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    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy
    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy
    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy
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    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy

    By Krijgsman Willem

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    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy is the book about the arts of the in Finland living Dutch Visual Artist and Interior Architect Willem Krijgsman (born in 1953, Delft). The book contains a large collection of his early artworks.
    In the form of two separate, interesting interviews, he takes the reader with him by showing his works through many fantastic colour photos and pictures. He explains his process of creation and artistic developments. He is showing us, how he goes from paper collages to assemblages, from assemblages via junk art into drawing, followed by his later discovery of clay, that developed into love for modelling clay.
    In this rich, with photographs and drawings, illustrated book Krijgsman shows his love for the arts in general. Making art, by discovering and researching art forms, is his most important motivation.
    He wants, that his book of arts is working as if being in an exhibition situation. The reader can go through different stages of his artistic creations. Explanations and names under the pictures, if so, are kept to a minimum, not to disturb the viewer’s own interpretation.
    The artist, living in Finland since 1981, has held many solo exhibitions in his home country, especially in Helsinki and Vantaa. He has also taken part in many group exhibitions and gained publicity. Though not internationally known, his wonderful artworks are very much on the level and worthwhile exploring. They show a really motivated, talented and sincere visual artist at work.
    Willem Krijgsman has published in Finnish, in 2023, the book “Fifty-Fifty” (BoD, ISBN: 978-952-80-9321-3) telling his integration process into the Finnish society via intertextual collages using e.g. paintings from Golden Age of Finnish Art.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoD - Books on Demand
    Release dateAug 12, 2024
    ISBN9789528009825
    The Play of Emotion and Fantasy
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    Krijgsman Willem

    Willem Krijgsman (born in 1953, Delft-Holland) is a professional Visual Artist and Interior Architect. Since 1981 he has been living in Finland. He has studied at the College of Art (Willem de Kooning Academy) in Rotterdam. After his studies, in 1981, he moved to Finland and has worked as an interior architect and free time artist, since 1997 as a professional visual artist. Krijgsman has held numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions, besides he has been a curator for art exhibitions. His arts contain e.g. paper collages, assemblages, junk art, drawings, colour pencil paintings and clay sculpture. Willem Krijgsman is especially known for his figurative, symbolistic, intertextual colour pencil paintings, but also for his figurative clay sculptures. Now, as a senior visual artist, he has started to look back on his artistic career and wants to show and explain his art works in wider perspective, or as he says: in book-formed exhibitions. Willem Krijgsman has published (BoD in 2023) his first book in Finnish. In the art book “Fifty-Fifty” he is telling about his integration process into the Finnish society. The book is illustrated by his intertextual colour pencil paintings, collages, using e.g. paintings from the Golden Age of Finnish Art. Willem Krijgsman’s info: https://kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/en (Artist Register – Artists’ Association of Finland)

