Rob Scholte - screen print: If this were - 2009

Large screen print by Rob Scholte. Title: If This Were. Year: 2009. Edition: HC Dimensions sheet: H121 x w80cm. Dimensions representation: H55 x W64cm. The work is signed at the bottom right by the artist. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request. After purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words, the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above cities or the beach. The work can also be sent via PostNL. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday. Robert Egbert Gerardus (Rob) Scholte (Amsterdam, June 1, 1958) is a Dutch artist. Biography Life and work until 1994 In his youth, Scholte lived in Castricum, Doorn, Heiloo and Egmond aan den Hoef. At the age of 17 he left his parental home through the attic window. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He then became part of the artists' collective W139, where he made his debut with Sandra Derks in 1982 with the 'masterpiece' Rom 87 (now in the collection of the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, on loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), a series of freestyle painted variations on a children's coloring book. He would replace this style with meticulously painted works that he started exhibiting in 1984 in the newly established gallery The Living Room in Amsterdam. In 1986 he caused a stir with the painting, Utopia (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), in which Manet's Olympia was quoted. However, he had replaced Olympia and her servant with wooden dolls. He turned out not to have invented this idea himself, but to have borrowed it from an obscure, accidentally found postcard. Scholte responded by painting the newspaper article in which he was accused of plagiarism, 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. 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 1991 he met Micky Hoogendijk with whom he started a relationship. He made her director of his company and on May 31, 1994 they got married in the RoXY house temple. Also 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. It was supposed to open on August 9, 1995, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but had to be postponed due to an attack on Scholte. From 1993 to 1999, Scholte taught at the art academy in Kassel.