celeste jose talks about Ronnie Van Hout
Artlink New Zealand volume 26 no2, pages 24 and 25
"Ronnie van Hout is an artist who is similarly attracted to the period between childhood and adulthood, as a zone in which a certain degree of failure is almost a given. Recently van Hout has taken to representing larger issues (such as wars and potential alien invasions) with the paraphenalia of play. An over-grown child, van Hout uses models and miniatures to convey his adult paranoias."
- http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/1997/vanhout/
Pretty much couldn't sum it up better. REading through the article about him I get the feeling his upbringing (in New Zealand) and the strong heritage and tradition they have there (story telling and mysticism (heavy mysticism)) totally influence his work. The image that caught my eye initially i couldn't ind on the internet BUT I will explain what i looks like so here goes. hmm hmm...
it is a sculpture of a rough looking man's face. it is rotting snd decayed with the tip of it's nose gone and it's lips rot away, it is decapitated. on it sits this lil' spooky owl just kind of hanging out. etc. cool.
other works by Hout include:
Sick Chimp
Hello, Goodbye
i guess i lose
photos like...
he's done some cool and very ecceltic stuff. i think a lot of his more recent stuff is very autobiographical and he seems to be in a lot of it, in different guises doing odd things (like craddling birds in his hand)...
http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue108/vanhout.htm
"Ronnie van Hout is an artist who is similarly attracted to the period between childhood and adulthood, as a zone in which a certain degree of failure is almost a given. Recently van Hout has taken to representing larger issues (such as wars and potential alien invasions) with the paraphenalia of play. An over-grown child, van Hout uses models and miniatures to convey his adult paranoias."
- http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/1997/vanhout/
Pretty much couldn't sum it up better. REading through the article about him I get the feeling his upbringing (in New Zealand) and the strong heritage and tradition they have there (story telling and mysticism (heavy mysticism)) totally influence his work. The image that caught my eye initially i couldn't ind on the internet BUT I will explain what i looks like so here goes. hmm hmm...
it is a sculpture of a rough looking man's face. it is rotting snd decayed with the tip of it's nose gone and it's lips rot away, it is decapitated. on it sits this lil' spooky owl just kind of hanging out. etc. cool.
other works by Hout include:
Sick Chimp
Hello, Goodbye
i guess i lose
photos like...
he's done some cool and very ecceltic stuff. i think a lot of his more recent stuff is very autobiographical and he seems to be in a lot of it, in different guises doing odd things (like craddling birds in his hand)...
http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issue108/vanhout.htm
posted by Polly Dance at 2:31 PM
3 Comments:
hey miss over achiever. this guy is cool and rather wierd also.i quite like it.
sylvia:
lame you couldnt find the gross picture of the half eaten head with the eagle and stuff. that piece is exceptionally cool. but in relation to our "word" project the use of text in that image is sweet. its giving me some iiideeaasss!!!!
......*ping!* (thats the sound of a light turning on)
mysticism in NEW zEALAND... NOT TRUE
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