Pieter Jan Martyn 1986
Lives in Avelgem - Belgium. Works in Avelgem - Belgium.
Represented by:
BruthausGallery
PIETER JAN MARTYN
°1986 Kortrijk - BELGIUM
Pieter-Jan Martyn is fascinated by the dubious imagery of shared history and journalism. He is extremely fascinated by the formal language and compositions in capturing the contours of a potential historical document. There is something magical about the tactility of the weathered chosen past. There is something mysterious hidden beneath the texture of preserved history. But Martyn has also been bitten by the search for which selection of images, compositions and choices were not made in the visual reporting of a past. The themes in Pieter-Jan Martyn's oeuvre, such as the Nuremberg Process, the terror group RAF, the fire in the Innovation, the Surgery series or the Audience series, are inspired by a thorough, almost journalistic investigation of the history of what has not been shown. Martyn is concerned with the formal translation of a "pseudo" accurate reconstruction of a specific moment. The emphasis is on depicting the image gaps and image distortions as a traceless referential of an event. On the basis of photographic material, a compelling aesthetic added value is given to the painted reconstruction of the images from the past. Pieter Jan Martyn started at Bruthausgallery by committing himself to 'The Nivelles Gang', a painful, unsolved and black history of Belgium...
°1986 Kortrijk - BELGIUM
Pieter-Jan Martyn is fascinated by the dubious imagery of shared history and journalism. He is extremely fascinated by the formal language and compositions in capturing the contours of a potential historical document. There is something magical about the tactility of the weathered chosen past. There is something mysterious hidden beneath the texture of preserved history. But Martyn has also been bitten by the search for which selection of images, compositions and choices were not made in the visual reporting of a past. The themes in Pieter-Jan Martyn's oeuvre, such as the Nuremberg Process, the terror group RAF, the fire in the Innovation, the Surgery series or the Audience series, are inspired by a thorough, almost journalistic investigation of the history of what has not been shown. Martyn is concerned with the formal translation of a "pseudo" accurate reconstruction of a specific moment. The emphasis is on depicting the image gaps and image distortions as a traceless referential of an event. On the basis of photographic material, a compelling aesthetic added value is given to the painted reconstruction of the images from the past. Pieter Jan Martyn started at Bruthausgallery by committing himself to 'The Nivelles Gang', a painful, unsolved and black history of Belgium...
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