Wim Bosch composes his pictures digitally from various photographs of his own and other illustrations, for example from home decorating magazines or from the internet. As in painting, the empty, white surface forms the point of departure for the illusion of a reality reproduced in photography consisting primarily of independent pictorial elements.
Though the individual components come together in a coherent order, the various perspectives, effects of light and shadow and the colour accentuations create an atmosphere of unreality and artificiality closely approaching photorealistic effects.
A few details – a missing shadow, breaks in perspective or spatial relations that are not completely logical – reveal the constructed nature of the pictorial context which is nonetheless sealed off and held together by a homogeneous surface as an “outer skin”.
Wim Bosch constructs interiors that with their furnishings and accessories look rather ordinary and everyday. But the items distributed in the room, a figure beyond the boundaries of the picture or abruptly cut off by them make the impression that an extraordinary event has just taken place here.
As at the scene of a crime, something that has happened seems to be concentrated here, and the viewer attempts to investigate, but without being able to find enough clues about it. However, a context of action can hardly be put together. What becomes visible is rather a structural order in the interplay of various ornamental structures, perspectival situations and pictorial analogies. The point is therefore not so much to link the pictorial worlds to an external reality as to discover relationships and contradictions within the picture.
Dr.Christoph Kivelitz (director Kunstverein Dortmund)
Lives and works in Groningen, The Netherlands
1985-1989 Academy for the Visual Arts Minerva, Groningen
1992 Royal Award for Painting
Exhibitions:
2007
MiArtfair, Milan, Italy
Galerie Gist, Beyond Photographpy, Amsterdam
Pictura, Transposed & Illuminated, Dordrecht
Artwalk Amsterdam , Uitzicht, Amsterdam
NOK, Contemporary Art from Groningen and Friesland, Leek.
Galerie Gist, Brummen.
2006
Galerie Lumas, München,"Staged", Germany
Kunstverein Dortmund,"In Flagranti", Germany
Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim. Germany
2005
Museum Van Nagsael,"Vernissage", Rotterdam. (solo)
MKgalerie, Rotterdam. (solo)
Experimental Video art exhibition,"Jianghu3", Yunan CN
Erasmus University Gallery, Rotterdam. (solo)
Galerie Gist,"Basics", Brummen.
2004
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof,"Museum for lost Evidence", Weltbekannt e.v." Germany
Hirschl Contemporary Art,"Trace", London, UK
Museum Coopmanshus,"Exit", Franeker.
KunstRai-Artfair, Amsterdam, MKgalerie.
Archipel Artspace,"Spellbound", Apeldoorn.
Rotterdam Artfair, MKgalerie (solo)
2003
Galerie Gist,"Microscopium", Brummen.
Northern Filmfestival,"DAD.", Leeuwarden.
Kontor, Raum fur Aktuelle Kunst,"Scaletti has left the building", Cologne, Germany
NP3 Artspace,"Photophuck", Groningen.
MKgalerie, Rotterdam. (solo)
2002
SYB Artspace,"Thus", Beetsterzwaag.
Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven,"Caleidoscopium" Germany