evert bongers

series

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frozen heartbeats

The ongoing series "Frozen Heartbeats" is based on an armed robbery at Evert Bongers' home. He uses International surveillance camera images as a starting point for these works.

The chilly, rigid, and rational movies that are purely meant to capture criminal activities and other unwanted situations are frozen in time and converted into "works of art".

The need to exercise control over reality and to transform "evil" into "good" is a common thread in Evert Bongers' work.

The power of imagination is liberating and comforting.

Evert Bongers himself calls it a quest for compassion.

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Inkjet prints, framed, 21x29,7 cm, 2016

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unmasked

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"Unmasked" is based on an armed robbery at

Evert Bongers' home.

By experimenting with facial composite sketches of serial killers, he transforms these drawings into photographic abstractions, in which these killers come to life.

The abstracted persons appear to have been screened by a x-ray machine.

The lines used to reconstruct these serial killers resemble DNA strands when magnified.

They are a metaphor for the complexity of body and mind.

These abstractions are both liberating and comforting, the unmasked and reconstructed persons are exposed.

Evert Bongers himself calls it a quest for

compassion.

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C-prints, diasec, 100x100 cm, 2020

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guns

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This series is based on an armed robbery at Evert Bongers home.

By experimenting with low-resolution images, he transforms "real" weapons in an abstraction of lines, shapes and colors, in which the original source is still felt.

These abstractions are liberating, the dissolved materials recreate themselves.

Evert Bongers himself calls it a quest for compassion.

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C-prints, diasec, 20x42,75 cm, 2016

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313

 

Series "313" is inspired by frame 313 of the famous Zapruder film, which shows the fatal shot that killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas on november 22, 1963.

Evert Bongers transformed this iconic and most investigated image ever, in a series of abstract

works, in which he explored the boundaries of digital photography.

His intuitive, creative process and the surprisingly aesthetic results give him a sense of consolation in the awareness that we are mortal.

 

C-prints, diasec, 30,4x23,7 cm, 2015

 

hallucinations

 

"Hallucinations" gives us a glimpse into the mind of Evert Bongers.

He investigates an unknown and fascinating world in which reason has no role.

Bongers is searching for a pure, magical, sometimes religious imagination of the subconscious.

The works are largely determined by signs and lines arising from the spontaneous outbreak of what is going on in his mind.

The dancing camera only follows the spiritual "orders".

Wandering in the soul is an inexhaustible source for Evert Bongers.

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C-prints, diasec, 80x120 cm, 2015

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taboo

 

In "Taboo", Evert Bongers used antique bookpages, with its own traces of time and elements as the basis for his inkjet prints.

The prints depict the classic themes: innocence, religion, sexuality, and death.

The confronting images disappear in the poetry of the paper and are being transformed into acceptable memories this way.

The influence of antique paper, with its own past, is consoling and makes us think "outside the circle".

 

Unique inkjet prints, framed, 40x50 cm, 2015

 

somniorum

 

"Somniorum" is about the loneliness of childhood.

Children seem to be lost in no man's land and disappear in the poetry of the paper.

Memories fade away.

The influence of antique paper, with its own past, is consoling for Evert Bongers.

 

Unique inkjet prints, framed, 40x50 cm, 2015

 

mona lisa

 

Through intuitive experiments with the Mona Lisa, Evert Bongers tries to understand, to conjure and visualize the mystery of it.

All senses and more are on the edge during this experimental journey, but each appearance enhances the mystery.

It seems like she plays with the eagerness and desire of the photographer.

As if she is glad to escape from Da Vinci's straitjacket, as if she wants to dance on the movements of the camera and entrusts herself

to him.

This palpable intimacy is enchanting and the artist's fascination is finally rewarded.                

 

C-prints, diasec, 77x53 cm, 2012

 

celebration

 

It's 1935 when German children are celebrating the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National-Socialism in a found war documentary on the internet.

Evert Bongers used the low-resolution images of this part of the film for his "Celebration" series, in which he innocence visibly transforms into guilt, resulting in a dance of death of Hitler with his holocaust victims.

 

C-prints, dibond, 80x120 cm, 2013

 

nightscapes

 

The series "Nightscapes" is a tribute of the artist to the silence and poetry of "les paysages nocturnes".

The softness of the dark, with its deep blue tones, gives ultimate space for imagination.

We do not see what we see, but what we feel.

 

C-prints, diasec, 66,7x50 cm, 2010

 

memento mori

 

With his photoworks in "Memento Mori", Evert Bongers tries to ward off his fear of death and its

incomprehensibility, by literally halting the process of decay and disappearance, while simultaneously evoking the mysterious atmosphere of the transitional area between life and death.

The direct inspiration for the creation of these works was the terminal disease and the inevitable death of his mother.

 

Unique gelatin silver prints, framed, 40x50 cm, 1992

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folders

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Frozen Heartbeats

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Original, hand signed inkjet prints (9) on acid free van Gogh pastel paper.

Information about the artist and his work is included in the book, as well as a certificate of authenticity.

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Year

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2019

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Edition

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250

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Artist

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Evert Bongers

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Design

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Evert Bongers

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