|
Indepth Arts News:
"Dulce y Amargo: Works by Jackie Sleper"
2008-05-08 until 2008-06-20
Museo de la Isla de Cozumel
Cozumel, QR,
MX Mexico
Over two years, 2008 and 2009, Jackie Sleper will have various solo exhibitions at museums in Mexico, curated by Matty Roca. At the beginning of 2008 Jackie Sleper , the winner of the section "Sculpture and Installation" at the Florence Biennale 2007, will go to Mexico for several solo exhibitions curated by Matty Roca, from May 8 through June 20, 2008 her work will be exhibited at Museo de la Isla de Cozumel. For these exhibitions, the Dutch artist has realized a series of works inspired by and dedicated to Frida Kahlo and to Mexico.
Jackie Sl eper has always been fascinated by Mexico and it's artist Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a profound admiration. In 2005, she received an invitation from Matty Roca, art historian and President of the Council for Arts and Culture in Cancun to depict her vision of Mexico. Over the course of two years Jackie Sleper, together with her husband and children, spent many months in the country, where she created many of her works. Jackie says: "Matty became a dear friend. She showed me Mexico. I took in everything around me, spoke with lots of people and, especially, got a sense of the country. My previous love of Mexico only grew stronger. In March my work will be travelling to various museums in Mexico - something I would never have dared dream of as a child. I feel like I am on top of the world. This is the link that completes the chain."
Her modern works are at times reminiscent of Rivera, Orozco, Tamayo and Pollock. Jackie Sleper assumes absolute freedom in applying various techniques and introducing experimental elements: her work is characterised by combinations of photography and painting, and the use of mixed media. In addition to paintings, Jackie creates objects that incorporate a variety of multiple materials, which she transforms into wholly new and surprising concepts. The artist allows her work to be guided by a profound sense of humanism, and she's depicted as an artist in the truest sense of the word: her work has always been grounded in her exploration of human existence and the significance behind it.
Matty Roca: "I have been able to witness Jackie Sleper's development - as a photographer, painter and sculptor - at first hand. Every painting is an intensely personal creation and expression, presenting the world as she perceives it. She is sensitive, intense, mysterious and subtle, but also possesses a cast-iron personality. Above all, she knows exactly what she wants. She conveys her personality with exceptional clarity, so that she is comprehensible for one and all."
Jackie Sleper was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Utrecht Academy for Visual Arts. Between 1988 and 1995 she spent time in Ireland, Spain and Prague for study purposes. Works produced in her home country, the Netherlands, include a tile plateau in honour of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, commissioned by the municipality of Utrecht, and Œlight objects‚ for the Kruisheren Hotel, a design establishment that opened in Maastricht in 2005. Outside the Netherlands, she has exhibited in Antwerp (Art-Event), Stockholm (Art Fair), Marbella (Marb Art - Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo), Geneva (Europ‚Art), Klagenfurt (Biennale Austria), Salzburg (Mozart Festival), Florence (Museo Diocesano and Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea), Milan (Studio D‚Ars), New York (Carrozzini Von Buhler Gallery and CVB Space), and in Mexico. One of her works, Modestia, was exhibited during La Biennale di Venezia, at Open 2007. She won the 1st prize for "Sculpture and Installation" at the Florence Biennale 2007.
Related Links:
| | 
|
