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SYRIAN SKIES [ 1,000 DAYS ]

Hans Overvliet - 2013│2014

I think the kids are in trouble Do not know what all the troubles are for The National - Conversation 16 We often saw dead people from our school windows.

After a while we got used to it.

Aleppo, 05-10-‘13, 'Anan, 6 years old

About former works Hans Overvliet constructs paper collages out of existing material, taken from the mass media.

He cuts these selected images into small strips and subsequently glues them back into geometrical perfect patterns into new combinations.

Rolf Bosboom in the Provincial Zeeuwse Courant - in an article about this oeuvre: 'The paper collages force the spectator to look intensively. The collections of cut and reconstructed images result in a new image of very high density. Sometimes you experience recognition - a date taken from a newspaper, a plan and / or information material of exhibitions and museums visited by the artist - but the images themselves are cut up in such a way that any ‘explanation’ is always at great distance. (…)

Overvliet with an utmost precision fragmentizes reality. Looking from a distance, the rhythm of the lines and colors predominate. This rhythm constantly changes in relation to the position of the spectator. The more the viewer distances him or herself from the image, the more form goes over into content. The careful way the oeuvre is [re]constructed is a sign of his great devotion.’

Syrian skies - 1,000days Prints on Hahnemühle German Etching Paper, 310 g/m² Exhibitions size 122 x 173 cm.

Source Images,published in De Volkskrant, December 27 2013 Province of Idlib, August 30 2013 Binnish, Idlib, September 5 2013 Damascus, July 30 2013 Daraya, January 16 2013 Daraya, October 15 2013 Ariha, September 7 2013 Daraa, August 27 2013 Damascus, February 21 2013 Damascus, December 22 Ma’arrat al-Numan, November 15 2013 Damascus, April 302013 Yabroud, May 17 2013 Aleppo, December 9 2013 Aleppo. December 21 2013 Saraqeb, September 4 2013

Hans Overvliet www.curiositas@zeelandndet.nl

SYRIAN SKIES [ 1,000 DAYS ]

Jacob van Ruisdael (1628/29 - 1682) detail from The Windmill at Wijk Bij Duurstede c. 1670 │ 32.66 x 39.75" │ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Hans Overvliet - 2013│2014