Gerrit Cnossen
Gerrit Cnossen is a drawing artist and professional photographer. With his agricultural background, it may be logical that his creations also have a bloom and decay development.
Addressing particularly the themes of the lights, fairy tales, and abstract, his work is distinguished by a new and visionary lighting
Gerrit Cnossen is born in 1959, and he is working and living in the Netherlands. His work is present in many private collections.
Discover contemporary artworks by Gerrit Cnossen, browse recent artworks and buy online. Categories: contemporary dutch artists. Artistic domains: Drawing, Photography. Account type: Artist , member since 2018 (Country of origin Netherlands). Buy Gerrit Cnossen's latest works on Artmajeur: Discover great art by contemporary artist Gerrit Cnossen. Browse artworks, buy original art or high end prints.
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Close - ups • 37 artworks
View allFairytales • 5 artworks
View allwhere I took over the chaos informally with charcoal.
I could use this informality nicely at home
because I saw images in that collection of scratches.
My fantasy came out of the forest like fairy-like formality.
Light .. almost immaterial works. • 13 artworks
View allascend to enlightenment
until they almost dissolve into immaterialism
or spiritualization?
Photography behind GLASS • 10 artworks
View allglued,
behind glass ..
and with 10 cm passepartout
and 4 cm wide wooden frame around it
Photography on DIBOND • 13 artworks
View allPhotography on CANVAS • 17 artworks
View allOrganic abstract work • 30 artworks
View allI drew the landscape in a swinging way with charcoal,
after which I processed the compositions at home
into the result shown here.
Day work .. in addition to that night - and very light work; see there
Figurative photography • 126 artworks
View allGreen organic abstract works • 12 artworks
View allColorful abstract works. • 40 artworks
View allvery light works
and very dark works - Nocturnes -
there are these .. in addition to
the organic abstract works
that are mostly in morning - day - and evening light;
see there.
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Biography
Gerrit Cnossen is a drawing artist and professional photographer. With his agricultural background, it may be logical that his creations also have a bloom and decay development.
Addressing particularly the themes of the lights, fairy tales, and abstract, his work is distinguished by a new and visionary lighting
Gerrit Cnossen is born in 1959, and he is working and living in the Netherlands. His work is present in many private collections.
- Nationality: NETHERLANDS
- Date of birth : 1959
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Dutch Artists
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10 Friezen
Werk van 10 Friesche kunstenaars over de grens bij;
www.kuenstlerforum-jever.de/index.php?article_id=1
05-05-2019 tot 02-06-2019
Künstlerforum-Jever e.V.
Moorweg 2
Jever
Art Cards available ( 12 / 17 cm )
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Cnossens art-loving eroticism
On a rainy afternoon I meet with visual artist and language virtuoso Gerrit Cnossen in Sneek for the publication of 'Out of your roof through the cosmic ellipse around Venus', a powerful work with erotic drawings and poems. Together we dive in his collection full of fantastic combinations of text and images. It is a joy to read.
Bundle
Artist Cnossen works with a 'marriage' of drawings and poems, a gesture between image and language. In his startling collection, 36 pastel drawings or fragments illustrate more than 50 poems. Every poem is written as a metaphor, imagery with a comparison. In an unbelievable way, Gerrit knows how to describe and portray eroticism without falling into plain language. Or as he himself says: "It is an orgy of metaphors" and " Oh Superlative what I love you .. ".
...
Like a tasty one
loose cough sneeze
comes the Great Totem
who wants to go fast
entrench
in her fleet
to be so whole-hearted
get a grip
on her navy.
(From Droogh geweerth, page 16)
Gerrit explains on the basis of the title of the bundle what a woman means to him. Venus is for him the woman, and represents her beauty, which makes him go crazy. All that in a cosmic ellipse, in which the attraction of the woman is. It is not a circle but an ellipse, because a circle is stable and in an ellipse just acceleration / movement is 'that drama of attraction' .
Cnossen shows his admiration for the woman. Just like his grandfather Gerrit did. His poetry collection starts with a poem by P.J. Troelstra that his grandfather had included in one of his diaries at the beginning of 1900. His grandfather could also go from his roof to a woman.
Gerrit says about this: "I place a woman on a pedestal and decorate it to come closer to her . In her i search and find purity and beauty. "He is more than just sex, he only wants contact with her both mentally and physically.
......
You can always abuse me during the day
Defeated as the umpteenth
cigarette for hands.
Fluorescent and white adhesive tar
descend to your toes
'Your cigarette suit'
always fills up
with such a sucking mouth
in his head
To be able
to pump wet yawns up
as an oral cannula
(From Love Channel, page 34)
For the draftsman / poet, writing metaphors is quite normal. He does not do this to disguise the eroticism as I suggest, 'No, he says, I am not bothered by fear in my work, there are no ultimate blockages, I start a work without a preconceived plan. I will never start with the question beforehand: "What are we going to draw." He sees this as the same kind of threshold as asking yourself: "What are you going to be." He does not paint, but draws with pastel, because he does not lose inspiration in time for preparation of the paint. He draws directly and spontaneously.
Oeuvre
The Frisian artist has been drawing with comics since he was 12 years old. He has created an enormous body of work in the course of time. These can be found and arranged on his website . He has made hundreds of pastel drawings that he divides into different categories.
