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Willem Schotten
1960, artist, graphic designer
and illustrator
Opleiding: d' Witte Leli, 1984
Werkend lid van KCB, Bergen NH
Contact: 06 25133640
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My objects are the visualisation of my passion for old, weathered materials, textures and colors. The materials and articles that I collect for years and years, forming a versatile palette: the basis for my work.
I usually build an assembly around an iconic ‘objet trouvé’. This forms the basis for a balanced construction, in which I give a new content to merged materials and objects. The work thus created gets its own atmosphere, sometimes with a nod to nature, religion, music or technique.
My materials are discarded, worn, faded and weathered. They must have been used and worn out as impermanence often plays a role in my work. From fascination with the past, but also by the realization that past and present are inextricably linked.
Willem Schotten