Past Events
ronald de bloeme
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July 2008 – 25 August 2008
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Biography
The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased
to present Ronald De Bloeme’s exhibition Best Discount.
Following de Bloeme’s recent success at the VOLTA Show in
New York, the paintings of this young Berlin-based Dutch
painter, have been described by the New York Times as ‘eye-catching,
talismanic abstraction.’
The
core of the exhibition is formed from de Bloeme’s
new
large-format enamel on canvas works. These colourful works speak
of the influence that consumer goods and the advertising world
have on art. Christoph Tannert - art critic and curator - has
stated that de Bloeme’s works reflect and reduce the constant
presence of packaging, national symbols, video games and
pictograms and their everyday penetration of our gaze. 'As
an artistic inheritor of Dadaism, de Bloeme brings collage into
the Internet age as he collapses the four dimensional media
universe into these two dimensional canvasses’ (www.berlin.unlike.net).
De Bloeme has called himself, not without pride, a ‘visual
pirate’.
Composition
is said to be the will to communicate – does this summarize the
work of Ronald de Bloeme? Precisely: this will is central to his
reflections and investigations about the nature of visual
communication systems. The desire to reach others expresses
itself with varying intensity - aggressive, tenderly, quietly,
loud, self-interested, unselfishly. ‘Communication is the
highest capitalistic virtue.’ (Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin,
June 2007)
Solo exhibitions during
2008 have included the
Hamish Morrison Galerie,
Berlin; VOLTA Show, New York; the Berlinische Galerie,
Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin; and the Stedilijk Museum
Schiedam, The Netherlands. Ronald de Bloeme has also shown in
various group exhibitions in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden
and France. His paintings are included in numerous collections
throughout the world including the Rabobank, GASAG, Galerie Neue
Meister in Dresden, Espacio 1414 in San Juan, CBK in Rotterdam
and Berlinische Galerie in Berlin.
Winner of
the Vattenfall Art Award Energy 2007, Ronald de Bloeme
studied Fine Arts at
the Willem de Kooning Akademie in Rotterdam. He
has been living and working in
Berlin since 2000, when he was awarded a scholarship at the
Künstlerhaus Bethanien.