Bart Benschop

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Large photographic enlargers are a thing of the past.  They are the victims of digitalisation in photography. 
Bart Benschop reflects on this, embraces this development, but with a certain reservation.  Sticking with analogue photography and a technique of his own for taking accidental shots, the artist now has images processed in a digital lab.  The new process has enabled him to control colours more accurately, creating a limitless range of subtle variations and nuances.  Colour as a result plays a much larger part in his work.  Alongside this, Benschop¹s images have become more concrete and at the same time gloomier. 
They cannot be viewed at a glance but require sustained scrutiny from the onlooker.

Shots taken while driving are double or treble exposed by using the film several times over.  Fixed fragments of landscapes, layered by this process of exposing film, create a cinematographic experience where the viewer is taking along a road movie into landscapes of the imagination and the physical world.  In between spaces, memories from the past and ghostly recollections all inhabit this new series of panoramic images to be exhibited at MKgalerie.nl.


   
  Arches, 2005, Enduraphoto on dibond, 35 x 289 cm,   Etching, 2005, Enduraphoto on dibond, 33 x 282 cm
   
  Oil, 2005, Enduraphoto on dibond, 38,5 x 284 cm   Flats, 2005, Enduraphoto on dibond, 35 x 300 cm
   
  Moon over Marin, 2005, Enduraphoto on dibond, 39 x 317 cm   Arrow and Fence, 2004, Enduraphoto on dibond, 56 x 290 cm
 

 
  Tja, 2004, Enduraphoto on dibond, 35 x 285 cm   RoundAmsterdam, 2003, Ilfochroom-plexiglass, 30 x 242 cm
   
  Pinkframe, 2003 , Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 34x162 cm   Airplane, 2003, Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 48 x 145 cm
   
  Head and Shaft, 2003, Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 47x 170 cm   ZigZag, 2003, Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 43 x 141 cm
   
  Taal, 2003, Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 46 x 212 cm   Italian blue, 2001, Ilfochroom-plexiglass, 36 x 227 cm
   
  Trucks go round, 2001, Ilfochrome on plexiglass, 70 x 212 cm   Windmills, 2001, Ilfochroom-plexiglass, 78x214 cm