Photographer Frédérique van Rijn (born 1982) has a penchant for places where you can almost feel the history. In 2016, she spent several months in the studios of poet-artist Lucebert in Bergen and Jávea, Spain. This formed the starting point for a series of new photographs.
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Frédérique van Rijn
In the Bergen studio of painter-poet Lucebert, everything remains exactly as it was when he worked there. The shelves overflowing with books and yellowed magazines, the record player loaded with jazz records, the worktable, the painted walls covered in beasts and monsters: it seems as if he could walk in at any moment. This tangible history formed the starting point for a series of new photographs by Frédérique van Rijn.
Remco Campert
Van Rijn photographed landscapes around Bergen and Jávea and combined them with details from the studios: paint splatters, paintings, details from Lucebert’s paintings, and the artist’s personal belongings. In this way, her photographic collages engage in a surreal dialogue with Lucebert’s life and work. For each photo collage, writer and poet Remco Campert selected a fitting line of poetry from Lucebert’s rich oeuvre. Lucebert’s own painting, Madame (1986), is also on display.
Publication
The publication “The Light Eye Crying Colors” (99 Publishers) will be released during the exhibition, including a text and poem by Remco Campert.
