"Falsifying Media" (ENGLISH)

At Art Amsterdam, 2x2projects presents three artists that show an unusually applied media form. One has replaced the canvas by a photo, the other scanned his paintings into the computer, the third made photos of a slide projection. The result of all three artists is neither painting, nor photography. It balances in between.

"Falsifying Media" (NEDERLANDS)

Op Art Amsterdam 10, toont 2x2projects drie kunstenaars die een oneigenlijk gebruik van een medium maken. De ene verving het doek door een foto, de ander scande zijn schilderij in de computer, de derde maakte foto's van een diaprojectie. Het resultaat van alle drie balanceert op de grens van schilderkunst en fotografie.


Laurence Aegerter seems intrigued by systematic patterns, rules of society and mechanisms of human behavior. She investigates their logical, or sometimes illogical order, researching the side effects of a systematic pattern, using her findings as a conceptual source for various visual art projects. Laurence personifies the systems by rearranging them and putting them in a new context. Her work often is visualized as photography, but it can also become a multimedia installation, a video, or a book. She has used systems from both the private and public domain, including encyclopedias, catalogues, daily newspapers, or telephone books. The private domain in this respect can be e.g. the collected memorabilia of a retired athlete, or the administration of a deceased neighbor. At Art Amsterdam her photographic work from the KP23 series will be shown.

After education and working experience as a Graphic Designer, Aquil Copier pursued painting studies at Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, where he graduated in 2004. Since then, he has been exploring the subject of 'landscape' with reference to traditional paintings as well as the contemporary image production in the context of mass-media and information technology. In a new series of works Aquil allowed his analog paintings to be digitalized and reprinted. A remarkable step for a painter to actually involve the digital media after making his painting. Hence the new result is in fact a photo, a reproduction of the actual matter, like a orientation map printed from the internet, which is in fact a snapshot of the landscape. Both paintings and photographic reproductions of paintings will be shown at Art Amsterdam.

Torsten Ruehle lives and works in Berlin. He is a true painter with a significant graffiti art background. As a painter he is busy changing the world: He takes high-energy images, originating from movie stills, newspaper photographs. He reinvents their subject with titles hinting to religious and political statements. He refers to the process as filtering both intellectual meaning and visual aspects. He is modifying and adding new elements to the scene. Through these steps his works becomes a blend of visual quotes merged onto a new canvas or in recent work applied as new layers over old anonymous photographs.