CONCEPTUAL CONTINUITY PART TWO
A select group of collectors buy his work. No exhibitions. From 1957 till today: Conceptual Continuity.
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Conceptual Continuity, The Story: -
1936
His childhood was turbulent while his family was poor and they lived in a prostitute area. He was often left to the streets and developed a second nature for survival. The hookers behind the windows used him as shopping deliverer. Barefooted he survived the elements and the scarcity caused by the war. His father owned a Studebaker Garage and slaughtered rabbits for dish because his money went to his hobby: alcohol.
Totally unexpected one day during war the young boy was picked up by a truck from child protection and deported to a notorious catholic youth boarding. His individuality and verbal talent made him victim of many punishments by the fathers. Never the less he developed his talent for drawing and sculpting. At the age of eighteen the fathers had to let him go. His father by then was passed away. He did jobs like cleaning buildings and helping market merchants but never stopped making drawings and when he could he did sculpting. While everybody was having a good time drinking and making fun the young guy was always sitting over there with his sketchbook.
1957
At the age of twenty one he was, based on his artworks, allowed at the Art Academy. Soon after attending he became sculpting assistant at this Academy. His work was bought by companies and exposed at art manifestations.
Although he became successful he also became unhappy with the ways of the art world. While colleagues enjoyed live, he often stayed behind in the studio to work. Nobody understood why, when he suddenly attended all his energy on painting one day while successful as a sculptor.
1963
In his paintings (hard edge) he could more clearly show his criticism at politics and people. It gave him tools to show his opinion about the world. By then a small group of collectors bought his paintings and sometimes he had to sell work to the government. (Artist Grant) He married and had a son. The boarding school discipline makes him day in and day out in his studio leaving his wife taking care of his sons education. Still unaware of the arts or art history he was building his oeuvre delivering lots of paintings to sell and sometimes buying them back to be able to destroy them. Until today he keeps track of all his work.
1970 - 1985
Almost forgotten by the artistic in crowed he moved to his recent atelier at the top floor of an office villa. After a few years the company directors underneath his atelier became curious. Who is that man arriving early in the morning and leaving late at night or not at all? They finally succeeded to lay contact and after a few years theyve won his trust. They bought a few paintings but wanted to do more. A trust was founded: The Eighties and they agreed to buy four paintings each year. In the second half of the seventies he began to visit art manifestations and museums. The Young Germans and Young Italians became an eye-opener to him. Also the old masters and modern art of the last century was revealed to him. Until then he had not a clue what so ever of what was going on in art.
1990
As a result he isolated himself again to study the new discovered world of arts and also ended the contract with The Eighties. The trust wanted him to eventually expose his work but he refused. After hard labour during a couple of years a series of expressionist paintings arose. These monumental paintings could never be sold at the same rates as before. Also a few collectors stopped buying and others entered his world. The cartoonish hard edge period had ended and an emotional and dark sarcastic world in black and grey was born out of it. No more voluptuous figures in absurdist situations of marriage, infidelity, Vietnam War or hookers to lure the spectator. This was the real world with serious dead, destruction, poverty and war. The mangled individual became visible.
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