Jeroen Erosie (b.1976, Netherlands) is an abstract painter.
Throughout the years, his visual language has developed into a unique blend of abstract shapes carefully distilled from gestural lettering of graffiti, pictorial quality of illustration, and reduced geometric forms of graphic design.
Jeroen says that there were two art schools in his life, equally paying respect to his graffiti background alongside Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Gesture, illegality, originality and even restraints of graffiti played a significant role in development of his artistic practice. Even more than that, a distinctly recognizable manner that we now associate with Erosie, sprang out as a reaction against graffiti dogma and ambivalence of street art.
There is a particular logic of how Erosie approaches his practice and, on a smaller scale, this logic is manifested in the way he works with sketches: “it’s really important to have it linked to what I was doing before. But also to want a change. And to allow change. And to allow failure”, the artist explains. Thus, every step is a reaction to the previous one, so that Erosie’s oeuvre could be seen as a chain of numerous attempts in the pursuit of freedom.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 INTRO
01:25 ON FREEDOM & GRAFFITI
04:11 REASON TO LOOK FOR A DIFFERENT WAY
05:52 SECOND EXCITEMENT FROM THE MAGIC OF URBAN SPACE
07:48 LIBERATION
14:16 ART PRACTICE AS A JOURNEY
16:44 CHANGE REACHED THROUGH NATURAL PROCESS
Recorded on June 2021 by MZM PROJECTS.
Supported by L'ASSOCIATION JUSTE ICI.
All images courtesy of JEROEN EROSIE.
Graphic design by DIMA MYKYTENKO.
L'association JUSTE ICI bénéficie du soutien du programme PAUSE, programme national d'accueil en urgence des scientifiques et des artistes en exil, porté par le Collège de France.
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