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Discovery of the Well-Known
  • Isolde Venrooy (NL)

Regular
 20
Edition with print A (Beyond the fence begins the sky)
 75
Edition with print B (Where do I pick up my last minute)
 75
230 × 300 mm
48 pages
English + Dutch
Cahier with dust cover
TEC016
First edition: 500
9789081838474
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection
  • Discovery of the Well-Known - The Eriskay Connection

Artworks:
Isolde Venrooy

Text:
Margriet Kemper

Translation:
Jonathan William Beaton

Photography:
Antje Peters
Jan Adriaans

Design:
Rob van Hoesel

Reproductions:
Fotolab

Production:
NPN Printers (NL)

Supported by:
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam

The publication Discovery of the Well-Known includes paintings by Isolde Venrooy from the period 2011–2013. The paintings were created by collecting, cutting, painting and placing paper on canvas. Venrooy uses paper with specific origin in her work, such as travel brochures.

In the work of Venrooy humans share the pure element of time with others. Bathers who share the seawater, or skiers in the shining white of snow, are connected by a common current time. Venrooy establishes this connection in a very concrete, traditional way. By recoating paper cuttings with monochromatic color figures are isolated and merged into a new moment of time.

The book Discovery of the Well-Known guides the reader through several enlargements of the works. From a detail to the whole and back. Just as it is required to observe the paintings closer and step away from them in order to experience the full richness of the extraordinary work.

In some later works Venrooy takes a new step, that of abstraction. Which, without the materiality of the earlier works, had probably never been taken. The images disappear and what remains is the pure act of collage and the abstract landscape.

The title Discovery of the Well-Known gives the viewer an assignment: try to discover the already known.

Isolde Venrooy is an independent artist and designer. She also works as a lecturer at ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in the Netherlands. In 1998, she graduated cum laude from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tilburg, having studied Drawing and Painting. She subsequently attained a Master’s degree in European Arts and Cultures in 2000. In 2003, she graduated cum laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven, where she studied Man and Communication.

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