ED VAN DER ELSKEN – LOOK ED!
2012-10-01Annet Gelink asked the three most prominent female Dutch artists Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, and Marijke van Warmerdam to make a selection of works by Ed van der Elsken.
Dijkstra, Dumas and Van Warmerdam have each made their own selection which provide interesting insights on Van der Elsken and the three artists. Jhim Lamoree: “Ed van der Elsken’s photographs had a range of expression, and the selections made by Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Marijke van Warmerdam attest to this. Each was drawn to a different aspect of his work. They, too, observed and made choices. The connection between Ed, Marlene, Marijke and Rineke is their ability to seek out the other without losing sight of, or a sense of, themselves. They size up the world in a humane, personal manner. Their attitude is similar, but the aesthetic results of each differ entirely. The selections cause an intriguing and enigmatic doubling to occur: the show not only gives a varied portrait of Ed’s oeuvre, but also a self-portrait of the oeuvres of Marlene, Marijke en Rineke.”
Exhibition runs through till October 13th, 2012
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016 PL
Amsterdam
Netherlands
