SET::SOLID | Creative Image Lab
Under the name SET::SOLID, Martijn van der Blom and Roy Scholten present their work in the shop window of the Creative Image Lab. The Creative Image Lab is a pop-up location of the Graphic Atelier Hilversum. About 40 artists make work at the Graphic Atelier. A number of them also provide courses, workshops, and exhibitions for anyone who would like to get acquainted with traditional printing and photography. Graphic Atelier Hilversum manages and operates a large and diverse collection of graphic heritage. The Atelier is first and foremost a workshop. So no museum setup for this heritage, but made and maintained operational by the members. Heritage in action!
Martijn van der Blom
Martijn van der Blom (1973) is a painter and graphic artist. After a teacher training course in Zwolle, he goes to the art academy HKA in Arnhem. He has lived and worked in Hilversum since 2002. His graphic work was shown in Galerie de Paraplu with the exhibition 'Caelum Ex Arte', in Deventer and in Sidac Studio Leiden he showed great seductive paintings. Besides being a visual artist, Martijn is attached to the Graphic Atelier Hilversum as an art educator. Recently he’s also a culture coach. Martijn mainly works with series in combined graphic techniques. In all the different techniques he uses, the question is: 'How do you imagine the state of constant change? Martijn: "I'm always experimenting with different materials and techniques. In lego printing I discovered surprising effects when printing copies over each other the 'lego sets' I make".
Roy Scholten
Roy Scholten is a visual artist and information architect. Since 1996 he lives and works in Hilversum. In the workshops of Graphic Atelier Hilversum, he has been researching and making graphic art since 2009. Monoprints, etchings, and printing are the main techniques in which he works. With the most important question 'How can a new whole emerge from the merging of multiple image sources?' In 2018, Graphic Atelier Hilversum celebrated its 50th anniversary. That is the reason for the 50 Birds project. A self-made assignment in which Roy Scholten investigates in-depth shaping with Lego settings. Fifty times puzzling, stilting, and producing on the way to a thousand prints. The bird prints shown are part of an ongoing study of the underlying connection of things. Graphic techniques give room for the unexpected, from the chemical processes on the etching plate, compressing various collage material to printing in mirror image.
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