An artist may incorporate
almost everything in his work: Nature, literature, dream images, trivial images
of daily life or grand examples from art history, indeed anything. However,
defining the inspiration of an artist does not bring us closer the secret of
his art. The fact that certain images are a starting point does not entirely
explain the final result, which evolves from an enigmatic and almost
inaccessible process. We may have words in mind and express thoughts into
words. It is as mysterious to have images in one’s thoughts, as it is to
express thoughts into images. A thought becomes an image and the image
continues the thought, one might say (with a nod to Nijhoff, the Dutch poet).
One image leads to another. That’s what thinking is in visual art.
Teaching/lecturing
From 2007 till 2014 Carel was lecturer at the ArtEZ art school in Arnhem, the Netherlands in the Fine Art
with specialisation in sculpture. He also coached the third and fourth year
student for their bachelor. He is guest lecturer at Aki Enschede, st. Lucas Brussels and the Willem de
Koning Academy Rotterdam. At the moment he
is giving workshops at art school considering techniques and conceptual use of
this; like : what can you do with casting bronze and aluminium in contemporary
art.
Collections
His work is
collected by Haags Gemeente Museum, the Hague; Museum of modern art, Apeldoorn;
ABN-Amro art collection, Amsterdam; AKZO Nobel art collection, Arnhem; Province
of Gelderland art collection, Arnhem; Province of Noord Holland art collection,
Haarlem; Rijnstate hospital art collection, Arnhem; Aras Eanna art centre,
Ireland; Godot, Seoul Z Korea and private collectors.
Commissions
An important part
of his artwork can be found in public space. The best examples are: The branche
of Salzburg, inspired by the French author Stendhal, Zeist, 2009; Lotus, sculpture at the wedding
entrance of the town hall of Diemen, 2002;
A botanical
guided tour, Laren NL, 2005; Entrance Amstelpark Amsterdam, 2007; st. Quivan’s
cross, Inis Oìrr, co Galway, Ireland, 2007; The seaweed bridge in Hoorn, 2007;
Project design for a special Dutch coin, 400 years Netherlands—Manhattan,
ministry of finance, the Hague, 2008; 100 ceramic objects in new town
Westeraam. The object are situated in niches in the walls of the new
constructed houses, 2009; A monument for nature, Tynaarlo, a commission of the province of Drenthe, 2011.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions since 1981 with a summary of
the most important ones:
Museum of modern art the Hague solo; Handlungsraum,
Galerie Ehrhard Dresden
(D), solo; Kunst-rai, A'dam (S Biederberg gallery, A’dam); Triade,
sculpture
exhibition
in Apeldoorn; Evora,
a luz Holandesa, Museum of Evora, Portugal;
Prima
Materia, exhibition nominee’s Materiaalfonds & Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam;
ZT, duo exhibition in Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Mutatis
Mutandis Broerenkerk Zwolle,
contemporary sculpture;The many faces of the bank, ABN AMRO art collection the
Hague; Die Holländische Welle, artspace Berlijn (D); Die Stadt wird zu Galerie- Nordhorn, Germany; Draußen vor
der Tür, Archipel, Apeldoorn; Double portraits,
Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy; Hotel Europe, Aorta gallery of photography, Chisinau,
Moldavia; Per Saldo, Noord Brabant’s museum,
‘s-Hertogenbosch, ABN
Amro Art collection; Museum of modern art, Apeldoorn; Tendency, Paraplufabriek
and Marienburgkapel in Nijmegen; Gallery Godot, Seoul South Korea; Aras Eanna, Inis Oìrr, Ireland; De
Branderij, Unreasonable
optimism 2, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum
of Modern Art Arnhem, “Made in Arnhem ad Inis Oìrr”; Seoul International Art Festival, South
Korea; Museum of
modern art, Harbin, China; Pakt M2
Amsterdam; the glasshouse, Amstelpark, Amsterdam; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Shadowplay III Shallow then
halo, Gele Rijder, Arnhem; 4de Höhler Biennale Gera, Germany;
New saints, Gallery Objectief Enschede; The lecturer and his students,
Kunstverein Das Haus im Park, Emmerich, Germany; Essent headquarters Arnhem, nu montant et descendant l’escalier’; Drawing,
Áras Éanna T H Gallery, Galway Ireland; Biennale Gelderland,
Valkhofmuseum Nijmegen; The Beckettness of Inis Oìrr, interdisciplinary
project with visual art, music and theatre, Aras Eanna Ireland; SART, NANO Gold, stereo
photography in collaboration with Optical Science, University Twente, NL;
Pronounceables ll, Gallery Arttra Amsterdam NL; Pronounceables lll, Galerie Espace Enny Laag
Keppel NL; Tetem, Enschede, Phantom Reality Reset. Curator and participant of "Soundscape ll", Espace Enny, www.espaceenny.nl
translation nl-english: Hanny Keulers
