Jeroen Smits: Artista
HOLISM
“Nature’s tendancy, to form a greater truth than the sum of its parts, through creative evolution”
Is the idea that all the properties of a given system (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.
Jan Smuts,1923
Jeroen Smits, takes apart materials, like he is unravelling the truth. Layer by layer, his work is honest, direct, and shows pure sentiments and clarity of intensions. He explains that; “First I touch and feel the materials, observe their possibilities, listen to them, and that is where I start working, to create a story”. “It is like life itself, we are built up out of small particles, chained coincidences. We are the result, as well as continuously in progress, a form of transit, playing part in a greater manifestation of coincidental creation. I am one with my works”.
Jeroen Smits’ creative process is born from the real not the ideal. Always working with recycled materials, breathing life back into abandoned things and treasures.
Thus pointing out the forgotten value of what we have disposed of.
“Making these works, I feel like the means of ‘something bigger’. I feel the need to show the symptoms of our consumption-society, by freezing places and times. I act as a mirror, reflecting what people throw away. Everything humanity ‘gets rid off’.
“Once these objects are finished, they will form part of others’ histories and will ‘tell’ what they lived through. They’ll hide their own stories which also form other people’s stories and which go beyond mine. Those who stop and take a look at my work finish the work that I started by carrying on the story and pouring new life into the materials that have been re-created.”
For this artist the process of starting a project is equally important as the ‘finished’ creation. He compares it with traveling, with the action of drifting. A certain romantic spirit surfaces his art and with it he uncovers stories hidden from others’ eyes, revealing what lies beneath the patina of time.
Materials are important to Jeroen Smits vis-á-vis the form once taken by an object, its physical characteristics, and the contrasts between them; his work is a ‘time filter’. And by adding light to the objects he reveals some of its surprising transparencies and the reasons that bind them; connections between time and place.
Jeroen Smits’ work breaks with the idea of art which accepts only the inherent nobility of material as valid. He is concerned with all the material’s attributes and qualities and tries to show the essence of them.
The 'light objects', created by Jeroen Smits, represent a new kind of ‘urban post-consumptive archaeology’. He exposes ‘cast-out’ materials in its naked beauty and adds light to reveal some of the many surprising transparencies.
For the ‘El Feile’ he is showing some work made from materials found in Ireland, Catalunya and other places he visited over the last years.
LEARN TO CREATE FROM DARKNESS, FROM NOTHING, FROM AN EMPTY STAGE, TO REVEAL A WORLD OF HISTORY AND LIGHT.
Links: e-mail me
“Nature’s tendancy, to form a greater truth than the sum of its parts, through creative evolution”
Is the idea that all the properties of a given system (physical, biological, chemical, social, economic, mental, linguistic, etc.) cannot be determined or explained by its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines in an important way how the parts behave.
Jan Smuts,1923
Jeroen Smits, takes apart materials, like he is unravelling the truth. Layer by layer, his work is honest, direct, and shows pure sentiments and clarity of intensions. He explains that; “First I touch and feel the materials, observe their possibilities, listen to them, and that is where I start working, to create a story”. “It is like life itself, we are built up out of small particles, chained coincidences. We are the result, as well as continuously in progress, a form of transit, playing part in a greater manifestation of coincidental creation. I am one with my works”.
Jeroen Smits’ creative process is born from the real not the ideal. Always working with recycled materials, breathing life back into abandoned things and treasures.
Thus pointing out the forgotten value of what we have disposed of.
“Making these works, I feel like the means of ‘something bigger’. I feel the need to show the symptoms of our consumption-society, by freezing places and times. I act as a mirror, reflecting what people throw away. Everything humanity ‘gets rid off’.
“Once these objects are finished, they will form part of others’ histories and will ‘tell’ what they lived through. They’ll hide their own stories which also form other people’s stories and which go beyond mine. Those who stop and take a look at my work finish the work that I started by carrying on the story and pouring new life into the materials that have been re-created.”
For this artist the process of starting a project is equally important as the ‘finished’ creation. He compares it with traveling, with the action of drifting. A certain romantic spirit surfaces his art and with it he uncovers stories hidden from others’ eyes, revealing what lies beneath the patina of time.
Materials are important to Jeroen Smits vis-á-vis the form once taken by an object, its physical characteristics, and the contrasts between them; his work is a ‘time filter’. And by adding light to the objects he reveals some of its surprising transparencies and the reasons that bind them; connections between time and place.
Jeroen Smits’ work breaks with the idea of art which accepts only the inherent nobility of material as valid. He is concerned with all the material’s attributes and qualities and tries to show the essence of them.
The 'light objects', created by Jeroen Smits, represent a new kind of ‘urban post-consumptive archaeology’. He exposes ‘cast-out’ materials in its naked beauty and adds light to reveal some of the many surprising transparencies.
For the ‘El Feile’ he is showing some work made from materials found in Ireland, Catalunya and other places he visited over the last years.
LEARN TO CREATE FROM DARKNESS, FROM NOTHING, FROM AN EMPTY STAGE, TO REVEAL A WORLD OF HISTORY AND LIGHT.
Links: e-mail me
