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Early works (selection)
2009 - Lummi Cemetery - loop 10'.48'', video installation, a cemetery of Native Americans
1998 - Forging Horseshoes and Shoeing Horses - eight timers, videoplayer,
tv and videotape. Each timer sets the next one every 24 hours running
for one hour. At the end of 12.557.074 years, number eight sets in
motion a how-to videotape.
1998 - Caressing A Cadaver - 160 sentences, personal observations and
proceedings in farm life. Versions in Dutch, German, English,
Spanish, Bulgarian and Macedonian
1997 - Spiderweb Balls - 9 pieces, spiderwebs, exoskeletons of spiders
and prey, barndust, collected in France and the Netherlands
1996-1998 - The Infinite Mouse Series - pictures of a dead mice
dramatized with paint - mice provided by city people harassed by mice.
Wood, cremation ashes, glass test tubes, 144 mice, each 16x20cm.
1996 - Pair of Blackbirds - ashes, glass bottle
1996-1998 and 2017 - Cremation Ashes - cremation ashes of 27 animals,
roadkill or found dead in the meadows
1986-2020 - Numerous documentary photos for e.g. De Tijd, Vrij
Nederland, De Volkskrant, Onkruid, De Kleine Aarde, De Hoefslag,
Onze Wereld. Subjects: horses, travels to India, Spain, Mali, long
stays with Roma in Romania a.o.
1987 - Ik deel haar met jou / I share her/hair with you - Hoge
Bomen Collectie, folded blue A3-paper and a lock of red human
hair). The Dutch ‘haar’ is a homonym.
1982-1990 - Numerous illustrations and cartoons for magazines.
1984-1986 - Kunst voor automobilisten / Art for Car Drivers - more
than 50 paintings on the backside of the second living wagon, i.c.w.
Mariët Meester.
1982-1983 - De gouden kooi / The Golden Cage - 7 paintings on the
inside of the first living wagon i.c.w. Mariët Meester.
1981 - Love Boxes - mail art with 25 ‘outside question - inside reply’
cigarette boxes i.c.w. Mariët Meester.
2007 - The Army of Split Souls - 7 life-size video installations
2005 - The Burden - two beamer video installation, permanently installed at Amsterdam UMC
2003-2005 - The Power of Imperfection - video installations
2001-2002 - We are Poetry - 21 shorts
2000 - 52 WEEKS - 52 shorts
1998 - Girl - installation. Maggots, cardboard, aluminium, wood and cooling device.
1999 - Man - video installation, loop 4'.30''
1998-2000 - The Spiderweb Wall - 300x200x25 cm, steel, spiders and spiderwebs, flies.
1998 - The Struggle - video installation, circular projection on a floor, loop 30 min.
1994 - Bokkezang / Bucksong - the first Dutch literary video
booktrailer, accompanying a novel written by Mariët Meester.
1996 - Digging up Coza - the artist digs up his favourite goat, video
registration 45 min.
1995 - Sleepers - 16 with paint dramatized photos of sleeping people,
each 122x81cm
1995 - Objects containing dead animals - dead animals, polyester
1993-1994 - Dead Farm Animals - 24 photos dramatized with paint of
deceased farm animals, each 122x81cm
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Early works (selection)
2009 - Lummi Cemetery - loop 10'.48'', video
installation, a cemetery of Native Americans
2007 - The Army of Split Souls - 7 life-size
video installations
2005 - The Burden - two beamer video installation,
permanently installed at Amsterdam UMC
2003-2005 - The Power of Imperfection - video
installations
2003-2004 - Screening Europe Tour - a one year
video screening tour through Europe
2001-2002 - We are Poetry - 21 shorts
2000 - 52 WEEKS - 52 shorts
1999 - Woman With Swan - C-print, 30x70cm
1999 - Man - video installation, loop 4'.30''
1998 - Girl - installation. maggots, cardboard,
aluminium, wood and cooling device
1998-2000 - The Spiderweb Wall - 300x200x25 cm,
steel, spiders and spiderwebs, flies
1998 - The Struggle - video installation,
circular projection on a floor, loop 30 min.
1998 - Forging Horseshoes and Shoeing Horses -
eight timers, videoplayer, tv and videotape. Each
timer sets the next one every 24 hours running
for one hour. At the end of 12.557.074 years,
number eight sets in motion a how-to videotape.
1998 - Caressing A Cadaver - 160
sentences, personal observations and
proceedings in farm life. Versions in Dutch,
German, English, Spanish, Bulgarian and
Macedonian
1997 - Spiderweb Balls - 9 pieces, spiderwebs,
exoskeletons of spiders and prey, barndust,
collected in France and the Netherlands
1996-1998 - The Infinite Mouse Series - pictures of a
dead mice dramatized with paint - mice provided
by city people harassed by mice. Wood, cremation
ashes, glass test tubes, 144 mice, each 16x20cm.
1996 - Pair of Blackbirds - ashes, glass bottle
1996-1998 and 2017 - Cremation Ashes -
cremation ashes of 27 animals, roadkill or found
dead in the meadows
1996 - Digging up Coza - the artist digs up his
favourite goat, video registration 45 min.
1995 - Sleepers - 16 with paint dramatized photos
of sleeping people, each 122x81cm
1995 - Objects containing dead animals - dead
animals, polyester
1993-1994 - Dead Farm Animals - 24 with
paint dramatized photos of deceased farm
animals, each 122x81cm
1994 - Bokkezang / Bucksong - the first
Dutch literary video booktrailer, accompanying a
novel written by Mariët Meester
1986-2020 - Numerous documentary photos for
e.g. De Tijd, Vrij Nederland, De Volkskrant,
Onkruid, De Kleine Aarde, De Hoefslag, Onze
Wereld. Subjects: horses, travels to India, Spain,
Mali, long stays with Roma in Romania a.o.
1987 - Ik deel haar met jou / I share her/hair with
you - Hoge Bomen Collectie, folded blue A3-paper
and a lock of red human hair). The Dutch ‘haar’ is
a homonym.
1982-1990 - Numerous illustrations and cartoons
for magazines.
1984-1986 - Kunst voor automobilisten / Art for
Car Drivers - more than 50 paintings on the
backside of the second living wagon), i.c.w. Mariët
Meester.
1982-1983 - De gouden kooi / The Golden Cage - 7
paintings on the inside of the first living wagon
i.c.w. Mariët Meester.
1981 - Love Boxes - mail art with 25 ‘outside
question - inside reply’ cigarette boxes i.c.w.
Mariët Meester.
JAAP DE RUIG
info@jaapderuig.nl