Whether the focus is historical, poetical or theoretical, to look at an artist’s corpus of work always constitutes a journey into the perceptions and projections that form the artist’s way of seeing. It is an enriching investigation into the particular dynamics between materials, ideas and shapes that underlie each art work. It is the fulfilling experience of creatively translating into words someone else’s world view.
Terry Rodgers
Catalogue of the Biennale of Valencia 2005.
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Monkey Trouble
Essay about Mitsy Groenendijk’s sculpture series “People See, People Do” published in Monkeys II (Cologne: Darling Publications, 2005).
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The Drawing Machine
Essay about Thomas Palme’s drawings in The Brick’s Appendix (Cologne: Darling Publications, 2005).
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The Apotheosis of Pleasure
Essay about the latest series of paintings by US realist painter Terry Rodgers published in The Apotheosis of Pleasure (Amsterdam: TORCH Books, 2006) together with an essay “The Absent” by French writer Alina Reyes.
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Mist
On the photographic work of Niels Stomps and the economy of seeing around the Three Gorges Dam
Essay published in the catalogue of the latest series by Dutch photographer Niels Stomps, Mist: Three Gorges Dam (Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers, 2007)
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The Invention of the Real
Essay about the art of the Sanchez Brothers published in The Moment of Rupture/L’Instant de la Rupture
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L’Humanisme Technologique des MASBEDO
A propos de l’oeuvre des MASBEDO
Essay in exhibition catalogue, CAIRN, Digne (France).
Undoing Stigma
On photography, AIDS/HIV and social stigmatization
Essay published in the catalogue of the Moscow project by Dutch photographers Martine Stig and Viviane Sassen commissioned by ArtAids (Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers, 2008)
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Borders in (Stop-)Motion
Essay about the life and works of Indonesian artist Tintin Wulia
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Into The Machine
About William Monk and his paintings
Essay published in the exhibition catalogue of Paintings, a solo show at Grimm Fine Art
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Suto-ri-
Essay about the eponymous film by Dutch visual artist Martine Stig (Amsterdam: Martine Stig, Motive Gallery, 2008).
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Monkey Redemption
Published in Monkey-People (Amsterdam: TORCH Books, 2009).
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Graphic Delight
Terry Rodgers - Drawings
Essay published in the limited edition portfolio Sketchbook (Amsterdam: TORCH Books, 2009).
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Who’s afraid of Leni Riefenstahl?
Essay on the public image of Leni Riefenstahl
(in progress)
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