We are happy to announce distance and time, an exhibition by Ien Dobbelaar, as a result of her activity during her stay at Studio Kura.
Ien Dobbelaar is a visual artist based in Leiden.
She completed her Bachelors in three dimensional art at Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Den Haag.
The human being in all its aspects frequently appears in Ien’s work.
Power and simplicity are very important; she moves on the boundaries of recognizable and unrecognizable.Her endeavors are to represent a deeper dimension: watching becomes contemplation. She worked with different materials, such as plaster, steel, fabric. It ranges from small sculptures to installations.
The last years she concentrated on photography and drawing. Subject in her photos are the elderly (the solitude, but also the beauty of the last years of life) often combined with images of small children. The feature of Ien’s photo work is the way she works with her camera: she prefers simple, out-of-focus and often black and white images.
Ien: “A piece of art gets its value by memory, remainders and reflections of a personality. By using simple images and eye-catching details I want to touch the remainders of human life, the left “luggage”.
Here are some words from the artist herself.
Japan… rice fields surround me: perfection and imperfection of the way the plants are put in the ground.. in rows….. same distance….. but it seems like some of them need more space and are out of line. This (non) rhythm is certainly an inspiration. Old ladies… passing by every morning to go to work, another rhythm…
Ien Dobbelaar “distance and time”
Date: July 23 (Saturday) & 24 (Sunday), 11:00 to 19:00, free entrance
* We will hold an artist talk and opening party on Saturday the 23rd, starting at 15:30.
* Exhibitions by other 3 artists (Marijke Wijgerinck, Enriqueta Vendrell, Elise Broadway) will be held during the same exhibition period.