Spaces fascinate Desiree de Baar. These can be lived-in rooms in a house or building, but also specific, tough, masculine rooms such as a prison cell or an observation post. She wants to make these spaces her own. She does this by exaggerating some parts, details so ordinary they escape the notice of others, or by displacing the rooms to a gallery or museum where she transforms their character. Thereby she creates alienation. The viewer has to backtrack. His assumptions are thrown to the wind. His faded imagination is stirred. (Rob Perree)
“A bathtub made out of wool. Stop socks, applied on the wall. Soft materials mending cracks. Embroided architectural designs, resulting in a stitched loo. My attention is drawn by de Baars ‘behangwerken’ (wallpaper-works). Rooms are dressed up with beautifully torn wallpaper. What the artist performs here, is creating intimacy, orchester decay, while leaning on natural patterns. She creates abandonment that is immediately autonomized. Just like in her other works she creates a beautiful poetry, of a constructed fragile environment.” (Ruth Loos)
The media Desiree de Baar uses are textile, wallpaper, embroidery, knitting and felt scalemodels
“A bathtub made out of wool. Stop socks, applied on the wall. Soft materials mending cracks. Embroided architectural designs, resulting in a stitched loo. My attention is drawn by de Baars ‘behangwerken’ (wallpaper-works). Rooms are dressed up with beautifully torn wallpaper. What the artist performs here, is creating intimacy, orchester decay, while leaning on natural patterns. She creates abandonment that is immediately autonomized. Just like in her other works she creates a beautiful poetry, of a constructed fragile environment.” (Ruth Loos)
The media Desiree de Baar uses are textile, wallpaper, embroidery, knitting and felt scalemodels
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Spaces fascinate Desiree de Baar. These can be lived-in rooms in a house or building, but also specific, tough, masculine rooms such as a prison cell or an observation post. She wants to make these spaces her own. She does this by exaggerating some parts, details so ordinary they escape the notice of others, or by displacing the rooms to a gallery or museum where she transforms their character. Thereby she creates alienation. The viewer has to backtrack. His assumptions are thrown to the wind. His faded imagination is stirred. (Rob Perree)
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“A bathtub made out of wool. Stop socks, applied on the wall. Soft materials mending cracks. Embroided architectural designs, resulting in a stitched loo. My attention is drawn by de Baars ‘behangwerken’ (wallpaper-works). Rooms are dressed up with beautifully torn wallpaper. What the artist performs here, is creating intimacy, orchester decay, while leaning on natural patterns. She creates abandonment that is immediately autonomized. Just like in her other works she creates a beautiful poetry, of a constructed fragile environment.” (Ruth Loos)
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2019 Gewoon Bijzonder, 38cc, Delft
2017 Neem de tijd, De Meerse, Hoofddorp
2016 RAM- (solo)
2015 Thuis, PARK, Tilburg
2014 Huizenzee#2, Witteveen, Amsterdam
2013 Art Rotterdam solo- RAM-
Stedelijk museum Kampen - Koornmarktspoort
Museum Ferencvaros – Budapest
2012 Homeground, deWillem3, Vlissingen
Aanwinst - Kunstcollectie Hogeschool Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
2011 Touched Space, Full House als ruimtelijk schetsboek, Cae- suur, Middelburg (solo)
RAM@studio, Rotterdam
2010 Museumnacht Delft, id11, Delft
Knitting & Stitchingshow, Londen (UK)
Papierbiennale, CODA, Apeldoorn
Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz (Pl)
Observatiepost, Art Rotterdam (solo)
2009 Knitted Worlds, Audax Textielmuseum, Tilburg
Out of the Box, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
Art Festival Nepal, Nepal, Kathmandu
2019 Gewoon Bijzonder, 38cc, Delft
2017 Neem de tijd, De Meerse, Hoofddorp
2016 RAM- (solo)
2015 Thuis, PARK, Tilburg
2014 Huizenzee#2, Witteveen, Amsterdam
2013 Art Rotterdam solo- RAM-
Stedelijk museum Kampen - Koornmarktspoort
Museum Ferencvaros – Budapest
2012 Homeground, deWillem3, Vlissingen
Aanwinst - Kunstcollectie Hogeschool Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
2011 Touched Space, Full House als ruimtelijk schetsboek, Cae- suur, Middelburg (solo)
RAM@studio, Rotterdam
2010 Museumnacht Delft, id11, Delft
Knitting & Stitchingshow, Londen (UK)
Papierbiennale, CODA, Apeldoorn
Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz (Pl)
Observatiepost, Art Rotterdam (solo)
2009 Knitted Worlds, Audax Textielmuseum, Tilburg
Out of the Box, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
Art Festival Nepal, Nepal, Kathmandu
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