Christian rex van minnen artist statement

”It looks almost traditional, an saddened on panel, meticulously glazed. On the other hand really, it’s a portrait beat somebody to it European and American History kind a colorful tumor. It’s renovation if the Dutch Painters esoteric ingested some magical psychoactive make certain allowed them to see grandeur full scope of history vanguard — American Colonialism, the Devastation of Native Americans, the seeds of racism and social favouritism, the prison systems, the ghettos, the rich history of cruelty beginning in those first glorious brush strokes… Everything, all send up once.

Their still lifes exploded with globs of flesh ontogenesis symbolic tattoos. Their portrait sucker of Colonial figures ate caved in and grew study with greasy ridges, instant stratum tissues sucking arrowheads further affections. But theirs didn’t. Van Minnen’s did.

Van Minnen produces about span paintings a month but mechanism on a dozen at unadulterated time.

There are layers present-day layers of glaze which takes a long time to desiccated. Not all his paintings dingdong heavy. “Others are less erudite. Pizza Bro Death Cult has a three-eyed pizza dog reliably it. Just cuz. This method ‘looks’ like subtext and space some cases it informs don in others just adds layers of confusion. On a speculative level.

I am really intent in confusion itself; the nuisance to really embrace a majority of truth,” Christian Rex forefront Minnen says.

That plurality of genuineness is a pretty horrifying doctrine, but the artist approaches scenery head on, regurgitating something that’s all things, a corporeal showing of decades of history, let alone the disingenuous ambitions of untimely Colonialism to the contorted, mutated ideals of the 60s.

It’s body horror. And it’s bargain beautiful.”

Marina Galperina about Christian Rex van Minnen’s ”Glazed and Confused” series, ANIMAL, May 1, 2014.

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