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      Book preview

      The Play of Emotion and Fantasy - Krijgsman Willem

      Kirjan “THE PLAY OF EMOTION AND FANTASY” kansikuva

      CONTENTS

      Interview

      Interview by Lesly Trash Assemblages and paper collages

      part one

      Works in pictures

      Paper collages

      Interview

      Interview by Lesly Trash Small objects and drawings

      part two

      Works in pictures

      Small objects and drawings

      Interview

      Interview by Art Clay Modelling clay and drawing

      Works in pictures

      Echoes 2005-2008 and drawings

      Exhibition of Echoes

      Gallery AARNI

      Exhibition by three artists

      Espoo / Finland

      2008

      Works in pictures

      Echoes 2008-2010

      Exhibition of Echoes

      Gallery Duetto

      Solo Exhibition

      Helsinki / Finland

      2009

      The Requiem Choir

      Gallery Duetto

      2009

      Model of the exhibition in Gallery Duetto

      Working with a model, 1:20 scaled

      Works in pictures

      Ballads 2011-2012

      Works in pictures

      Closeups 2012-2015

      INTERMEZZO

      My love for the work of Auguste Rodin

      Drawings and one torso

      Works in pictures

      Continuing of Closeups

      Works in pictures

      Closeups

      Wall sculptures on canvas

      Exhibition of Ballads and Closeups

      and three colour paintings

      Gallery K

      Mezzo space

      Vantaa / Finland

      2016

      Model of Gallery K

      Working with a model, 1:20 scaled

      BIOGRAPHY

      EXHIBITION LIST

      VISUAL ARTISTS MENTIONED IN BOOK

      ASSEMBLAGES AND PAPER COLLAGES

      AN INTERVIEW

      by

      Lesley Trash

      part one

      An interview with Willem Krijgsman by Lesley Trash

      The Play of Emotion and Fantasy

      The first time I came in contact with the art of the Visual Artist Willem Krijgsman, living in Finland, was on the website of the Artists’ Association of Finland. I am an art historian and a senior editor of the English art magazine Behind Art. We are searching worldwide for interesting art and the story behind the art. If we find something very interesting, we try to contact the artist and ask if he or she is willing to cooperate with us. We offer an interview and a review of the artist’s art in text and pictures in our magazine.

      Back to Willem Krijgsman’s art. On his website pages of the Artists’ Association, he was showing a large collection of small objects made out of all kinds of items like: kitsch, junk, toys and waste. We immediately were interested, because these objects were so full of humour and fantasy. We agreed to make an interview with him at his atelier in the centre of Helsinki. It was a very interesting meeting, in which Willem was showing many more objects and interesting stories behind them. There were also funny and dramatic drawings from the objects he had made and a very exciting large collection of collages made out of torn magazines. Besides, his workspace was full of ‘colour pencil paintings’, as he called them, intertextual collages, he explained. But here is the interview in its full length.

      LT: is Lesley Trash

      WK: is Willem Krijgsman

      LT: Your atelier is full of wonderful, different types of art: I see sculptural objects, paper collages, trash sculptures or assemblages, bas-reliefs, colour pencil drawings etc. Are you in a way searching for an artistic direction?

      WK: Thank you for appreciating my art, Miss Trash.

      LT: Yes, I really do and, please, call me Less.

      WK: Yes, you can say, I explore many ways of making art. Or in my art there has been many different forms of expressions. You can find drawings, oil paintings, sculptures in low or high relief and objects. In the middle of the eighties, I was making abstract drawings with oil crayons in primitive way. I was also making collages out of torn magazines and forming relief sculptures and bigger objects out of trash, that I found anywhere. Later on, I created smaller objects out of junk, toys and kitsch. In the nineties my collage art, as I call it, became more connected with drawing and later on I concentrated mainly on drawing. I was referring more and more to the history of art, by that, expressing feelings and emotions in dramatic, melodramatic or humorous ways. You find that also in my assemblages and objects.

      Now, in the beginning of 2000, I am drawing intertextual collages using Finish and Dutch, so called Golden Age paintings, in which I show my integration process into the Finish society.

      Back to your question, I am just exploring different ways of making art. During some period, I’m involved in one medium and then it develops into a new one. For me, making art is like a journey through different types of art forms. All the different art forms, I have used, are serious periods of expression and they develop on into a new direction. In that way, I have been developing as a visual artist. I do not search consciously for an artistic direction. But maybe it is unconsciously searching for the right medium, with which I express myself the best.

      LT: Why did you stop making abstract art?

      WK: Well, I really liked making abstract art, but at the end, it felt like doing decorative art. Only the colours, lines and structures of the composition made it work. It was a bit like making interior design. I felt, that I wanted to create stories with my works, not only decorations. So, I just started to do something different by making paper collages, tearing interesting parts out of magazines. From these torn pieces I made pictures by gluing them in certain ways on paper. Before I noticed, they started looking like three-dimensional objects. The paper collages activated my fantasy and I imagined funny names. I really enjoyed doing it.

      LT: What about your assemblages?

      WK: Assemblages I had made already before I knew, what I was doing. As a young kid, I was making objects out of things people threw away. I was growing up in

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