turning pages
With the presentation of three new installations, Bart Drost puts the crown on his 40th anniversary as an artist.
The basement of NEUS - a dilapidated bar that has been converted into a space where you can also discover art, fashion, design and music - appears to be a suitable place to install the more than 850 drawings.
Since his studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the photo book 'boys are boys' has been a source of inspiration for Bart Drost's work. The installation 'bladgoudjongens deel 3' from 2022 also bears witness to this. He now serially draws details of the boys depicted in the book - naked and in graceful poses: noses, hands, feet, nipples and so on. With black pencil. He adds a suitable object to each body part. With colored pencil.
The first version of 'nicht weinen' was performed by Bart in the protected environment of his own studio. The installation consists of 153 prints on canvas, 20x20 cm. (The printed photos come from previous projects: 'what about the boy' (1979-2015), 'leaves' (2017-2022) and 'en garde' (2018). A German schlager from 1967 sounded from a megaphone. installation in NEUS, the megaphone has been replaced by a record player.
The presentation '40 years later...' falls during the Easter period. Bart Drost and Easter, the two have something in common, as previous presentations in 2012 and 2017 have shown.
At NEUS he presents the series 'the beautiful suffering (2)': 91 drawn portraits of Christ with a crown of thorns and 30 loincloths, based on a batch of discarded crucifixes.
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