Dames van Plezier: Donna, 2015

Nel Aerts

Print, Mixed Media
42 x 59 cm / 16.54 x 23.23 inch
Edition of 9 copies, signed and numbered by the artist

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Medium: silkscreen print on hand-painted paper
This work is unframed
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about this work

Over the past few years, Nel Aerts has fully developed her own visual language, and created a rich universe of grotesque and cartoonist figures that represent all kinds of human emotions and situations.

Dames van Plezier (Ladies of Pleasure) (2015) was created as a portfolio of six silkscreens on hand-painted paper, each depicting another female character. The folder was produced on an edition of nine copies, but is sold out. However, of these nine folders, two were taken apart so that the silkscreen prints could be sold individually.

about Nel Aerts

Nel Aerts moves in a freely, intuitive way between different media as painting, drawing, collage, performance and sculpture. Since a few years she focuses more often on the portrait-genre, which she visualises on paper or on wooden panels, with careful attention to the different qualities of each material. As such, she is creating a large collection (family almost) of posing subjects caught between abstract patterns and hard-edged figuration. The figures she portraits refer to both popular culture and her direct, everyday surroundings.

The self-portraits are tragicomic in the sense of the contrasts they evoke. Alternately they are desperate or funny, extra- or introverted, thought- or playful carved from wood or originated as a collage, but they are always introspective and self-relativistic.

Nel Aerts has had solo and duo exhibitions in Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Carl Freedman Gallery, London; Galleri SPECTA, Copenhagen; Horizont Gallery, Budapest; and KIOSK, Ghent.

Her work was also shown in group exhibitions such as Europe, Europe (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thomas Boutoux and Gunnar B. Kvaran) at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Season of the Which (curated by Marie de Gaulejac) at Castillo/Corrales, Paris; Salon der Angst (curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen & Cathérine Hug) at Kunsthalle, Vienna; Un-Scene II (curated by Elena Filipovic & Anne-Claire Schmitz) at WIELS, Brussels; De Vierkantigste Rechthoek (curated by Tom Barman) at Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; MOTinternational, Brussels; Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; and Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.

Nel Aerts is represented by the following gallery;
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Carl Freedman Gallery, London

You can view more work on Nel Aerts’ own website.

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