Rinus van de Velde

Works on Paper

An explorer in the Brazilian jungle, a castaway on a desert island, a chess grandmaster or a star tennis player – Rinus Van de Velde presents a constant succession of alter-egos in life-size charcoal drawings that are invariably explained in English language captions written below them in block letters.

The individual images can stand alone as autonomous works of art, but can also be read in sequence like some storyboard. In this catalogue, Van de Velde tells the story of Isaac Weiss, the leader of an artistsʼ colony and fictive alter ego of the artist himself.

The members of Weissʼ colony are various big-name artists of the twentieth century, including Mark Rothko, Jean Brusselmans and Pablo Picasso.

Published on the occasion of Rinus Van de Velde’s first solo exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 3 December 2016 – 5 March 2017.

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