SELECTED WORKS BY Folkert De Jong
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Folkert De Jong
The Peckhamian Mimic: "First Commandment"
2007
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones
Log approx: 90 x 530 x 105 cm Figure: 158 x 40 x 105 cm |
 
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Folkert De Jong
Seht der Mensch; The Shooting Lesson (and details)
2007
7 figures "Les Saltimbanques", 5 tree trunks. Styrofoam, pigmented Polyurethane foam.
nstallation variable approx. 800 x 800 x 300 cm |
 
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones. Overall installation.
190 x 400 x 300 cm |
 
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance - The Player (detail)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones.
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance - J.P. Coen (detail)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones.
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance - Balthazar G (detail)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones.
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance - A.J. Renders (detail)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones.
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Folkert De Jong
The Dance - Gulden (detail)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, artificial gemstones.
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Folkert De Jong
Asalto de la Diligencia (and details)
2008
Styrofoam, pigmented polyurethane foam, coloured acrylic sheets
300 x 120 x 300 cm |
 
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ARTIST INFORMATION
OTHER RESOURCES
artfacts.net
Additional images and information – Folkert de Jong
the-artists.org
Modern and contemporary artists and art - Folkert de Jong
artnet.com
Various and images - Folkert de Jong
folkertdejong.com
Artists website – links to reviews, selected works and other information about the
astridhonoldoffice.com
Representing gallery – additional images, reviews and exhibition information.
jamescohan.com
Representing gallery – links to reviews, articles, videos and upcoming events
chisenhale.org.uk
Folkert de Jongcreates chaotic figurative scenes using polyurethane foam and paint. His works convey an uncanny and dreamlike quality where the perverse collides with the familiar.
re-title.com
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce the first New York solo gallery exhibition by Dutch artist, Folkert de Jong , who reinvents monuments and classical figurative sculpture by combining fictional and factual histories into life-sized sculptural tableaux.
nytimes.com
“Folkert De Jong: Les Saltimbanques” Folkert de Jong is a young Dutch sculptor, though looking at his debut New York solo show at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea you would swear he was from Los Angeles.
hvcca.com
De Jong is one of the most innovative young sculptors today whose first museum exposure in the US was at the HVCCA in two seminal exhibitions: "Figure It Out" and "Reverence."
outsidetheivorytower.blogspot.com
Blog featuring works by Folkert de Jong - In his work, De Jong stages chaotic figurative scenes using Styrofoam and polyurethane foam. His works are often concerned with historical issues as well as current issues of the moment such as wars and the abuse of power. His works convey an uncanny and dream-like quality where the perverse often collides with the familiar.
dailyserving.com
Dutch artist Folkert de Jong is currently exhibiting in his first New York solo exhibition "Les Saltimbanques," with the James Cohan Gallery. Since attending the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam, the artist has reached international acclaim for his figurative sculptures that often depict historical scenes which are manipulated to reveal both humor and the grotesque simultaneously.
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