Erik Odijk. The Academy of the Sublime

+++Erik Odijk. The Academy of the Sublime+++

+++Hans Maarten van den Brink, Anne Bruggenkamp, Erik Odijk, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Paul Roncken+++

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‘Erik Odijk makes drawings in his studio and in situ at exhibitions where he draws on the wall. Nature is the protagonist in his oeuvre. The artist roams through untamed landscapes and recapitulates the experience of place in his work. His drawn landscapes have a rugged charm. (…) Erik Odijk depicts the vitality and the darkness of nature. His work is suffused with the idea that the real experience of nature is a euphoric one which is denied to us by our civilized lifestyle. This is why photography is gaining a more prominent role in his present work. Erik Odijk has recently been compiling photographic series relating to his landscape walks. These add an objective angle on the place experience : the photographs are a counterpoint to the drawings, and so expand his study of the experience of nature in the 21st century. (…)’ – Mark Kremer

Het werk van kunstenaar Erik Odijk (1959) bestaat uit tekeningen, fotografie en kunstwerken in de openbare ruimte. Odijk is vooral bekend om zijn grote tekeningen, vaak op locatie of in zijn atelier gemaakt, waarin fragmenten uit de natuur altijd de belangrijkste visuele elementen vormen. Tekeningen die je blik laten dwalen en je laten verbazen over de effecten die Odijk bereikt met voornamelijk zwart-wit tekenmateriaal, zoals bijvoorbeeld houtskool.

Het boek Erik Odijk. The Academy of the Sublime toont een selectie van Erik Odijk's werk van 2005 tot heden. Het boek bestaat uit drie afzonderlijke 'magazines' en illustreert aan de hand van 150 illustraties de drie verschillende disciplines in het oeuvre van de kunstenaar. De afzonderlijke 'magazines' zijn gecombineerd in één groot formaat map. Het grote formaat laat de kijker/lezer als het ware in het werk van Odijk verdwijnen, omdat alle details van het werk op deze manier goed zichtbaar zijn.

Met tekstbijdragen van kunstenaar Erik Odijk, landschapsarchitect Paul Roncken, schrijver en dichter Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, kunstenaar en schrijver Anne Bruggenkamp, en schrijver en journalist Hans Maarten van den Brink.

Met een prachtig ontwerp van Studio Joost Grootens.

'Within the current economic, political and social context in which fear seems so dominate, the dynamics of the Sublime may be particularly relevant. The Sublime can help describe the current depression of the human condition, but also contribute to the formulation of a constructive response. The Sublime is about the experience of an individual who dares to confront and to engage with what is beyond their understanding and knowledge, and tries to make sense of it. It could provide and alternative to the impending madness and the possible disintegration of society.' - Erik Odijk

‘The viewer can become lost in an almost pre‐human world, a world in which people are an anomaly. Often executed in black and white, and often in charcoal, the drawings offer a space that is initially pensive. The experience of and confrontation with nature are crucial for the creation of these pieces.’ – Anne Bruggenkamp

'The oeuvre of Erik Odijk is important because of its trenchant portrayal of one of today’s great issues: our changing perception of nature. His work catches us out with the divided feelings of the nature explorer, who cannot resist the call of the wilderness yet knows that every step taken could add to its destruction.’ – Mark Kremer

Erik Odijk. The Academy of the Sublime

Hans Maarten van den Brink, Anne Bruggenkamp, Erik Odijk, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Paul Roncken

€35.00

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