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Photography, drawings:
Bas Ketelaars
Texts:
Tim Ingold
Helen Westgeest
Design:
Rob van Hoesel
Print:
NPN Printers (NL)
Supported by:
Mondriaan Fonds
Jaap Harten Fonds
Vincent van Goghhuis
Gemeente Breda
Is nature a place, an all-encompassing system, or an ideal that we carry within us? The work of Bas Ketelaars (NL) emerges from an interest in the problem of representing nature. A nature that is unreachably far away and yet all around us. Where does culture end and nature begin, or is there really a difference?
With the romantic tradition in mind, Ketelaars explores the landscape in a personal and experiential way. Hereby he is interested in both the means of photography and drawing in order to create images where different systems produce the image together. Proximity and distance, space, transparency, densification, or transformation, can be the starting point of his work. In his photographs, he explores the space between the lens and the vista. By using that space, not only the space but also the artist becomes visible. The speed and efficiency of the photograph contrasts with the manual slowness of the drawing. Seclusion in nature becomes seclusion in the studio.
Residencies are an important part of Ketelaars’ practice, often as a starting point for creating new work. One of his recent visits was to Białowieza National Park in Poland, famous among biologists for being located in the heart of the largest primeval forest of Europe. Ther he took photographs, often in sequences, moving small details in each image or using filters that he places between the camera and the subject. Always in search of a new representation of nature.
Edges of Landscape is a work in itself in which Ketelaars combines his photographic material with drawings in an experimental manner for the first time.
Including essays is by Helen Westgeest, Associate Professor of Modern Art History and Theory of Photography and Tim Inghold, Professor of Social Anthropology.
In 2009, Bas Ketelaars graduated from the Master of Fine Arts at Sint Lucas Antwerp with honours. Since then he focuses mainly on drawing and (analogue) photography around the theme of nature. Nature as a place, as an all-encompassing system or as an ideal we carry within us. Ketelaars’ art practice consists of a combination of studio work, exhibitions and residencies. Residencies are an important part of his practice as a starting point for creating new work and for reflection. He participated in residencies and exhibitions in Germany, Finland, Norway, Poland, Lithuania, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2013, he co-founded the nomadic artist initiative Wo Meine Sonne Scheint in Rotterdam with Beatrijs Dikker, with the aim of supporting artists in making and showing their work.