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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 15.7x23.6in
About this artwork
There is a duality at play in these paintings: the subjects are facing the viewer but are these people welcoming the viewer or are they saying goodbye? Is it a joyous occasion or is it tinged with melancholy?
(oil on photograph, mounted on canvas frame)
Jarik Jongman
Netherlands
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Credentials
- Group shows participant
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Covered by the Press
- Solo shows participant
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
« Every painting is an experiment. »
In 2010, he won first prize (shared) in the UK National Open Art Competition, with Gavin Turk as jury chairman. His work has been selected for the Threadneedle Prize and the John Moores Prize, and was exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial in 2012.
In 2017, he won the Luxembourg Art Prize.
His work is included in collections both in the Netherlands and abroad.
He uses his own photographs as well as material found at flea markets and on the internet as a starting point for his work, in which architecture often plays a role.
Recurring themes in his work include: metaphysics, transience, history and the human condition.