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I am Barbie, you are Barbie, we are Barbie
Dries Ketels

22.02.17 24.03.17

Within the February 2017 ´aceNITE, titled Unstable, we have presented in the Dialogue Space the pieces developed by Dries Ketels, artist in a sub30 Residency from Belgium.

The project titled I am Barbie, you are Barbie, we are Barbie had as its first search the conjunction of female figures with Ketels’ particular watercolor work. In his previous series there is a very important first stage of study of the materials and supports to be used, making a quasi-scientific analysis of the pigments and their interactions, taking also into account the conditions of the environment, temperature, humidity, etc. Having given a twist, since his previous works start from the abstraction, he now gave rise to suggested figures through a fine observation. During his residency at ´ace, a new challenge was proposed: starting from suggestions of female portraits and then undoing them into more abstract organic figures. The result was a series of watercolors that vary in tonalities and shines, that observing them from different points offer us three-dimensional illusions and organisms.

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Dries Ketels
1990 | Belgium

 

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Artist-in-Residence International Program

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Residencies 2024-2025
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October 31st, 2024

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