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HEDOF
Rick Berkelmans enjoys developing his ideas into a considered mix of images, typography and colour, cut to the core. His illustrations are full of action and humor and have a fresh vintage look. The most important thing, he thinks, is that his work has a certain attitude and personality. After his graduation last year he now works as a freelance illustrator / designer under the name Hedof.
GOUVERNE
ZATERDAG 5 NOV
13.00 > 14.30 u
WASCO
Wasco is, zo wordt beweerd, het best bewaarde geheim van de Nederlandse strip. Onlangs nog in het Graphic Design Museum te zien in het kader van de Kunst Strip Beurs was Wasco te bewonderen met een selectie tekeningen, animaties en schetsen te aanschouwen die samen een goede impressie gaven van zijn werk. Wellicht nog leuker hij was live aan the werk te zien.
Zijn oeuvre bestaat uit korte traditionele stripverhalen maar hij zoekt ook constant de grenzen van het striptekenen op wat resulteert in abstract werk. Zijn oeuvre is omvangrijk, want hij dwingt zichzelf elke dag te tekenen.Henk van der Spoel (1957), who uses the pseudonym Wasco, is a representative of the Pseudo-Naïve comic school. He studied at the AKI in Enschede and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Since the late 1980s, he self-publishes and prints his own magazines and books. His ‘Wasco’s Weekblad’ was launched in 1989, and in this “weekly” he printed the first episodes of his ‘Apenootjes’ strip.He self-publishes new books on a regular base through his mini-publishing firm Microbe, including ‘Apenootjes’, ‘Wasco’s Comics and Stories’ and the sketchbook ‘De Wasco Lijn’. His main characters are the dog ‘Phiwi’ and its boss ‘Tuitel’. Other creations are ‘Zomer’ and ‘De Vier Verdedigers’. He has contributed to the alternative comics magazine Zone 5300 since its first issue, and his illustrations have also appeared in Vrij Nederland, MUG magazine and VPRO-Gids.
As Wanda Scott, he has published erotic work like ‘Dotty Wervelwind’, the ‘Fantoma’ series, ‘Wanda’s X-Rated Drawings’ and ‘Jungle Meisje en de Geheime Grot’. Discovered by Joost Swarte, Wasco can be called an “artist’s artist”. He has a large fanbase among Dutch comic artist, especially for his uncompromising, personal and abstract style. (bron; Lambiek)
Wasco’s blog
Recent interview met Wasco op Mike’s Webisodes
GOUVERNE
ZATERDAG 5 NOV
13.00 > 14.30 u
MILAN BOONSTRA
Pas nog te zien geweest in OPPERCLAES; de ‘Freaks Come Out at Night’ show van Milan Boonstra.
‘While most people act reasonably normal during the day, they really let themselves go at night. drugs and alcohol make them more real then they really are. Instead of behaving like people expect them to, they can finally reveal their true faces. When the sun goes down, everybody is his own king and his own downfall.
Milan Boonstra, a Rotterdam based photographer, is often seen scouring the streets and the nightlife with his camera, looking for the weird and the crazy. Inspired by the night he started shooting this never ending series, taking him all over Europe searching for these moments.’ ( bron; OPPERCLAES)
GOUVERNE
ZATERDAG 5 NOV
15.00 > 16.15 u
DAVID SHILLINGLAW
David Shillinglaw (1982), geboren in het Midden Oosten, woont en werkt in Londen. Studeerde aan Saint Martins en heeft sinds 2002 shows in Engeland, Japan, China, Berlijn, Istanbul, New York en was ook al eerder in Rotterdam te zien in de Singer Sweat Shop . In 2010 kwam zijn boek ‘Colourful Condition’ uit bij Agnes b Headquarters met een voorwoord van de befaamde street artist King Adz. David Shillinglaw schrijft columns voor Modart, maar kijk ook opnonewenemies.net
Vrijdag 7 oktober opende ‘KEEP SMILING’, in OPPERCLAES, één van de meest sympathieke galeries in Rotterdam. In OPPERCLAES zijn nog tot 7 november zijn installaties, tekeningen en schilderijen te zien. Ook zijn er een tweetal copyzines te koop, inclusief het speciaal voor deze expositie gemaakte Keep Smiling-zine. Op het Image Festival zal David op 5 november zijn werk, zijn quotes, zijn achtergrond als beeldmaker toelichten.
www.david shilling law
www.opperclaes
GOUVERNE
ZATERDAG 5 NOV
13.00 > 14.30 u