Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Cocky Art

Artist Cees Krijnen has collaborated with with Freundenthal/Verhagen, Jason Wallis-Johnson and Oscar Süleyman to create this striking image which is both fantasy based and humorous. The work injects the penile imagery and literally sugar coats it in order for it to compliment its surroundings. This piece tackles the issues of virility and fantasy in a naive manner.


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Cees Krijnen is a master at mixing art and life, and mixing socially
engaged statements with the purest of 'ego-docu-drama'.
Personal involvement always provides him with his point of departure.
In the work it is not fact and fiction that are interwoven
so much as various levels of reality that are created.
'I don't keep anything from the audience, I just give them what it is.
It has a lot of integrity', says Krijnen sincerely.
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