Ronny Delrue / Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

Ohne Titel

1952

pencil

18,8 x 14,8 cm

signed and dated on reverse

Joseph Beuys

Waking Up Scared in the Night (Man in Grave)

1962

oil, gold paint, light writing paper

21,6 x 14,9 cm

 

 

When I was a student at the K.A.S.K. in Ghent, the confrontation with the work of Joseph Beuys was a revelation.

A stroll through Joseph Beuys’ multifaceted oeuvre made me think about his vision of life, his attitude as an artist, his sources of inspiration, art education, art, the art world, sculptures, drawings, etc.

The freedom of his drawings fascinated me: the image and the medium on which he worked. The registrations that he made on a blackboard – during his performances/lectures –  inspired me.

To me, diary entries are drawings of my thoughts. They form a breeding ground from which new images can emerge and grow. Like an archivist, they store my ideas. Like an archaeologist, I can go in search of frozen moments: reflections on my life and world events.

 

Ronny Delrue, 8.2.2021

Ronny Delrue

The Maharjan Caste

2019

fragments of photographs and tikkas

300 x 300 cm

collection S.M.A.K. Ghent

Ronny Delrue (BE)

Sculptures of stones, Monday 11.1.2021, 20:10

2021

mixed media on paper

42 x 29,7 cm

www.ronnydelrue.be

rk

 

Marenne Welten / Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus

A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx

N.Y. 1970

photograph

 

 

At the same time, they will find expression through some image that seems to have nothing to do with them-i.e. where you can deal with them because they are disguised. So your attempts to express the feeling of an experience directly, in the terms of the experience, will be blocked, false, cramped etc, and yet if at the time you wrote a story about witches & demons, or mechanical dogs, it would be full of wild feelings & you would feel the release. The emotions of a real situation are shy, but if they can find a mask they are shameless exhibitionists. (....) A feeling is always looking for a metaphor of itself in which it can reveal itself unrecognised.

 

from: Letters of Ted Hughes, to his daughter Frieda Hughes, February 12, 1995

Marenne Welten (NL)

Adolescent

from the series The Idea of a Kitchen

2020

40 x 35 cm

oil on linen

www.marennewelten.com 

rk