A tryptich presentation at Unseen.
Emile Gostelie 1957 NL
Jan Pypers 1982 BE
Tjitske Oosterholt 1991 NL
Jan Pypers, with his Hasselblad Award winning series: Diorama.
“Diorama” is about our lost connection with nature and is inspired by the old dioramas from museums.Dioramas are life-size, three-dimensional viewing boxes that show animals in their environment.
They were built with great care in natural history museums from the beginning of the 20th century to reconnect urbanized people with nature. The use of forced per- spective created incredible depth, giving the viewer the impression of being able to see for miles across a room. Smart, incredibly beautiful but above all artificial. These artificial windows on nature are not only found in museums. The old square viewing boxes now have a modern digital version. Like dioramas, social media platforms use visual elements to give us a polished view of reality.
And the talented Emile Gostelie and Tjitske Oosterholt
The mutual fascination and at the same time, the embryonic thought from which their artistic practice emerges lie in the individual elements that, when combined, form a whole: the reality or nature we experience every day. Focusing on these individual elements, the artists investigate, albeit in different ways, the multiple perspectives our reality can assume and the unpredictability of nature itself. Although the technique seems to be the same – collage – Oosterholt creates her collages individually, crafting each polaroid, while Gostelie starts with an entire photograph depicting a haystack, then fragments it into multiple parts and
assembles them in different configurations. The artistic methodologies remain congruent, yet originate from divergent points of origin.