CEES KRIJNEN : The Ultimate Self-Portrait

5 Oct-28 Oct 2012

Overview

For over a decade Dutch artist Cees Krijnen has made art – sculpture, drawing, photography, performance - from the raw material of his own life. His final show at the Rijksakademie initiated the continuing project ‘Woman in Divorce Battle’. In his new work he turns to his father: or rather to the gap left during his adolescence by a father who as a sea-captain was emotionally and physically absent. A gap to be filled by his three most significant art tutors, the father-figures who Krijnen acknowledges formed him as a man and as an artist - from school, Ronald Ruseler, Arthur Kempenaar from the Rietveld Academie, and finally Michelangelo Pistoletto, who was one of his judges for that final Rijksakademie show, and who from then on became his aesthetic and political mentor. The show will consist of a major piece by Krijnen himself, and works by Ruseler and Pistoletto. On the final Sunday of the show (28 October at 4 pm) Krijnen will launch and give a reading from his new autobiography 'The Ultimate Self-Portrait'.