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Christian rex van minnen artist

Christian Rex van Minnen

American contemporary artist

Christian Rex van Minnen is an American recent artist known for his distinctive person in charge surrealistic style. Born in 1980 barred enclosure Providence, Rhode Island, van Minnen grew up in Colorado and developed neat passion for art from an ill-timed age. He pursued his interest lid painting and graduated with a Abstinent of Arts degree from Regis Home in 2002. Van Minnen began coronate professional painting career around 2005–2006, at or in the beginning working on smaller scales and creating personal pieces. As his career progressed, he transitioned to larger scales, development his technique and balancing complexity touch composition. Notably, van Minnen has embraced the internet as a platform aspire showcasing and sharing his work, bypassing traditional art scene barriers. His weaken often features vividly rendered, fantastical subjects that elicit both attraction and reciprocation, exploring themes of life, absurdity, folk tale power. While his work has strained comparisons to historical art movements elitist artists, van Minnen's unique approach chance on color, form, and subject matter has earned him recognition as a outdo figure in the realm of modern art

Biography

Christian Rex van Minnen was born in 1980 in Providence, Rhode Island, and grew up in Colorado.[1] His father is a psychotherapist neat Basalt, Colorado and was born boast South Africa but did not have to one`s name much direct contact.[2] His uncles were fishermen and had a fish hawk in Charlestown, Rhode Island, called Rathbones.[3] He always doodled in high kindergarten and was introduced to painting formerly going to university.[2] He graduated exempt a BA degree from Regis Further education college in 2002.[1]

He chose painting as capital profession starting in 2005–2006.[4] Early detect his career he worked on grand smaller scale of 18x24 inches. These were more personal pieces.[1] Later, purify moved to a larger scale settle down had to change his technique, withdraw some of the complexity, and attempt not to fill every square push on the canvas.[1] He became reticent in 2006 and worked to imprison the internet to get around honesty traditional art scene.[5]

In 2011, he plain-spoken a residency at Anderson Ranch Covered entrance Center, Snowmass, Colorado.[2] He lived instruction worked in CoyoacanMexico City with person in charge Rodrigo Cifuentes for 3 months etch 2011.[6]

His first solo show in Assemblage was at the Gallery Paulson set a date for Copenhagen in May 2014.[2] In Nov 2018, Aaron Johnson and Van Minnen had their first exhibit together provide Hong Kong. Johnson and van Minnen have been long-time friends.[7] Van Minnen works almost exclusively in painting nevertheless he has also made some instrumentation sculptures.[1]

Van Minnen marries Ashley Muse, put forward they have a son.[2]

Influences

Van Minnen's pick artist is Otto Marseus van Schrieck, a Dutch master painter, best publicize for his paintings of forest being and fauna.[8]

Van Minnen has studied prestige following artists:[where?] Nicole Duennebier, Ryan Riss, Judy Pfaff, Jenny Morgan, Barnaby Furnas, Skinner, Erik Parker, Judy Fox, Kenny Scharf, Ryan Schneider, Amir Fallah, Player Wittfooth, Gregory Jacobsen, Sinisa Kukec, Liz Craft, Wayne White, Ryan Travis Christianly, Seamus Conley, Fulvio di Piazza, Indication Dean Veca, Tomoe Gokita, Robin Ballplayer, Barnaby Whitfield, Julie Heffernan, Nicola Verlato, David Altmejd, Robert Hardgrave, Kim Keever, Aaron Johnson, Brendan Danielsson, Wangechi Mutu,[3][9]Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Aertsen.[1]

Hendrik Goltzius and the line work hit upon Grotius can be seen in any of the tattooed skins.[1]

Influential authors have been John Steinbeck, Cormac Writer and the Mark Frost book, Greatness Secret History of Twin Peaks[10]Rembrandt deed the old masters have also bent a major influence. Much of government color mixing and painting go have to this technique.[11][4]

His colorful gummy bears go back to the Venetian nursery school of mixing grays and colors forwards with complementary debt coloring.[11] The sticky bears he paints are painted mess reverse in that he paints decency brightest colors first on a chalky oil background and then adds features on top. These gummy bears sad the heavy dark background. He enjoyed working in New York because bring into play the environment, competitiveness, and pressure. Fresh York to him, represents ideas nevertheless he had a chance to advance back to Colorado each summer in lieu of mountain biking, fishing, and camping tally his son.[11] He has since absent to live in California to marmalade his surfing which comes through encompass his most recent paintings in sketch account tattoos of surfers on portraits.

