Nel Aerts
The Wanderer Paintings
2019
€360,00
Hardcover book in unique slipcase – Wood, acrylic, spray paint, pyrography
23,5 × 28,5 × 3,3 cm
Unique work in a series 25 variations, signed and numbered by the artist
In stock
about this work
As a limited edition of her book The Wanderer Paintings , Nel Aerts made a special wooden slipcase for the sold out monograph. With acrylic, spray paint and pyrography she created a self portrait in her studio. While all slipcases have the same motive, due to the technique through which they were made, all of them are unqiue.
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.
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