He has made 'organic abstract' works and 'reversible'. The reversible drawings are chaotic and 'informal' and usually depict human figures.
On his side standing ;
- Where the ambitious and mentally ill, and physically otherwise wounded behind the ears, the stripped Farmer mirrors himself in the shit, who also wants to take him away from confession.-
As a landscape horizontal
- Where the ambitious Farmer, who is seduced by the free-spirited economy, is not yet aware of, his so Profitable Raised ... has mixed feelings that come to light in the not entirely unambiguous stool.-
While the organic have more finished round forms, the group ' Colorful abstractions ' tends more towards cubism.
-Along with Lip-smelling Whispering Muses, The Taurus with his Horn-Pointed Look knows how to push the Sweaty Origin into himself in such a way that the resulting swirling current will take him and everything else fertile to a place where the jumping water will flow into A Sea of germinating stillness.-
Then there is the category 'Daydream photos' contains photos with poems. While the 'Night dream photos' are digitally processed photos. For the Socialist Party site he made cartoons from 2005 to 2006.
When asked what he is currently doing, he answers mysteriously with 'raising awareness'. His father died a few months ago and Gerrit is busywith going through hundreds of photos that his father has left behind.
That ties in nicely with the work he was asked to make for the exhibition in Leeuwarden about the poet Jan Slauerhoff. This poet had a difficult relationship with his father. Cnossen tells about his own father that this was the Benjamin of the family.
Only when he got a uniform he did feel someone between his dominant brothers .
He says: "My father understood me very well, but avoided me. Feeling was difficult, that was not talked about.
My father was afraid of real contact. He felt 'well in his skin' in uniform, that was only imaging . "
Exhibition Leeuwarden
Cnossen has been asked to provide work for the exhibition from 3 August to 6 October 2018 in Dorpskerk Huizum in Leeuwarden, for which other Frisian artists have also been invited.
They are inspired by the longest poem 'In Memoriam Patris' by poet Jan Slauerhoff.
https://www.dlmplus.nl/2018/01/07/cnossens-kunstminnende-erotiek/
Rob Vellekoop, January 7, 2018
EXPOSITIE SLAUERHOFF: IN MEMORIAM PATRIS VAN 4 AUG - 6 OKT 2018
Adres Dorpskerk: Huizum Dorp 67, 8934 BS Leeuwarden.
DE EXPOSITIE ‘SLAUERHOFF – IN MEMORIAM PATRIS’
10 kunstenaars uit Friesland en uit Ost-Friesland hebben zich laten inspireren door Slauerhoff en zijn gedicht In Memoriam Patris.
De kunstenaars zijn Ton Aartsen, Marije Bouman, Gerrit Cnossen, Douwe Idema, Brigitte Frehsee, Sjouke Iedema, Bartle Laverman, Wim Reimert, Baukje Scheppink, Gert Jan Slotboom en J.M.G. van Welie.
De expositie loopt van 4 augustus tot 6 oktober 2018 en is op alle zaterdagmiddagen vanaf 13:00 u. te zien.Afbeelding caption
Anual Dutch Art Fait ; ADAF Amsterdam
World Fashion Centre / Beursplaza Koningin Wilhelminaplein 13 1062 HH
De ADAF start met een VIP avond op vrijdag 12 oktober.
Tussen 17.00 en 21.00 uur kunnen de bezoekers van de VIP Preview als eersten genieten van meer dan 1.700 kunstwerken van ruim 200 kunstenaars.
Tijdens het beursweekend op zaterdag 13 en zondag 14 oktober is de beurs geopend van 11.00 tot 17.30 uur.
G.W. Cnossen (1959) .. I do not have the stated goal,
G.W. Cnossen (1959) .. I do not have the stated goal,but afterwards you can say that I am drawn ... by segmented colors and green earth landscapes.
Then it seems that I am in the growth,
the organic creations have 'stopped' ... until sundown .. so that I could also incorporate them in a more nocturne-like way ..
Dreamy ambiguity of plant and being became possible. But the dawn caused the drawings to 'illuminate' more.
She almost solved the back and afternoon light. Again in need of root, the imagination came more close to the earthly.
The chaotic was plowed for new inventions, new seeds, new 'models'. This period is indeed characterized by reversed 'models'
The reversed Fresh Vore showed figurations that were placed in an ensemble through associative texts. The first had one main role.
The latels had a collection of actors. In the next stage
the image became more spatial again. For example, a view of a countryside or urban landscape in which
dreamlike subconscious pommerants are just as important as .. .. the realistic, recognizable by the 'Grimm-ige' rural Fairy tale ..
Where the literal and figurative in a composite creation comes to full-flowering.
Where the literal and the figurative want to connect the visual to a good marriage Inspiration / Source ..
GoshI / the work looks like a voluptuous plant, I am a willing chlorophyll Sun Seeker, i am an orga (s) nism ..!
Chaos, Germs, In love with Sunlight, Backlight, Blinded by Sunlight, Faded, Destroys, Damaged, till .. Under Plowed, Under Conscious, Under Terrestrial,
The Mud that Dreams of Life and Life that Dreams of 'Rapture' Half Products of Black and White Dream Theater of Life Realism of the 'Metaphorical Realist' ?!