Composite
Kempenaers, Jan
1968-
creator
artist
Humblet, Steven
contributing author
text
Photobooks
Artists' books
ne
2016
First edition
monographic
eng
72 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 31 cm + 1 photographic print (30 x 23 cm)
Jan Kempenaers has been photographing urban and natural landscapes for over two decades. For this series of images, he applies the formal language of the documentary style, with its detached viewpoint emphasising the isolation and desolation of the strange structures in the frame. This causes a heightened sense of inaccessibility in the viewer, a sense of alienation exacerbated by the alien nature of the structures themselves. What are these objects, who built them, and why? Interspersed are composite photographs Kempenaers has made by cutting details from the images and overlapping them, thereby creating darkly idiosyncratic renderings of the same subjects.
"Jan Kempenaers' photographs of nationalist sculptures and architecture are bizarre and unnerving. In his latest collaboration with Dutch publisher Roma he intersperses them with composite photographs made by cutting details from the images and overlapping them, thereby creating darkly idiosyncratic renderings of the same subjects." --from http://www.dashwoodbooks.com/ (viewed on October 14, 2016).
Includes essay "Dis/Entanglement" by Steven Humblet, pp. 68-69.
Photograph is signed and numbered by artist. 600 copies with C-print numbered 460.
Kempenaers, Jan
Public sculpture
Pictorial works
Monuments in art
N7433.4 .K46
Roma Publications 278
9789491843709
9491843702
MMX
161021
20190716143921.0
eng