Piece description from the artist
This evocative artwork immediately captures the viewer's attention through its compelling composition and thought-provoking subject matter. A striking collage of newspapers, meticulously arranged in a seemingly haphazard manner, dominates the central portion of the canvas. The artist has masterfully utilized a blend of cool and warm tones, creating an intriguing contrast that adds depth and dynamism to the piece. The assortment of newspaper clippings, rendered in various shades of yellow, pink, and gray, invites the audience to explore their fragmented messages and images. Each piece, though torn and incomplete, hints at stories and information once deemed significant, yet now relegated to the background of collective memory. The artist's choice of layering these fragments creates a textured surface, providing a tactile quality that further enhances the sensory experience of the artwork. Surrounding this central collage is a gradient of blues and greens, which seems to envelop the newspaper fragments, suggesting themes of time, decay, and perhaps the fleeting nature of information in the digital age. This juxtaposition between the ephemeral quality of the clippings and the more permanent, enveloping background elicits contemplation on the impermanence of media and the transient nature of human knowledge. Furthermore, the subtle incorporation of delicate brushstrokes and the wispy, almost ethereal ambiance adds a dreamlike quality to the piece. This invites the viewer to delve deeper into the abstract narrative, creating a personal connection and interpretation of the work. In summary, this artwork is a captivating and intricate exploration of memory, history, and the passage of time. The innovative use of color, composition, and texture distinguishes it as a poignant and thought-provoking masterpiece.
Robert van Bolderick was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1968 and is of both Swedish and Dutch descent.
Grew up in Stockholm and from age eleven in Las Palmas de Grand Canarias, Spain. Growing up in the pulse of a cosmopolitan city like Las Palmas and its mix of nationalities gave Robert an early interest in various languages and symbols which he uses in his art today. He is focused mostly on mixed media, combining acrylic, oil and tempera with the praxis of collage. This unique combination gives life to his art by expressing dreamlike and vibrant scenarios. Rhythm, pattern and balance are important, while images and text fragments are prominent but do not give the viewer all the information. His art captures the essence of dreams and memories which are fragmented and provide only a glimpse of what happened. Robert will often create an image in which the meanings of the adjacent symbols change, using hieroglyphs and cave paintings along with modern symbols, old family pictures, notes, recent events, or historical extracts in text and images. The familiar imagery loses its inherent symbolic value and becomes part of a new image.

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