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Sebastiaan Bremer
Dutch artist Sebastiaan Bremer transforms photographs into multimedia works, dragging the images across time and away from a single frozen moment. Attentive to light and landscape, Bremer superimposes images and overlays photographic paper with graceful webs of ink, manipulating and infusing the works with his personal lexicon of text and symbols: in Everything Flows (2009), for instance, a photograph of the artist's bright-eyed father becomes an intricately patterned surface rather than simply a record of an encounter. Bremer's works have been shown at numerous public and private institutions, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Tate Modern, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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I Am New Here
The Brazilian works by Sebastiaan Bremer, included in Já Estava Assim Quando Eu Cheguei were started when he found old slides in his father-in-law’s office. They showed the Seven Falls of Guaíra, or Sete Quedas – a submerged waterfall, which was replaced by the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The only color of the slides which remained was orange, all the other layers of color of the slide emulsion having been erased by time, not unlike the waterfalls. The contradictions inherent in the dam project mirror the development of civilization, in Bremer’s view; in harnessing energy to provide for themselves and their industries, human beings take away the very nurturing qualities this earth has to offer. Thus, per Bremer, the solutions of today can become the problems of tomorrow. In his work based on these images, the artist brings the falls back to life with small marks of paint and ink, and reverses history.
Another body of work is inspired by art from the seventeenth century. Bremer started making character studies rendered by hand with ink and paint, working from portraits by Rembrandt and his peers. He admires these works primarily for the panoply of facial expressions Rembrandt captured so brilliantly and for his ability to illustrate
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