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Sculpture, Found Objects on Paper
Size: 27.6 W x 27.6 H x 3.5 D in
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Readymade; 6 books (all books are signed by the artist with title, year, place created, signature and artist name-stamp), 2 painting shelves.
Six books have been assembled in the readymade 'Untitled (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog)', all with the same painting as cover illustration. Independent of each other, the publisher has chosen to use this classic by Caspar David Friedrich from 1817 as a front. This icon of the Romantic movement is combined with various titles; from 'Frankenstein' to 'Thus spoke Zarathustra', from 'Looking at Mindfullness' to 'A companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain', from story bundle to biography. To what extent these books fit in with 'the spirit of Romanticism’ let alone Caspar David Friedrich's amazement about the manifestation of nature, specifically his individual experience of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, is the question. Although the power of this masterpiece seems ultimately proven by the ease with which every appropriation of the image is averted. Despite the unique depiction being presented in a Warholesque manner as a repetitive series.
‘Untitled (Wanderer above the sea of fog)’ has been exhibited at Popinnart, Amsterdam, 2018.
Original Created:2018
Subjects:Popular culture
Styles:Pop ArtConceptual
Mediums:Found ObjectsPaperWoodPlastic
Sculpture:Found Objects on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:27.6 W x 27.6 H x 3.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Ships From:Netherlands.
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Roberto Voorbij (1974) lives and works in Amsterdam, holds a bachelor degree in Visual Arts and Art History from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he took classes from a.o. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle during the late 1990s. Voorbij is a multidisciplinary artist, apart from working with ‘ready made’ materials, he works with 3D Software, (digital) collage and video. Besides (national) identity are public space and religion recurring themes in Voorbij's work. The latter interest is motivated by a Catholic upbringing, which contrasts with an ever-increasing secularization in the Netherlands. From this perspective also his 'Artist Portraits' can be interpreted - besides the clear reference to the art world - more spiritually. As a form of animism the question arises whether a work of art itself can become inspired, how the maker resonates and transforms into the creation he or she leaves behind. In addition to a representation by online gallery Saatchi Art, Voorbij is represented by Leontia Gallery in London. In 2020 his work was part of the International Biennial of Asunción, Paraguay. As part of a group show his short ‘Without clear purpose’ screened at Museum of the Moving Image, New York. The next year his short ‘Carte Blanche’ screened at BOMBA Gallery, Moscow. One of his Artist Portraits was part of the traveling group exhibition 'The World of Frida' in the United States until 2022. Further, from 2024-2027 his short ‘Carte Blanche’ will be screened in the elevators of citizenM, Austin, US.
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