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ABOUT
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Background |
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| Marije Kos,
visual artist,
poet and
art historian: Her canvasses - in many divergent sizes - exhibit an
expressive brush stroke, yet a rather limited colour range.
Kos is fascinated by natural phenomena and earth’s surface untouched by human influence. Man has brought a transformation greater than that effected by any previous life form on earth. However, her direct inspiration often lies in nature as it appears in her daily surroundings, where through her eyes common trees can look like natural phenomena untouched by humans. Starting from reality she introduces a mixture of recognizable and abstracted elements, often resulting in a remotely scenic environment with trees, clouds, water, deserted land. The paintings obviously have no single meaning, but many layers. Going by the poetic titles the shapes can become symbols and metaphors in a somewhat estranged landscape, an imaginary place.
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Volumes of poetry |
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| Marije Kos has also written poetry.
Images and words are constantly interacting and form a continuous flow
that needs to be recorded on canvas or on paper. There are
four volumes of poetry: "The sound is fading"(1998, isbn 90-77312-04-8),
"On the other side"(1999, isbn 90-77312-03-x), "Escape routes"(2002,
isbn 77312-02-1) and "Terrestrial tears and other signs"(2004, isbn
90-77312-01-03).
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Studio address |
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| Haagweg 21, 4814 GA Breda | ||