RONMANDOS Amsterdam is excited to announce the simultaneous shows of two promising young talents, Levi van Veluw & Laetitia Gendre. We warmly welcome you to join us at the opening reception on Saturday the 1st of March from 4 to 7 pm, at which both artists will be present.LEVI VAN VELUW LANDSCAPES
Levi van Veluw's photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.
In this exposition van Veluw will showcase his latest series 'Landscapes'. This 4-piece series reinterprets the traditional landscape painting, removing plots of grass, clusters of trees, babbling brooks from their intimate 2 dimensional formats and transposing them onto the 3 dimensional contours of his own face. Thus a fresh twist is given to the obsession inherent in the romantic landscape of recreating the world and simultaneously being part of it. The romantic landscape and self-portrait genres are combined as a means of re-examination.
Besides the four landscapes, Levi van Veluw will also present a new video piece, landscape installation and works from two other series of photographs.
Since having graduated from the Artez Art School in Arnhem the Netherlands, Levi van Veluw has enjoyed a remarkable amount of success in a short period of time, with his work being showcased in several different locations across Europe and the States, earning him a number of prestigious awards that include the Photographer of the Year Award at the IPA International Photo Awards in the USA.