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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Painting this work, I was inspired by the sea. I love witnessing the sea's power and strength when splashing onto the shores of whatever country. Especially in Greece, there is a strong tradition of working with blue and white tones in art. I chose this colour pattern, adding to it a strong orange, representing the vibrant character of people. For me, this image represents a lot: the protection of a mother to her child, the encounter between lovers, the freedom of nature and the mixture of human architecture and natural environment. The painting is built up from my personal memories of Greece, a country that I have discovered to love for its genuine strength. It contains my childish fantasies of lonesome birds in big skies, jolly foam patterns at the edges of the sea waves, funny stairs in all white buildings and people drawn with orange, as I used to do as a child. I also tried to capture something universal in here, the concept of 'encountering', as this happens around us and in ourselves all the time - just like the sea sometimes encounters the land softly and quietly and sometimes with incredible powers and fortitude. The edge between sea and skies, the horizon, is painted with a funny and fat line of white paint, because this border only exists in our minds and yet is real. The painting is made of acrylic paint on stretched canvas
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2019
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Giclee on Canvas
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14 W x 21 H x 1.25 D in
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15.75 W x 22.75 H x 1.25 D in
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Chris van den Berg
Netherlands
Chris was born and raised in the Dutch harbor city of Rotterdam. Inspired by the growing city, Chris developed a vision on what he recognizes walking his hometown. The always floating river Maas, the changing skies behind the Rotterdam sky scrapers and the laughter and tears on people's faces if life meets them. Everything there is can always be seen differently, depending on where you stand and what you want to see. This vision didn't come from nowhere: after finishing high school, Chris studied German literature and history at the universities of Leiden and Berlin. In researching the traumatic German history, Chris was attracted to societal borders in a traumatized society. How was it possible for people in the worst possible circumstances to find freedom? And even more interesting: How did those people manage to express themselves? After completing his studies, Chris became a secondary school teacher in his hometown, in what still is an underdeveloped neighborhoud and one of the poorest areas of the Netherlands. Nowadays, as one of the directors of a secondary school, Chris tries to help providing equal chances in education. It is for this reason that Chris also became a member of the City Jury of Rotterdam (CityLab 010). Combining all of these perspectives on modern society leads to the same urge he feels when looking at the always flowing river Maas: to express himself on the 'changeable society', while seeing it from all the different kind of views - academic, social, educational, geographical, governmental and all the other perspectives one can think of. With so many cultures, connections and perspectives, there is always something to be seen differently. The world appears to us criss cross, or in Dutch, kriskras. In his work, chriskrasart, Chris therefore tries to represent the power of differences and of perspective. The world the artist sees, is ever-changing. At the same time, by looking at the world and representing it in art, the artist also changes the world. As in change, reality can be found, so to say.
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