Rob Scholte - Bergense School, 13 dorpsgezichten - Sold

13 village views of streets named after famous artists from the Bergen School Graadt van Roggenweg, Jaap Weijandweg, Piet Boendermakerweg, Colnotweg, Harrie Kuijtenweg, JA Radeckerweg, Van Blaaderenweg, Jan Tooropweg, Leo Gestelweg, Filarskiweg, Matthieu Wiegmanweg, Tjipke Visserweg, Willem Reijersweg All pages are numbered and signed on the back.
Rob Scholte is best known for manipulating existing images and associations. The edition recalls the work of the Bergen School through an indirect image, characteristic of Scholte's work. Rob Scholte (Amsterdam, 1958) Scholte lived in Castricum, Doorn, Heiloo and Egmond aan den Hoef. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. After that he was part of the artists' collective W139, where he made his debut with Sandra Derks in 1982 with the 'masterpiece' Rom 87, a series of free-style variations on a children's coloring book. He will replace this style with meticulously painted works that he starts exhibiting in 1984 in The Living Room. Scholte's works were shown at the Documenta in 1987 and in 1990 he was allowed to furnish the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 1986 he caused a stir with a painted postcard, Utopia (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen). Pointed out that this was a quote from Manet's Olympia, Scholte responded with a painting on which the newspaper article with this criticism and image would have been copied; a literal quote from half a newspaper page. With How to Star, a solo exhibition at Boijmans Van Beuningen, paintings from 1983-1988, Scholte received both praise and criticism. In 1991 he met the model, also soap and film star, Micky Hoogendijk. She became director of his BV and on May 31, 1994 they got married in house temple the RoXY. In 1993, Scholte became a teacher at the art academy in Kassel, a job he would quit in 1999. In 1991, Rob Scholte BV won the contract for a 1200 square meter wall and ceiling painting at the Huis Ten Bosch Resort in Nagasaki, Japan. Scholte worked with a large number of assistants on the painting entitled Après nous le déluge, about the constant repetition of war in history. Its opening was supposed to take place on August 9, 1995, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, but had to be postponed due to an attack on Scholte. He arranges and places images - from the mass media, from his own extensive archive - in a new context, giving them a new meaning. One often finds contradictions and contradictions in his works that are 'overcome' in their new context. His meticulously painted works are usually produced by assistants and signed by himself. In doing so, he follows a 17th-century method of working. His working method is illustrative of postmodernism and emphasizes the permanent influx of images that surround, shape and mold us. The media are always thematic, he draws inspiration from them, criticizes their manipulation and acted as a 'media personality' himself.