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TOP 200 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY TO NOW
TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS
AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
| - | Pablo Picasso |
| - | Paul Cezanne |
| - | Gustav Klimt |
| - | Claude Monet |
| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
| - | Georges Braque |
| - | Wassily Kandinsky |
| - | Constantin Brancusi |
| - | Kasimir Malevich |
| - | Jasper Johns |
| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
| - | Egon Schiele |
| - | Donald Judd |
| - | Bruce Nauman |
| - | Alberto Giacometti |
| - | Salvador Dalí |
| - | Auguste Rodin |
| - | Mark Rothko |
| - | Edward Hopper |
| - | Lucian Freud |
| - | Richard Serra |
| - | Rene Magritte |
| - | David Hockney |
| - | Philip Guston |
| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
| - | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| - | Cy Twombly |
| - | Max Beckmann |
| - | Barnett Newman |
| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
| - | Roy Lichtenstein |
| - | Edvard Munch |
| - | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
| - | Jeff Koons |
| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
| - | Edouard Vuillard |
| - | Carl Andre |
| - | Juan Gris |
| - | Lucio Fontana |
| - | Franz Kline |
| - | David Smith |
| - | Joseph Beuys |
| - | Alexander Calder |
| - | Louise Bourgeois |
| - | Marc Chagall |
| - | Gerhard Richter |
| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
| - | Anselm Kiefer |
| - | Matthew Barney |
| - | George Grosz |
| - | Bernd And Hilla Becher |
| - | Sigmar Polke |
| - | Brice Marden |
| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
| - | Sol LeWitt |
| - | Chuck Close |
| - | Edward Weston |
| - | Joseph Cornell |
| - | Karel Appel |
| - | Bridget Riley |
| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
| - | Luc Tuymans |
| - | Claes Oldenburg |
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| Janwillem Wartena |
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1960 born
lives and works in Utrecht & Amsterdam - Netherlands
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| About the Artist |
In 1999, under the name ‘Meat Factory’, Jan Willem Wartena (1960) started producing art works inspired by clones and the designer organism, since when his work has evolved from abstract organic to transgenic human. In 1999 he created the artistic works New Skin, and Cherry Baby using a self-developed ‘meat paste’. Unfortunately the paste did not have the physical integrity necessary and Cherry Baby collapsed. This was researched, documented with photos and published on the Internet.
Science and gentechnology is forming a source of inspiration in his work. Wartena brings this in conjunction with unchangeable existential questions. The choice between good and evil, between developing knowledge to create or to destroy, between life and death or to let prevail social interests versus commercial.
“While science is characteristic in our distinction to other organisms, gentechnology has become the revolutionary expansion of grip on nature with which the stronger then before we place ourselves in the role of creator.”
The role which art herein is taking is not less important for Wartena.
“I certainly believe in the reflective function of art in relation to science. Heidegger wrote that the decisive confrontation with technology and science should take place in a domain that on the one hand is related to the essence of technology, and on the other differs substantially from it. This domain is art,” according to Wartena.
In some of his work Wartena manipulates natural growth processes with an almost alchemist’s hand so creating organic structures, fractals and basic forms. With these works Wartena put attention to the relation between processes of growth, form and identity.
In his works he interchange both reality and fiction, directness and reflection, or with the extrapolation of possibilities and trends. In all of his drawings, sculptures, photos and installations a subtle humorous undertone is always present.
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Nursing of the Newborn
2005 installation 100x150 |
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Installationview
Silicone clone
Bathtub and foam |
Superorganism
2005 50 x 65 |
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Quadropodus
2005 41,5 x 30 |
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Entry earth - Exit heaven
2002 60 x 84 |
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homo sapiens skatesiensis
2004 photo - mixed media 42 x 56 cm |
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x-ray - mixed media |
Lisa & Evy - Lab and Wild
2004 photo - mixed media 42 x 56 cm |
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selection from serie:
Lisa & Evy - Lab and Wild |
Lisa & Evy - Lab and Wild
2004 photo - mixed media 42 x 56 |
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selection from photoserie and video:
Lisa & Evy - Lab and Wild |
humanoid
2003 photo - mixed media - installation variable |
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| Education and biography |
1992 Autodidactic study
1991 Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
2006 Kunsteyssen -Kunstklonen - Solo Alkmaar-NL
2006 VERKUNO Noorden -Groningen NL
2005 Wagenhalle - Stuttgart - D
2004 Images of Science - Amsterdam - Solo
2004 FLOSS - Warp - Leeuwarden-NL
2003 Dutch Embassy - Brussels
2003 WALLS - Amsterdam -
2003 Moving Corpus - University Amsterdam
2002 4E Salon Utrechtse Kunstenaars - Utrecht-NL
2002 Museum H.Polak - Zutphen-NL
2002 Galeria D'art Zero - Barcelona -
2001 Vishal - Haarlem-NL
2001 City-Jam - Arnhem
2001 SBK Tramremise Amsterdam
2000 "Hazelaar" - Soest-NL
2000 Art-Industry - Amsterdam - Solo
1999- 2006 E.P. Galerie - Düsseldorf - permanent presentation
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| Future shows |
Erasmus University - Faculty Club - Rotterdam -
Land art - kasteel Doorn - nl |
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