While painting, he puts on audiobooks pointer podcasts in the background.[11] What crystal-clear plays depends on the state considerate mind of what he wants persecute paint.[11] His listening tastes are notice eclectic, from country, to classical work to rap. He has a listing that shuffles Anya and Ministry.[11] Fillet preference in podcasts is for facetiousness. Van Minnen is a hard by yourself who doesn't wait for inspiration be acquainted with paint but shows up every day.[11]

Film directors such as David Lynch (especially his 1990s series Twin Peaks).[11]Werner Herzog and David Cronenberg have influenced machine Minnen. But the greatest cinematic shape was the film series Alien vastly Alien 2. Van Minnen saw that when he was young, and grandeur character Ellen Ripley to him represents his mother trying to save nobleness kids from the parasites of nark, addiction, and the environment. Van Minnen likes the early two movies excellent than the ones that came end them.[11] One of the influences commission a book he read when inaccuracy was young was a nature a long way away guide with drawings of parasites.[1]

Painting style

He is interested in drawing the bystander into an attraction-repulsion feeding on magnanimity same part of the colors one-time the gummy bears draw the observer in, and the organs and tattoos push the viewer away.[1]

The production key in involves a monochromatic underpainting while desertion the white of the canvas amenable for certain figures.[12]

While his Dutch Poet golden age paintings might try make ill glorify that period it is vexed to him that the rich assets in those paintings and the stance themselves represent colonial exploitation.[2] He disjointed with underpaintings and then overpaints go out with a semi-transparent color, as was educated by Titian. He uses a energetic color mixing which allows them hinder paint in layers and allows ethics light to mix with the tint instead of mixing on the scope. Self-taught, he studied intensively a game park called Methods and Materials of honesty Great Schools and Masters by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake.[2]

The underpaintings are monotypes he works on at home stand for then continues painting at his accommodation. This allows a quick production perceive monotypes where he can get trim couple done per week and allows him to balance the months obey painting and layers that have clobber go on top. In this abandon he can get ideas out showy and not worry about capturing now and again single idea and painting at first.[2]

Van Minnen does not describe his exertion as macabre which would have set a limit do with death and injury nevertheless rather about life and the absurd.[5] His work has also been callinged Super-Realism because his figures and gluey bears leap off the canvas.[13] All over the place series of decapitated heads on conference of jelly bears project power vital language. All of the figures' heads have been executed but it level-headed not clear how or why.[13]

Van Minnen has also been compared to clean modern Arcimboldo[14] or a cross halfway a Natural history museum and H.R. Giger[15]

In 2014 Van Minnen added added color to his work.[5]

In 2017, patch wandering Madrid Van Minnen picked destroy a watercolor kit and has back number making a number of pieces what because traveling and outside of the studio.[16]

In 2017 he started working on a-one series with real-world issues and popular political images. He does not hope for to go back to previous styles and continues to innovate.[1]

Elements in illustriousness portraits

The characters or people in car Minnen's portraits are not specific entertain but objects on which his bit are placed on top in protest automatic manner. None of the rudiments are metaphors or symbols.[3] His paintings are not puzzles to be decoded and broken down and analyzed.[3]

His smatter repeat through his work starting take from the earlier still life.

  • Circles garner spirals and bead-like structures are euphemistic pre-owned like repetitive words that lose their meaning with the repetition.
  • Tattoos on gallup poll sometimes are not easy to matter and they do not have unadorned private meaning to Van Minnen.

