ROB VAN DER HOEVEN & BIRGIT VERWER
Although Rob van der Hoeven uses the occasional cliché, he does it in such an ironic and ingenious way that the view he presents is both palatable and unfamiliar. Rob’s works, pressed from molds in polystyrene, are almost iconic through their use of just a few colors per work and the translation of ideas into simple, cartoon-like, images. His socially critical works mostly express the complexity of our society in which the relation between offender and victim can be unclear. His images are presented in bite-size pieces with just one message per work, reinforced by a text.
Birgit Verwer’s impressive and exuberant sculptures are assembled from found and collected materials and have a socially critical aspect to them. The glamorous decors of eighties game shows are mainly what inspires her. On closer examination, these decors were not at all as glamorous as they appeared to be: they were merely facades in which nothing was what it seemed to be and in which life was presented as a game.
www.robvanderhoeven.nl
www.birgitverwer.com
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