In his work Rotteveel explores the picturesque and sculptural qualities of foil and tape. He feels inspired by the hard-edge and color field painting tradition, among others. Rotteveel searches for the undefined boundaries between materials, dimensions (flat and volume) and high art and low art.
Rotteveel works both on dibond panels and directly onto the wall. His murals are temporary: after an exhibition has finished, Rotteveel takes them down and then they are gone forever. A statement to demonstrate that art should not necessarily hold eternity value, but that the true value is in the moment.
A selection for the Vanderlove Letter by the artist.
Peterborough and Toronto based artist Kathryn Last explores the intersection of creation and the expressivity of material through the artworks that she creates. Kathryn graduated from Trent University in 2013 specializing in Visual theory, Media and Cultural Studies. Kathryn is currently completing her Masters Degree at Trent University pursuing a research creation project in conjunction with her own artistic practice.
Each work begins with an improvised stroke. Kathryn explores and plays with the medium until she is driven in a certain direction. The freedom in Kathryn’s works is felt only because there is a certain level of control; a delicate balance of letting go and mindful restraint. For Kathryn, painting shares a commonality with sculpture in that the two entail a careful construction of textures, layers, and material. Colour is her primary material and she allows it to lead the direction and end result of each artwork.
TheSkinnyType works are focused primarily on hand-cut photographic collages that create idyllic scenarios of young love and intimacy that delicately float between idealism and naturalism and play with different representations of the male figure. These scenes are explored from the dreams and fantasies of an observer who is driven either by the desire of realising impossible scenarios of narcissistic love, or looking for intimate moments created from characters and situations that share nothing in common other that the desire to unite two or more figures together.
These sensual interactions between one guy and himself and the desire to observe these interactions from a voyeuristic perspective are a constant theme throughout TheSkinnyType’s work and form the foundation to his ongoing series ‘Narcissus Dreams’. Carefully selecting his images from magazines and books of photographers that he loves, TheSkinnyType cuts, arranges and glues his pieces by hand to create realistic compositions that are simultaneously tinged with the idealism of a renaissance painting; youthful muscular figures, representing their sinuosity to perfection with a clarity of line and delicate use of light and colour.
More recently, TheSkinnyType has shifted his focus to his series ‘Superimpositions’. These works involve a different type of process whereby he selects pages with images on both sides and superimposes them, to curate a beautifully, visually arresting dialogue between the two existing scenarios.
Crucial to TheSkinnyType’s practice is the nondigital process and the constraints that analogue imposes on us. For TheSkinnyType, being constrained by the physicality and rigidness of the raw material adds to the excitement when two different images are combined to generate a new story or composition – no image is manipulated, scaled, mirrored or filtered. In his unprecedented ability to merge each image with such precision and charm, one likens his work to the traditions of classical sculpture, the history of painting of past centuries, as well as to modernist art movements such as Impressionism.
Elorri Charriton est illustratrice et graphiste, diplômée de la HEAD / Haute École d’Art et Design de Genève. Son travail s’articule principalement autour de design éditorial. Elle dessine pour la presse, sur des murs, pour divers projets et formats. En 2018, elle co-fonde la revue humains, une revue engagée pour la santé, les cultures et la vie communautaire, éditée à Genève. Elle y développe principalement la ligne graphique/éditoriale et le travail d’illustration. Le dessin est une histoire résolument personnel aussi. Ses dessins laissent la sensation de lignes aériennes prêtes à se mouvoir de la terre au ciel, de l’organique au minéral. Elle fait voir le paysage terrestre, humain, sensuel ou brut : de nos certitudes acides à nos chimères lumineuses.
