In his art Mike Ottink researches our perception and experiences in a playful way. Intuitively he works towards a visual language in which the translation from one sensory discipline to another is central. His current paintings developed from his graphical drawings of musical scores. The paintings are autonomous artworks, relating to his ‘ephemeral’ installations and performances of sound and moving imagery. They are an alternative to sound pictures or video recordings that in Ottink's opinion corrupt the moment of performance.
His work resonates with the ideas of David Bohm about ‘Quantum coherence’: “we live within a holistic medium in which everything coexists. The so-called ‘Implicate order’”. In strive to push the limits of our perception Ottink makes his own drawing and painting tools. In cooperation with Brian McKenna he’s creating an own set of instruments to make audiovisual performances and installations (VHSUHF). He searches for a way to make ecstasy experienceable so as to express the invisible and inaudible.
His work resonates with the ideas of David Bohm about ‘Quantum coherence’: “we live within a holistic medium in which everything coexists. The so-called ‘Implicate order’”. In strive to push the limits of our perception Ottink makes his own drawing and painting tools. In cooperation with Brian McKenna he’s creating an own set of instruments to make audiovisual performances and installations (VHSUHF). He searches for a way to make ecstasy experienceable so as to express the invisible and inaudible.
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Data Flood Prospector 2020 - Mike Ottink
"Data Flood Prospector" is a work that is part of a series of works that deal with "information" as the essential building block in our experience of reality, rather than particles or matter. In short, is our reality material or immaterial?
The sculpture mirrors and records, like a transmitter and receiver. It spreads a gestalt, a fragmented overall picture where the whole is more than the sum of its constituent parts. It resonates with how we as feeling-organisms unconsciously create a predictable and coherent reality. Sensory stimuli are interpreted bio-algorithmically, resulting in an awareness of "physical" reality. Perhaps this physical "reality" was just as digital as the recent data revolution.
Ottink sees this series of works as creating islands of meaning in a flood of accidental data.
Video duo Duo exhibition Diederick van Kleef:
Abstract Realism or Algorithmic Magic @Frank Taal Galerie
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Sonic Boom
Ggggggggggggrrrrrrrsssssssssssss tap BOEM, the installation "Entropic low density CMBR generator" by Mike Ottink loads and discharges. While walking around the Frank Taal gallery, this is my background noise, the echo of its emergence. Work by Mike Ottink hangs next to the work of Ties Ten Bosch. Just as the vibrations of sound, voltage, a magnetic field are transformed by an oscilloscope into a visible vibration, Ottink transforms them into a painting. What do I see when I look at a painting, a drawing by Mike Ottink? Is there a converter in my brain that allows me to transform Mike Ottink's work into a sound, a vibration of the sky? As if I am staring into the universe with my telescope and registering Mike Ottink's galaxy and observing his vibrations, his explosions, implosions ... Am I coming back to his big bang?
John van Tiggelen
Frank Taal; Mike Ottink – Implicate Order
How often have I seen them in the last few years; abstract paintings, often based on a grid in some shades of gray and on the other hand some color with, if possible, a fluorine color. I could fill a separate blog with it. The boundary between a new image and a meaningless aesthetic is very small in this niche. After all, if you only have to deal with a kind of composition (the only thing you can do is choose an optical center of gravity) and colors you will be ready quickly and where does aesthetics distinguish itself from the other (content, engagement, craftsmanship)? ).
Whether Mike Ottink has content, commitment or a traditional approach, the work cannot be ignored. But something is very subtly different from what you see with many painters. Despite the large gesture, his method is also very precise. The choices for colors are based on effect at first glance. But if you look closely you can see that they remain very precise in relation to each other. Even though the black is so over-present, they remain white and the colors radiate. As a result, the works not only continue to require attention, but you can also continue to look at it.
Niek Hendrix
VHSUHF, collaborator
"Don't take shit from anybody, always stand your ground."
Mike Ottink has never actually said this to me, at least, not in so many words, but something about the way he works – his general approach to life, music, art, etc. seem to say this all the time.
His work is oozing with both raw-talent and ridiculously well cultivated skills, however, these attributes are guided by an overriding commitment to the pure foundations of what is truly important to art, life & music: the inspired execution, the punk-rock ethic, the urgency of expression.
I've known Mike since 2006, and since then he's been a great friend, an awesome collaborator, and a genuinely respectable standup citizen of the universe. He's never actually kicked my ass, but I totally know he could.
Brian D. McKenna
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2019
'The Frankie Choice #2' group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'Yes We're open 2019' summer group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'Architecture of Art', group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'The Frankies Choice#1', group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
Gallery Viewer 'Online Drawing' solo exhibition, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'VHSUHF Noise Improv' Sotu festival/radio patapoe, Occii, with Brian D. McKenna, Amsterdam
'Artiet Amicitae', Salon 2019
2018
'Maydays' at The Warp, Noise Performances, with Andre Avelas & Brian Mckenna, De Kunstkapel, Amsterdam
'Nonwovens' duo performance, with Andre Avelas, Occii/Radio Patapoe, Amsterdam.
