Marc Bijl and Frank Ammerlaan part of fundraising event

Marc Bijl and Frank Ammerlaan take part in a fundraising event in Berlin. Their works will be sold with a special discount. Send us an e-mail for specific price information. 

Artworks building on the Eighties series by Marc Bijl are part of this fundraising.

These new works by Marc Bijl refer to the song titles of 80s hits. The artist notes that the 1980s were a time of large uncertainty and dystopian predictions of what was to come... Arguably analogous to our current times in the 2020s, with pandemics, war and climate change. In his works, Bijl often refers to musical periods at large, wherein he then highlights the doom and gloom of the particular.

By Frank Ammerlaan the work Untitled (Body Armor Series) is part of the fundraising.

Ammerlaan's leadworks, are realised in a material that is contaminated with meaning, poisonous and alchemical. Lead, used as protection from radiation in hospitals and nuclear power plants, chemically is the end result of millions of years of decay of the unstable Uranium element. According to Ammerlaan, ‘physically the material is soft and seems to be as malleable as reality itself, whilst being used to protect the flesh against its former radioactive self’. Through the process of alchemical transformation, which stretches over time, lead creates resistance against its own radiative movement.

 

Image 1 |
1. TOP LEFT | Eighties (Love and Pride) 1/2 GOLD, 2022
paint and spraypaint on woodpanel
25 x 30 cm

2. TOP RIGHT | Eighties (Love Like Blood) 1/2 BLACK, 2022 
paint and spraypaint on woodpanel
25 x 30 cm

3. BODEM LEFT | Eighties (Love and Pride) 1/2 SILVER, 2022 
paint and spraypaint on woodpanel
25 x 30 cm

4.BODEM RIGHT | Eighties (Love Like Blood) 2/2 GOLD, 2022 
paint and spraypaint on woodpanel
25 x 30 cm
SOLD

 

Image 2 | Untitled (Body Armor Series), 2022
Lead
17 x 13 cm
SOLD

 

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Publication date: 14 Sep '22