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Artist Statement:
'Everything outside is inside of me and I am totally outside myself'
I am a radical phenomenologist, a subjective terrorist.
As an artist I try to study perception and reality critically, reality which we seem to extract from our perception. I believe that creating borders eliminates the bounds with other constructions. I believe that life and existence is subjective and existential in it`s most natural form, so I have my doubts by 21st century objectivism. By the word objectivism I mean making objects out of living or non living 'things' by getting knowledge about those 'things' and separate these things from others by this knowledge.
Philosopher Merleau-Ponty said, we are not in or on the world, but we are available at the world, which means that we are a creating connection, this world we call our world is only an interpretation visualized by human words. Words which we also invented ourselves, so how true is this daily reality described by our words?
The process of creation starts from a pre- scientific point of view. Without certain knowledge that separates one aspect from the other. There is no in between 'things'. The product of creation is a temporary, ambiguous...
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Edwin Stolk Biography:
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Age
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33
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Art, Artist, philosophy, politics, phenomenology, daily life, breathing, installations, museums, galleries, new media, internet, peaceful anarchism, etc. Music: to much to tell Movies: documentaries, art movies etc.
Television: documentaries, news programs etc.
Books: Journey to the End of the Night,Louis Ferdinand Céline. Death on Credit,Louis Ferdinand Céline. Les Particules Élémentaires, Michel Houellebecq. different titles from Herman Brusselmans. Phenomenology of perception, Maurice Merleau Ponty. The Savage Mind, Claude Lévi Strauss, etc.
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Installation Indoor
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Education: Royal Academy of Art.(KABK)
2002 - 2007
The Hague, The Netherlands.
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