ABOUT THE PAINTINGS
[CURRENT ART RESEARCH]
Ik ben gefascineerd en geïnspireerd door de hedendaagse architectuur, en voer mijn werk uit in geometrische vormen, in olieverf op doek.
Ik maak gebruik van architectonische elementen die ik reduceer tot vlakken, lijnen en banen. Met de lijnen en banen wil ik tot uitdrukking brengen dat alles met elkaar verbonden is. Ik werk met abstracte vormen en gebruik intuitief heldere of zoete kleuren in mijn schilderijen. Mijn werkzaamheden omvatten o.a. een zoektocht naar een balans tussen vorm en kleur. De schilderijen refereren aan details van een bouwkundig ontwerp.
English:
ENDLESS CONCLUSIONS
My work is based on the visualisation of technological and economic hegemony in contemporary society. I am investigating the different elements of the sociological world [exterior] and how these are related by a continual exchange to the social / technological / economical and political constructed individual identity [interior].
Hereby is the total technological and industrial hegemony in society [a.o. mass media], resulting in the thesis – “Reality is fiction and Fiction is reality” – , an often returning subject matter in my work. This thesis contains a.o. that an artificial reality is created, by which we become an artificial social identity, thus forming the basis of the individual identity.
This complex identity construction – a crucial problem – and the questions that arise in this concept, keeps me fascinated and is the most important reason for researching this situation. Hereby I use images of : a.o. architecture, technology, history of art, mass culture, industrial signs and language.
In my work I refer a.o. to the collective fears and desires in contemporary society and the macro-economic drama. I investigate the connection [links] between these elements and their implications by equalizing several layers of meaning in a twodimensional plane. Meanings of concepts as exterior-interior, figurative-abstract, shift and the meaning of the image can move within a continuum [flows].
In this way I wish to create a shift of wellknown definitions [opinions about ideas as “contradictions”] and I will be able to visualize an exchange between the public and the individual world [spheres]. I use the geometrical art as a social landscape.
It is more the – measuring up -, than a method to offer a solution for these problems.
U r b a n L a n d s c a p e s [Between Stations]
My latest work is based on investigating the influence of modern culture and technology on communication. This series of paintings of monochrome planes and use of urban architectural strategies based on aspects of – landscape – present a social landscape.
The channels represent the [over] > flow of information-streams in contemporary society. For the channels I use – seductive – [contradicting] colours: sweet, fresh and bright. Despite the increase of the information-load, communicating all this seems to be more and more difficult.
My paintings are not only concerned with addressing the idea of alienation of the individual in urbanity, but also to enlarge [or magnify] and dramatise isolation
[or isolate drama]. But there is a given choise – a way in or a way out – .
In my work I wish to reflect the – desire for individuality – and the consuming choises.
The combination of the planes and the placing of the channels [conduits], are painted in a schematic and geometrical form, and are referring to details of an archtectural plan; a cross-section or a view from above [birdseye view], depending on the view-point.
Some thoughts:
I DESIRE THEREFORE I BELONG
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES PROMISE A MIRROR [THAT CONCEALS]
COMMODITIES FULFIL NEEDS [BY REPRODUCING DREAMS]
PHILOSOPHY DEFINES CHOISE [SPLITTING THE KNOWN INTO MORE OF THE OTHER]
WE SHOP FOR OBJECTS [THROUGH NECESSITY, WHIMS, DESIRES]
WE OBTAIN PART OF A COMPLEX [AN ATTITUDE, AN ECONOMY, AN INVOLVEMENT]
MARKS DESIGNATE THE DEGREE OF EXTENSION [COLOURS, SHAPES STYLE = LANGUAGE]
PACKAGING CARRIES OBJECTS [THE PURCHASE ON A LIFESTYLE, A KUDOS, A CULTURE]
WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE ESSENTIAL ART OF PACKAGING [FILM AS LIFE, LIFE AS COMMODITIES]
BEARING THE MARK WE ARE UNIFIED [DELINEATION POSSIBLE THROUGH CLARITY]
Thanks to Mike Mason 1995
[ I am what I buy ] / Moniek Voulon 1995
FOREVER SILENT TRACES
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Italia, mercoledi 21 marzo 2001 | Newspaper, Rome, Italy
Alla Galleria Monogramma di Roma
I “Paesaggi urbani” di Moniek Voulon
Fino al prossimo 29 marzo la galleria romana Monogramma [via Margotta 27] ospita, con il titolo “Paesaggi urbani”, una personale della pittrice olandese Moniek Voulon esponente tra le più rappresentative dell’astrattismo geometrico europeo.
Moniek Voulon con forme rigorosamente delineate e radunate in vibranti colori stesi in superfici impeccabili, in una sorta di gioco visivo frutto di una continua, rigorosa ricerca trasfigura “l’immagine” di uno spazio definito in contrasti cromatici allusivi di una specifica realtà.
Spiega la stessa Voulon nella presentazione della mostra: I lavori di questa mostra sono una nuova serie di quadri che intendono investigare sull’influenza della tecnologia e della comunicazione nella cultura
Moderna….. Uso l’arte geometrica per proporre un paesaggio sociale utilizzando strategie architettoniche per rappresentare un paesaggio sociale urbano. Sono sempre stata affascinata dall’architettura e dal progetto tecnico.
Ispirata da queste immagini, ho realizzato queste serie di quadri in forma schematica, riferendomi ai dettagli di un piano architettonico: una visione frontale, una sezione trasversale oppure una visione dall’alto.
I canali rappresentano l’eccesso di correnti di informazioni nella società”
V. E.
Catalogue of solo exhibition Gallery Monogramma / Rome 2001
In my CURATORIAL PROJECTS I showed a Sculpture of a Black Cube
[120x120x120 cm. | plexiglass | 2003] presented in New York 2004 in
the exhibition “News from Home” + textcitation of Wittgenstein,
placed on all four sides of the cube:
“THE TOTALITY OF TRUE OR FALSE IS A PICTURE OF THE WORLD” [ textcitation of Wittgenstein]