Sebastiaan Bremer
This Glass To Him, The Good Spirit, Schöner Götterfunken IV, 2010, acrylic and inks on C Print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
A Loving Father Must Dwell, Schöner Götterfunken I, 2010, acrylic and inks on C Print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Flowers It Calls Forth From Their Buds, Schöner Götterfunken XVI, 2010, acrylic and inks on C Print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Whoever Has Had The Great Fortune, Schöner Götterfunken XI, 2010, acrylic and inks on C Print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
To Virtues Steep Hill, Schöner Götterfunken XV, 2010, acrylic and inks on C Print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm
Haarlems Starry Night, 2010, acrylic and inks on Gelatin Silver Print, 33 x 22.5 cm
Little Cat In The Studio, 2011, unique hand-painted chromogenic print with mixed media, 28.5 x 42.5 cm
First Second Doll, 2010, ink and acrylic on C-Print, 26.5 x 34..5 cm
Everything Flows, 2009, acrylic and inks on Gelatin Silver Print, 50.8 x 61 cm
Roots and Branches, 2010, inks on Lamda Print, 41.25 x 61 cm
About Sebastiaan Bremer
Sebastiaan Bremer, b. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1970, is renowned for transforming ordinary snapshots into grandly baroque and surreal tableaux by a careful process of retouching and enlargement. Since his first solo show, in 1994, he has exhibited in venues such as the Tate Gallery, London, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, and the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut. He has been based in the United States since 1992.
About Sebastiaan Bremer’s Process
Typically, Bremer starts by enlarging unassuming snapshots, the kind that fall out of an overflowing album or pile up in a drawer. These more or less blurred photographs show family, friends, lovers, homes, and landscapes―mementoes ranging from Bremer’s infancy to recent days. At times he overlays multiple images, other times the photographic paper, though exposed, is almost blank. In some cases he manipulates the pictures with photographic dyes before he embarks on an intellectual and emotional voyage that involves his signature process of applying thousands of tiny ink dots, which grow into delicate and fluid webs of rippling and rolling lines. (Sabine Russ, bombsite.com)
Sebastiaan Bremer at Houk Gallery
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