Shrine II
Robert Hodgins working on a monoprint at The Artists’ Press, Witrivier, South Africa
Based on a 2003 photo ©The Artists’ Press
Stoneware with engobe, underglaze painting, stains, oxides and glazed details
Approx. 135x190x5mm
Private collection
David Hockney working on ‘The Arrival of Spring in East Yorkshire’, 2011
Porcelain with engobe, stains and oxides
Approx. 135x190x5mm
Private collection
Rosanjin trimming a pot
Porcelain with stains, oxides and glazed details
Approx. 190x135x5mm
Franz West as a Madonna of Mercy
Stoneware with engobe, underglaze painting and oxides
Approx. 190x135x5mm
Private collection
Thomas Mann in the Villa Mondatori Garden, 1952
Porcelain with underglaze inlay and glazed details
180x15x5mm
Woody Allen Gives a Press Conference
Two porcelain tablets with engraved drawing and oxides
2011
Each tablet: 106x157mm
Total size: 214x157x3mm
Philip Roth announces his retirement with the words ‘the struggle with writing is over’.
After a 2012 photo by Fred R Conrad
Porcelain tablet with engobe inlay and underglaze painting
160x120x4mm
Pierre Bonnard photographed in 1951 by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Porcelain tablet oxides
Approx160x1050x4mm
Private collection
The mountaineer Reinhold Messner. Film still from the 1984 Herzog film ‘Gasherbrum, der leuchtende Berg’.
Stoneware with underglaze painting and oxides
153x116x6 mm
Private collection
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Stoneware tablet with slip-trailed and underglaze drawing and glazed areas.
2010
150x100x4mm
Shrine II
Installation of porcelain and stoneware tablets, watercolours on paper, and wallpaper with watercolour and pencil
2014
Exhibited at Someone Like You (with Astrid de Pauw and Cecilia Jaime), Galerie Hommes, Rotterdam
With portraits of and quotations relating to Thomas Mann, Klaus Kinsky, Aby Warburg, Reinhard Messner, Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay, Werner Herzog, David Hockney, Robert Hodgins, Frank Auerbach, Franz West, Lucian Freud, Philip Roth, Richard Sennett, Gerrit Rietveld, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Woody Allen, Henri Matisse and Roland Barthes, a study of Rembrandt’s Faust, and scenes from Herzog's Gasherbrum and The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner.
An interrogation of masculinity and ideas of genius, originality, and personal myth making.
Photos: Sander van Wettum, Heleen Schröder, Efrat Zehavi