exhibitions/Projects 2011


Zwaan kleef aan (curated by Moritz Ebinger)

Rag X 
Mural - Ink
Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL

 
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Liefde in de Kunst (curated by Bianca Runge)
collaboration with PrintRoom/Karin de Jong
Risograph print (10 x 15 cm.)
P.art of your Life, Zwolle, NL
2011


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Geest van het Huis/The houses' spirit
Group exhibition at Lisa Couwenbergh's studio
2011

 
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Phoebus gallery
Ladenkastproject
2011


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Endism
ALAIN DECLERCQ
JEANNE SUSPLUGAS
EWOUD VAN RIJN
ARTEMIO
TONY GARIFALAKIS
JOAQUIN SEGURA
SCOTT MILES
LANE CORMICK

curated by Tony Garifalakis
6 May to 11 June 2011
Opens 6pm Friday 6th May
24HR ART
Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
Darwin, Australia










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