2017
‘Analytic Overlay’ solo show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
(the show also contained a performance and mixed media installation by VHSUHF)
‘Magic party discoteque’, Audio-performance, vhsuhf, Parking Lot#3 pre-release, Occii Amsterdam .
2016
’Preconscious Processing’ Amsterdam Drawing art fair, solo at Frank Taal galery booth, sept 2016
‘Welcome to the superdrone and the oscillating big band’ VHSUHF +GJ Prins, Mark Bain Andre Avelas, Occii Amsterdam,
2015
-Amusing ourselves to death’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam
- ‘Your call is very important to us’ Parking Lot Presents, 3 hour radio show hosted by Brian D. McKenna, Mark Bain, Mike Ottink, Red light radio Amsterdam.
- ‘Parking Lot’ Artist-Magazine edition#1, curated by Katerina Karamigianni.
contribution, ‘Notes and quotes on the fabric of reality’ and noise performance(VHSUHF), Paradiso Amsterdam.
- ‘Reverse Causality’ duo show (with Ties Ten Bosch), Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
2014
- ‘Entropy and the Grid,’ group show, Non Fiction, Amsterdam.
- ‘The great last minute art fair, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘ABBA-art books by artists’ curated by Sodom&Gomorrah, Vondelbunker, Amsterdam.
- ‘Figure That’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘Kopstukken’ group show, Het huis met de hoofden, Amsterdam.
- ‘Connected 010-020’ group show, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam.
2013
- ‘Small Works’ group show, RAM-Foundation.
- ‘Implicate Order’ solo show, galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam.
- ‘Flamingos and Hedgehogs’ group show, by Collectief Ondergrond, Amsterdam.
-‘Time to recollect’ string resonance performance, ‘vhsuhf’ Stadthausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munster.
2012
- ‘You Killed the Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt... bleibt...’ new improvised noise-audio to Wilhelm Hein’s film, (with John Dykeman) Sly Propotter (Lost Property), Amsterdam.
- ‘Figure This’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘Under the Weather’, ‘routinely risking destruction for the sake of narrow gains’ audio installation, Bunker-NDSM-werf, Amsterdam.
- ‘Remote Resistance’ electro-acoustic noise performance ‘Museum Nacht 2012’ (with Brian McKenna and Andre Avelas) Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
2011
- ‘Attraction of the Opposites’ groupshow, curated by Kiki Petratou, Cucosa, Rotterdam.
- ‘Thuis’ group show at Frank Taal’s home domain, during Art Rotterdam.
- ‘Nestwerk’ group show, curated by Jabu Arnell, Rooftop Kraaienest, Amsterdam..
- ‘Noise Spectra’, ‘Alchemic conceptual diy strings’ electro-accoustic audiovisual performance, Das Spectrum, Utrecht.
2010
- ‘Lucky Corner’ Zoete-Broodjes presents Never-Everland, audio-sculpture, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam.
- ‘Psychodelicatessen’, two hour electro-acoustic, VHSUHF, live noise-radio set, Radio Patapoe.
2009
- ‘Kamer/Room#1’, interactive audio-visual installation, Zoete-Broodjes, My Friends no2, Amsterdam.
- ‘Der Golem’, Salon Unmuted nr07, New Sound to Silent Films, ‘Der Golem wie er in die welt kam’ (with Seamus Cater) Goethe-Institute Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
- ‘Loud and excessive Noise’, electro-acousic noise performance, The Beehive Experiment/OT301, Amsterdam.
2008
- ‘Canadia: Land of Myth and Media’, electroacoustic performance after drawn score based on group of seven Canadian landscape painters (with Brian McKenna, Seamus Cater) Mediamatic-PostCS, Amsterdam..
- ‘Notenkraker’ improvised noise performance, Hallo Gallo, OCCII, Amsterdam.
- ‘MAVO’ Zoete-Broodjes presents, group show, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
- ‘Post Digital Festival’ electro-acoustic audio-visual performance, DNKAmsterdam/Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.
- ‘Tuning#3’ electro-acoustic audio-visual performance, TRY Tone, Zaal 100, Amsterdam.
2007
- ‘Tuning#1’ audio-visual performance, Mobile-Institute Noailles, Brussels, Belgium.
- ‘Tuning#2’ audiovisual performance, DNK-Amsterdam, OT301 Amsterdam.
