20 June 2008

From Gert Germeraad

Depicting criminals

Sculpture exhibition in the silon
June 28 – August 16
N E O N Vägstationen Brösarp Sweden

This exhibition is about identity. We often want to simplify identity so that it is only defined by outer appearance, clothes and style. Yet how can we judge another person based solely on appearance? By looking at the nose?

This exhibition is especially about criminal identity, how images live their own lives and influence our reactions. Behind criminal acts there may be complex pattern of cause and consequence, personal histories and psychological explanations.

The picture is never clear. History offers us a rich and complex material: Pablo Escobar in his self-declared role as a Robin Hood, financing projects for the poor in Colombia with money he earned with drugs and extortion and the almost mythical Al - Scarface - Capone in an explosive mix of alcohol, killings and Mafia romantics. A third type could be someone who just looked like a criminal, but was just a poor guy in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The exhibition "Depicting criminals" questions our perception of criminals, and our own sometimes simplistic judgements about people. Life would be simple if you could just take a look at someone's nose to know...!

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Gert Germeraad, Utrecht, The Netherlands - 1959, lives and works in Eljaröd south of Brösarp, Sweden. Educated at the Academy of fine Art, Rotterdam. He has had many exhibitions in Sweden and the Netherlands in galleries and museums. For example at Sölvesborg Konsthall, Adelsnäs Orangeri in Åtvidaberg, Galerie de Zaal, Delft and the Dutch Ambassy in Yakarta, Indonesia. He has had several public and private commissions as portraits and public sculpture. He also had grants from the Dutch Fonds BKVB (The
Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture) and Stroom Den Haag. He is represented in public and private collections in The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden. Upcoming exhibitions: Norrköping Konstforum, 2008, Sculpture park De Heemtuin, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands, 2008.

www.gertgermeraad.nl
www.neongallery.nu

PRESS IMAGES
Images can be downloaded at http://www.neongallery.nu/pressbilder_sommaren2008.zip

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Tuesday-Friday 10 am-5 pm
Saturday-Sunday 12 am-4 pm
Admission 20 SEK

N E O N
Vägstationen
277 50 Brösarp
SWEDEN
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Gert Germeraad used to live and work in The Hague.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous6/22/2008

    Ha Marisa,
    Dank voor het plaatsen op je blog.
    Met Knut gaat het goed. Er komt een tweede in augustus!

    Alles goed met jou?

    Groet,
    Gert

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