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Edwin Zwakman |
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Aquarium I, 2010, c-print, lightbox, 250x350x20 cm Tree Hugger, 2010, shangfeng park Sjanghai Early Learning Centre, 2007, c-print, 193x143 cm Mirror Mirror, 2007, c-print, 130x175 cm Pylon, 2007, c-print, 190x145 cm Three Things, 2006, c-print, diasec, rynobond, 130 x 265 cm View Cart, 2006, c-print, diasec, rynobond, 160x200 cm FLy Over III, 2003, c-print, plexi, reynobond, 220 x 161 cm Dozen, 2002, c-print, plexi, reynobond, 220x164 cm Pfluggõsslein, 2002, c-print/dibond/perspex, 171x122 cm View, 1994, c-print, 220 x 160 cm Museum Site, 1993, c-print, plexi, reynobond, 220x150 cm
Aquarium I, 2010, c-print, lightbox, 250x350x20 cm
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A carefully framed, fictitious situation which is, however convincingly
real, is Edwin Zwakman's (1969, The Hague) answer to the
overwhelming stream of images inundating us every day and simulating (as
with the CNN broadcasts of the Gulf War) a reality which more often than
not, proves to be a lie. Zwakman, on the contrary, resorts to tricks and
fabricates lies in order to tell uncomfortable truths. although power
and authority are barely suggested here, and only subtly represented
trough their stereotypes, the effect is all the more powerful. For these
stereotypes are omnipresent and have been etched deep in our collective
memory. Juxtaposing them with each other in contradictory settings,
Zwakman awakens hitherto undefined, yet somehow familiar anxieties, as
it were, from the interstice between one image and another, as though
through cracks opening op to vision of a veritable abyss.
(Brouwer, M. (2008) ‘Framing Reality’ in: Zwakman, E ‘Fake But Accurate’
Amsterdam, Schirmer Mosel, p 128)
Edwin Zwakman has had many international
presentations, a.o. Huis Marseille Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008), Ludwig
Forum Aachen, Germany (2007), Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Paris, France (2006), Taipei Biennial (2002) etc. Upcoming: In
September 2011Edwin Zwakman will have a retrospective at the OCAT,
the He Xiangning Art Museum in
Shanghai together with Lui Jianhua. |
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