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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.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Work 2012

Shredded Halo
Markers on Paper, 120 x 170 cm., 2012


















Sorry!
Silkscreen print, 29,7 x 21 cm., ed.10, 2012



















Rag Rings
Edding markers-paper, 120 x 170, 2012
























Rag A
Ink-paper, 110 x 110, 2012
























Rag Euro
Ink-paper, 110 x 110, 2012
























Rag alphabet lithographs
For future  textpieces i am  developing a whole alphabet in lithographs at the grafische werkplaats in The Hague, NL
Lithograph printed on 250 gms. BFK Rives Arches, 2012




































































PrintRoom@Liste Basel 2012
 













Rag Euro and Fungod@studiopresentation 2012
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