June 2001

Doug Aitkin;
François Morellet;
Georg Winter

Pietro Sanguineti

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Cor Dera

 

Cor Dera
b. 1956 in Heerlen, NL, lives in Haarlem, NL

Untitled (Seals), 1995
Series 36 Work 4 Parts 36, laminated printed matter on wood, 143,2 x 572 cm

Cor Dera works with animal photographs which he takes from generally available coffee-table books. In his creative work, he starts by applying purely artistic and formal criteria: choice and arrangement are based on principal deliberations concerning the composition, colors and color accents, as well as the relationship of total form to individual picture.

Cor Dera's work focuses on the picture of nature after the genetic revolution, on the merger of nature and culture, demonstrating our endeavors to force nature in all its diversity into a scientific classification system. Cor Dera recently said that he still had to complete some 300 works to fulfill his artistic aim: then nature as an entity of individual beings will have been translated into the system of art.

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