Barney de Krijger - Lithograph, untitled

Artist: Barney de Krijger, Born 1943 in Breda. Lives and works in The Hague (1997-2015). Qualifications: collagist, graphic artist, installation artist, media artist, painter, draftsman. Active period: 1980-2015. Source: RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History.
My life as an artist spans a period of almost thirty-five years. On this website I present work from 1980 to the most recent works, which mainly consist of installations and site-specific works.
The structure and context reveal a labyrinth of layers.
Due to ambiguity and diversity, there seems to be no coherent line, but appearances can be deceptive.
After a certain period of switching between a specific series of interdisciplinary works, I start again to explore new challenges ('after six months I got bored'; Francis Picabia).
I'm not interested in a method of making art, or in repeating myself and getting lost in a system.
The flow of outside influences, art as an experiment, cause and effect: I create my own playground in which the outcomes are not predetermined and surprise myself.
In the later works, the idiom of recycling, slow analogue media (cinematography, photography, stereo photography) and their various processes are the main focus in drawings, objects and installations. They can be seen as opposed to today's attitude that what was supposed to be new and innovative yesterday, tomorrow becomes nostalgia or waste and can simply be thrown away.
Everything has to be fast, fast and fast again, new images have to make way for the next Hype-O-Crises.
I'm getting slower and slower, but I'm moving steadily.
This frame of reference of chains and links reflects and winds like a biographical thread through the context of the works.