Louise Bourgeois
Portrait Louise Bourgeois
by Robert
Mapplethorpe
1982, printed 1991
photograph, gelatine silver print on paper
37,5 x 37,4 cm
Louise Bourgeois - the photo of Robert Mapplethorpe really tells best why I
admire her. Her life and work are interwoven, she is the work and the work is
her. But of course it is actually a portrait, which again is in line with my
work.
Anet van de Elzen, 2014
The work she produces
does not stand for Anet van de Elzen. ‘It won't give you a glimpse of the
identity of the artist', says one of the authors of this book, Brian Catling.
The work stands for the viewer. There is nothing in between, not even Anet van
de Elzen. In fact she goes one step further: she dissolves in her work. For her
it is simply the natural thing to do. Everything Anet van de Elzen is not in
daily life, she is in her work. ‘What it is not is an everyday thing'. You will
recognize it as how you, the onlooker, experience her work. It is not an
experience that can be shared with others; you can talk about it, perhaps, but
you cannot share the other's feelings. Whatever you see has a different meaning
than what another sees in it. You need to look for the significance of this
work in yourself, not in the artist. When she talks about it, she talks about
the manifestation of the image and how it came into being, about the physical
form it has taken, but not about the effect it produces.
Alex de Vries, part of his text 'The inner plumb line' in Un beso al cielo, retrospective catalogue of Anet van de Elzen 2004
Alex de Vries, part of his text 'The inner plumb line' in Un beso al cielo, retrospective catalogue of Anet van de Elzen 2004
Anet van de Elzen
Untitled
2012
B
& W photograph, gelatine silver print
110 x 75 cm 
Anet van de Elzen
Taste - One of five
senses
Performance
at Fierce Festival in Birmingham
2013
photo
by Nils Kenninck
Anet van de Elzen (NL)
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From
Echo the Now
2014