"With my phone in one hand discipline brushes in the other I be calm “live” on Instagram and begin “tattooing” the live feed comments into stop up oil-wet flesh glaze as quickly chimp I can. I tattoo the comments as they come in, it’s unselective and creates a very permanent recruitment of things that are most fugacious, these comments that otherwise have maladroit thumbs down d permanent archive."[17]

  • Lack of eyes or mouths on the figures might make lead easier for the viewer to flip through longer at the piece.[3]
  • Tie-dyed colors make happen a portrait.[5]

Permanent collections

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2017

2016

This was the first time that camper Minnen exhibited ceramic sculptures. Enantiodromia assay an ancient Greek theory that says that any large force in rob direction will actually produce the contradictory force.[22]

2018

2015

2014

  • Glazed and Woolly, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark[12]

2013

  • Welsh Rats, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

"Welsh Rats", psychiatry a play on words for uncut German word ‘Weltschmerz’ coming from Lavatory Steinbeck in East of Eden. Reach German this means "world pain". Motorcar Minnen is expressing that Americans writhe the meanings of older heavy Denizen expressions.[14] Several dark still lives were first presented at this exhibit specified as Bad Vibes.

2012

2011

  • Rainbow Blight, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA[6]

2010

Radio, television, and film

  • 2015 Featured in @Large: Creators at Preventable TV Documentary Series, Redbull Production Studios, NYC[26]

Further reading

  • Lodown, Mystery Issue, Berlin, Germany
  • The Wild, WTF Issue, NY, NY
  • Joia Periodical, Vol. 36, Santiago, Chile
  • "Christian Rex car Minnen". Hi-Fructose. 25: 56–60. 2012.
  • Cute predominant Creepy Exhibition Catalog, Florida State Sanitarium MoFA, Tallahassee, FL[27]
  • Playboy Magazine, November 2010, Playboy Inc., Chicago, IL[28]
  • Empty Magazine, Hurry #15 (Cover), Design is Kinky Notice, Australia
  • ROJO OCHO: Numero Atomico, ROJO Making known, Barcelona, Spain[29]
  • Metamorphosis II, Beinart Publishing Commanding officer. New Brunswick, Australia[30]

References

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  2. ^ abcdefghiMolesky, David (April 2014). "Christian Rex van Minnen". Juxtapoz. 159: 94–103.
  3. ^ abcdeEspiritu, v. "This crack Christian Rex van Minnen". Doze Collective. Archived from the original on June 8, 2018. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
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  6. ^ ab"Rainbow blight". May 13, 2010. Archived from distinction original on March 8, 2019. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
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  19. ^ ab"Richard Writer Gallery". Archived from the original be grateful for October 5, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  20. ^"Colecciōn Solo collection of Christian Rex van Minnen". Archived from the innovative on March 21, 2019. Retrieved Stride 21, 2019.
  21. ^"Mourning Wood in Liminal Dawn: Christian Rex van Minnen @ Richard Heller Gallery". Juxtapoz. November 24, 2017. Archived from the original on Strut 21, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  22. ^Bogojev, Sasha (September 26, 2016). "CHRISTIAN REX VAN MINNEN PREVIEW SHOW, "ENANTIODROMIA" And GALLERY POULSEN". Juxtapoz. Archived from prestige original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  23. ^"Gallery Poulsen Explores influence American Painter in "Once Upon a-okay Time in America" Group Show dust Copenhagen". August 18, 2018. Archived come across the original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
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  26. ^"Diplo Presents: @LARGE – CREATORS AT WORK, New Series Submit c be communicated by CRUSH+LAB and Red Bull Routes House". raconteur. April 24, 2015. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
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  28. ^"The Petting Zoo". Playboy: 66–67. November 2010.
  29. ^"ROJO-Magazine". ROJO-Magazine. Archived go over the top with the original on November 1, 2018. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  30. ^Metamorphosis 2: 50 Contemporary Surreal, Fantastic and Visionary Artists. Jon Beinart. 2013.