Izaak Zwartjes

Izaak Zwartjes

Born in 1974, lives and works in Leiden (NL)

Installation by Izaak Zwartjes for Amsterdam Trail at Upstream Gallery, May 2017 Untitled (Swan), 2015. Swan, steel, wood, foam, jute, wax and rope. 200 x 100 x 80 cm. 'Chariot', 2013, variable media, 400 x 120 cm. As exposed during the 10 year anniversary show of Upstream Gallery in the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam 'Untitled', 2013, Installation at the Flowerfactory in Leiden in collaboration with Museum the Lakenhal. Foto: Marc de Haan 'Untitled', 2013, Installation at the Flowerfactory in Leiden in collaboration with Museum the Lakenhal. 'Basic construction III', 2013. Exhibited at the open air exhibition 'Beelden in Leiden', Hooglandse Kerkgracht. 'SA-1 Generator System Pump', 2013. Part of solo exhibition at Nest, The Hague. (Foto: Jhoeko) 'SA-1 Generator System Pump', 2013. Part of solo exhibition at Nest, The Hague. (Foto: Jhoeko) 'The Rape of Dithyrambos', 2013, mixed media, 215 x 210 x 225 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Untitled', 2013, mixed media, 105 x 95 x 230 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Untitled (Pelgrimage-Mobile)', 2011 (ungoing), carriage and video, 290 x 155 x 130 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Untitled', 2013, mixed media, 100 x 90 x 196 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Untitled', 2013, mixed media, 50 x 48 x 225 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Untitled (Skull with Horns)', 2012, mixed media, 55 x 50 x 35 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Exhibition 'Basic construction' at Odapark, Venray Installation shot exhibition 'Basic construction' at Odapark, Venray Exhibition 'Basic construction' at Odapark, Venray 'Siamese Pig', 2012, mixed media, 70 x 50 x 30 cm. 'Untitled', 2012, mixed media, 39 x 15 x 46 cm. 'Untitled (Crucifixion)', 2011, mixed media, 128 x 50 cm. 'Beast of Burden', 2011, mixed media, 180 x 120 x 150 cm. 'Untitled (Woman)', 2011, mixed media. 'Present Forever', 2012 Izaak Zwartjes in Scheltema Complex, finalist of the Hermine van Bers Beeldende Kunst Prijs 2010 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. Solo exhibition at the Cobra Museum. 'Untitled (Rudiments of Territory)', 2010, detail. Solo exhibition at the Cobra Museum. 'Untitled', 2008 'Untitled (Exodus)', 2009, detail of exhibition at the Cobra museum 'Untitled (Exodus)', 2009, detail of exhibition at the Cobra museum. 'Untitled (Bedevaartsmobiel)', 2001 - ongoing, mixed media, 290 x 155 x 120 cm. 'Untitled', 2010, detail of the exhibition 'Exodus' at the Cobra museum 'Untitled', 2010, detail of the exhibition 'Exodus' at the Cobra museum From the exhibition 'The Laboratory of Life' Detail of the exhibition 'Laboratory of Life', 2008, KABK Den Haag. Detail of the exhibition 'Laboratory of Life', 2008, KABK Den Haag.
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Izaak Zwartjes
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Biography

Izaak Zwartjes graduated from the Royal Academy of Art The Hague in 2008. In 2009 he filled the 500 m2 ground floor of the Cobra Museum for his solo show ‘Exodus’ with a monumental installation. In 2010 and 2012 he had solo shows at Upstream Gallery. He recently built a big nest at a height of 18 meters against the wall of an old factory in Leiden, in which he lived for 3 days. He also undertook several travels on a large, post apocalyptic looking self-built chariot, which he documented on video. In 2013, art space NEST in The Hague presented his solo show he had a solo show ‘SA-1 System Generator Pump’.

For Zwartjes being an artist means to establish contact with a spiritual world. There is no division between the work, the artist and reality: it is one big twilight zone. The mixture of modernity, mythology and religion in Izaak Zwartjes’ work evokes a wide range of associations. With his unworldly and primitive attitude Zwartjes holds a mirror up to our modern society.

Exhibitions

Amsterdam Trail 2017

5 May - 7 May '17

What is Waste?

8 Jan - 6 Feb '16

SA.1 Generator System Pump

8 Dec '13 - 9 Feb '14

A Decade Upstream

30 Nov - 19 Dec '13

Crossing the Threshold

29 Jan - 2 Mar '13

Schiksal der Gegenwart

22 Jun - 27 Jul '13

Rudiments of Territory

13 Mar - 1 May '10

Exodus

6 Jun - 13 Sep '09

Apocalyptic Landscapes

18 Oct - 15 Nov '08

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