herman van den boom Personal RSS Feed http://www.behance.net/vandenboom Romance is the scene of this collection of photographs. Not only in it’s absorbing drama’s but the dreams of loving as the couple whatch it in ordinary life. The light that seems everywhere to open the photograph on the promise romantic completition draws the spectator in that promise. We stand in a relation of stillness within the image, with its particular moment in desire’ process of unfolding and spreading out. This series of photographs is about ordinary moments and the things that usually go without saying. The subjects, the photographer and the spectators of the photographs are then cought in the middle of an intimite landscape in which they can be lost or found, not lost enough,or happily found. These photographs are a travel diary of an artist tracking the familiar and estranged traces that desire leaves on the landscape. The world of erotic process is thus opened to a transformative but not negative gaze. It would be overeading to say the these pictures seek something sacred in the intimite, although they do make moments at the eye of the storm in which the sublime of sex, desire and love occur. It would be underreading to name them an extreme species of the family snapshot, or serious kitch without the velvet extras. But these frames of reference are unavoidadly there putting pressure on the images, just as they mark the people in them and the spectator of them. La Fotografia Actual, Barcelona. 2005 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LAS-HUELLAS-DEL-DESEO/166006 Romance is the scene of this collection of photographs. Not only in it’s absorbing drama’s but the dreams of loving as the couple whatch it in ordinary life. The light that seems everywhere to open the photograph on the promise romantic completition draws the spectator in that promise. We stand in a relation of stillness within the image, with its particular moment in desire’ process of unfolding and spreading out. This series of photographs is about ordinary moments and the things that usually go without saying. The subjects, the photographer and the spectators of the photographs are then cought in the middle of an intimite landscape in which they can be lost or found, not lost enough,or happily found. These photographs are a travel diary of an artist tracking the familiar and estranged traces that desire leaves on the landscape. The world of erotic process is thus opened to a transformative but not negative gaze. It would be overeading to say the these pictures seek something sacred in the intimite, although they do make moments at the eye of the storm in which the sublime of sex, desire and love occur. It would be underreading to name them an extreme species of the family snapshot, or serious kitch without the velvet extras. But these frames of reference are unavoidadly there putting pressure on the images, just as they mark the people in them and the spectator of them. La Fotografia Actual, Barcelona. 2005 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/LAS-HUELLAS-DEL-DESEO/166006 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:07:37 -0600 Photographers, whether paparazzi stalking Brangelina or Edward Weston communing with nature at Point Lobos, like to imagine that they really are lone wolves. Yet for all of this pretence, photographers, like writers and critics, also a lonely seeming lot, need to show their pictures that would otherwise linger in the studio or on some hard-drive. In short, they need to network in order to exchange contacts, find jobs, arrange shows, meet collectors, make sales, and otherwise mingle. This sometimes incestuous mating game takes place around museum openings, photography festivals, and private dinners with collectors, among other venues. Herman van den Boom is a veteran of these affairs. A noted artist in his own right and one with many years on the circuit of Arles, Paris, Houston, Amsterdam, not to mention the farther flung Tampere and Lianzhou, Van den Boom was struck by the absurdity of it all, and artist that he is, he decided to make art out of the business of artists in action networking the.network. Fuelled by alcohol and high on their own self-importance, artists, critics, curators, and collectors behaving foolishly frenetically work the rooms and conspire behind flowers and curtains or, exhausted by all the effort involved, slump in saunas or desperately clutch street signs after failing to close the deal or simply too much partying. The parade of people passing before Van den Boom’s lens runs the gamut from artistes brutes to the paragons of High Art. Networking the Network is a hilarious and ironic look at the secret business that is behind the art world. It is an intimate portrait of the travelling freak show of artists, critics and collectors from an insider’s perspective. Herman van den Boom has produced the first true portrait of the art world as it really is. Bill Kouwenhoven New York 5 November 2008 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/NETWORKING-THE-NETWORK/165976 Photographers, whether paparazzi stalking Brangelina or Edward Weston communing with nature at Point Lobos, like to imagine that they really are lone wolves. Yet for all of this pretence, photographers, like writers and critics, also a lonely seeming lot, need to show their pictures that would otherwise linger in the studio or on some hard-drive. In short, they need to network in order to exchange contacts, find jobs, arrange shows, meet collectors, make sales, and otherwise mingle. This sometimes incestuous mating game takes place around museum openings, photography festivals, and private dinners with collectors, among other venues. Herman van den Boom is a veteran of these affairs. A noted artist in his own right and one with many years on the circuit of Arles, Paris, Houston, Amsterdam, not to mention the farther flung Tampere and Lianzhou, Van den Boom was struck by the absurdity of it all, and artist that he is, he decided to make art out of the business of artists in action networking the.network. Fuelled by alcohol and high on their own self-importance, artists, critics, curators, and collectors behaving foolishly frenetically work the rooms and conspire behind flowers and curtains or, exhausted by all the effort involved, slump in saunas or desperately clutch street signs after failing to close the deal or simply too much partying. The parade of people passing before Van den Boom’s lens runs the gamut from artistes brutes to the paragons of High Art. Networking the Network is a hilarious and ironic look at the secret business that is behind the art world. It is an intimate portrait of the travelling freak show of artists, critics and collectors from an insider’s perspective. Herman van den Boom has produced the first true portrait of the art world as it really is. Bill Kouwenhoven New York 5 November 2008 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/NETWORKING-THE-NETWORK/165976 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:56:37 -0600 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/BETTER-IN-TUNE/165967 http://www.behance.net/Gallery/BETTER-IN-TUNE/165967 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:40:38 -0600 The landscape changes dramatically not only through industrialisation, urbanisation, globalisation and polution but also by "recreational gardeners" who create there own fictional arcadia. While looking at these front yards and gardens it occured to me that the fragments I was photographing could be felt and experienced as a modern day Arcadia. The owners themselves undoubtably derive great pleasure from their creations, but if you put all these pieces of "Arcadia" together in your imagination on a global scale, you encounter an enormously cultivated and surreal landscape. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ARCADIA-REDESIGNED-2009/165932 The landscape changes dramatically not only through industrialisation, urbanisation, globalisation and polution but also by "recreational gardeners" who create there own fictional arcadia. While looking at these front yards and gardens it occured to me that the fragments I was photographing could be felt and experienced as a modern day Arcadia. The owners themselves undoubtably derive great pleasure from their creations, but if you put all these pieces of "Arcadia" together in your imagination on a global scale, you encounter an enormously cultivated and surreal landscape. http://www.behance.net/Gallery/ARCADIA-REDESIGNED-2009/165932 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:26:20 -0600