'The Frankie Choice #2' group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'Yes We're open 2019' summer group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'Architecture of Art', group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'The Frankies Choice#1', group show, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
Gallery Viewer 'Online Drawing' solo exhibition, Galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam
'VHSUHF Noise Improv' Sotu festival/radio patapoe, Occii, with Brian D. McKenna, Amsterdam
'Artiet Amicitae', Salon 2019
2018
'Maydays' at The Warp, Noise Performances, with Andre Avelas & Brian Mckenna, De Kunstkapel, Amsterdam
'Nonwovens' duo performance, with Andre Avelas, Occii/Radio Patapoe, Amsterdam.
2017
‘Analytic Overlay’ solo show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
(the show also contained a performance and mixed media installation by VHSUHF)
‘Magic party discoteque’, Audio-performance, vhsuhf, Parking Lot#3 pre-release, Occii Amsterdam .
2016
’Preconscious Processing’ Amsterdam Drawing art fair, solo at Frank Taal galery booth, sept 2016
‘Welcome to the superdrone and the oscillating big band’ VHSUHF +GJ Prins, Mark Bain Andre Avelas, Occii Amsterdam,
2015
-Amusing ourselves to death’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam
- ‘Your call is very important to us’ Parking Lot Presents, 3 hour radio show hosted by Brian D. McKenna, Mark Bain, Mike Ottink, Red light radio Amsterdam.
- ‘Parking Lot’ Artist-Magazine edition#1, curated by Katerina Karamigianni.
contribution, ‘Notes and quotes on the fabric of reality’ and noise performance(VHSUHF), Paradiso Amsterdam.
- ‘Reverse Causality’ duo show (with Ties Ten Bosch), Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
2014
- ‘Entropy and the Grid,’ group show, Non Fiction, Amsterdam.
- ‘The great last minute art fair, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘ABBA-art books by artists’ curated by Sodom&Gomorrah, Vondelbunker, Amsterdam.
- ‘Figure That’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘Kopstukken’ group show, Het huis met de hoofden, Amsterdam.
- ‘Connected 010-020’ group show, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam.
2013
- ‘Small Works’ group show, RAM-Foundation.
- ‘Implicate Order’ solo show, galerie Frank Taal Rotterdam.
- ‘Flamingos and Hedgehogs’ group show, by Collectief Ondergrond, Amsterdam.
-‘Time to recollect’ string resonance performance, ‘vhsuhf’ Stadthausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munster.
2012
- ‘You Killed the Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt... bleibt...’ new improvised noise-audio to Wilhelm Hein’s film, (with John Dykeman) Sly Propotter (Lost Property), Amsterdam.
- ‘Figure This’ group show, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam.
- ‘Under the Weather’, ‘routinely risking destruction for the sake of narrow gains’ audio installation, Bunker-NDSM-werf, Amsterdam.
- ‘Remote Resistance’ electro-acoustic noise performance ‘Museum Nacht 2012’ (with Brian McKenna and Andre Avelas) Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
2011
- ‘Attraction of the Opposites’ groupshow, curated by Kiki Petratou, Cucosa, Rotterdam.
- ‘Thuis’ group show at Frank Taal’s home domain, during Art Rotterdam.
- ‘Nestwerk’ group show, curated by Jabu Arnell, Rooftop Kraaienest, Amsterdam..
- ‘Noise Spectra’, ‘Alchemic conceptual diy strings’ electro-accoustic audiovisual performance, Das Spectrum, Utrecht.
2010
- ‘Lucky Corner’ Zoete-Broodjes presents Never-Everland, audio-sculpture, Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam.
- ‘Psychodelicatessen’, two hour electro-acoustic, VHSUHF, live noise-radio set, Radio Patapoe.
2009
- ‘Kamer/Room#1’, interactive audio-visual installation, Zoete-Broodjes, My Friends no2, Amsterdam.
- ‘Der Golem’, Salon Unmuted nr07, New Sound to Silent Films, ‘Der Golem wie er in die welt kam’ (with Seamus Cater) Goethe-Institute Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
- ‘Loud and excessive Noise’, electro-acousic noise performance, The Beehive Experiment/OT301, Amsterdam.
2008
- ‘Canadia: Land of Myth and Media’, electroacoustic performance after drawn score based on group of seven Canadian landscape painters (with Brian McKenna, Seamus Cater) Mediamatic-PostCS, Amsterdam..
- ‘Notenkraker’ improvised noise performance, Hallo Gallo, OCCII, Amsterdam.
- ‘MAVO’ Zoete-Broodjes presents, group show, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
- ‘Post Digital Festival’ electro-acoustic audio-visual performance, DNKAmsterdam/Smart Project Space, Amsterdam.
- ‘Tuning#3’ electro-acoustic audio-visual performance, TRY Tone, Zaal 100, Amsterdam.
2007
- ‘Tuning#1’ audio-visual performance, Mobile-Institute Noailles, Brussels, Belgium.
- ‘Tuning#2’ audiovisual performance, DNK-Amsterdam, OT301 Amsterdam.
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