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ART AND ARTISTS
CYCLICAL CHANGE, 2008 ACRYLIC ON LINEN 35.4X39.6 IN. | 90X100 CM.

WIEGEN DEN UYL
Lives and works in Kamperveen, The Netherland
https://www.wiegendenuyl.nl

Wiegen den Uyl born in 1944 in Diemen (the Netherlands) comes
from the fourth generation of basked makers. In general all
creative people are especially free thinkers. In Wiegen den Uyl’s
philosophy evolution and continuous movement play an important
role. By means of coagulation processes and by using figurative
form elements he seeks the essence of the phenomenon “genesis“
as he paints and draws. One can see his paintings as a sort of scan
recording. They form cross sections or snapshots of the process
that occupies his mind. He does not want to be too compelling
in his figuration. The forms can be regarded as living creatures,
but he leaves open the question whether these are animalistic or
human. In other words: grasping the elusive.

Today, in contemporary art, the tragic sedimentation of signs,
words, objects, its addition to something that is totally contrary
to what it really is and being less, is due to the fact that art
seems to become a perfect surrogate of fiction, an analogical
simulation of imitation. Rather than conceiving forms and images,
we presumptuously give form to ideas!, we communicate a
sense or a meaning, without having previously understood its
content, or, worse still, without having previously singled it out.
Within this progressive exhalation of the artifice, concepts are
deprived from their substantial dynamically, consequently and
inevitably producing, an affected effect, rather than the necessary
debates and participation. What should evolve will subsequently
devolve. Art is changing its own identity: it is becoming a way of
a conceptual communication that just produces effect however,
requesting and soliciting an effort of acknowledgment that is
the exact contrary to the deceitful appearance of its supposed
“truths”. This, at the same time, creates difficulties for the
artists as well as for the creative management, and definitely
creates difficulties for the fruition of shown art works in galleries,
museums or alternative spaces.
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