Le massacre des innocents, 2016, h 205 cm x w 122 cm (h 80.8 in x w 48.1 in), collage of adhesive film on drawing polyester on lightbox, Also follow Patrick Koster on Instagram.
A media image inspired me to create two art works. In 2016, I made ‘Le massacre des innocents’ (The Massacre of the Innocents). It is a recurring theme in art history that mythologically reverts to ‘The Child Murder of Bethlehem’.
I found a film footage of the ‘Trollhättan school attacker’. The 21-year-old man was dressed in the outfit of Darth Vader, a fearful and masked character from Star Wars. He was armed with a real sword, making him a symbolic Roman gladiator, a knight or Japanese samurai.
During his journey through the corridors of the school building he was filmed by closed circuit television security cameras. You could these videos on internet. Two girls saw the boy marching in disguise and thought he was on his way to a Halloween party. It was October 22, 2015. They were happily embraced with him on a selfie, to then put the photo on social media.
After the photo session the young man continued perseveringly and undisturbed with his intended path and a few minutes later, implemented his plan cold-blooded.
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Een mediabeeld zette me aan tot het maken van meerdere werken. In het jaar 2016 maakte ik naar aanleiding ervan een groot werk met de titel: ‘Le massacre des innocents’ (Het bloedbad van de onschuldigen, h 200 cm x b 116,7 cm), omdat dat vrij precies de gevolgen van de geplande actie van de jongen vertolkt. Het is een in de kunstgeschiedenis regelmatig terugkerend motief dat mythologisch teruggrijpt op ‘De Kindermoord van Bethlehem’.
Van de infanticide, die plaatsvond na de geboorte van Jezus, zijn al boekillustraties bekend uit de tiende eeuw. Veel kunstenaars waaronder Giotto di Bondone, Pieter Bruegel de Oude, Jacopo Tintoretto, Peter Paul Rubens en wat dichterbij in de tijd, Nicolas Poussin, hebben deze thematiek bestudeerd en er eigentijdse versies van geschilderd. Hoe oud en vaak afgebeeld de thematiek ook is, ze is geenszins sleets en heeft zeker niet aan zeggingskracht en verbinding met de hedendaagse realiteit ingeboet.
Manual collage and drawing on paper no.1742023, 2015, h 11.7 x w 10.9 inch, pencil, fineliner, adhesive tape, paper on paper
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I was working on this collage and then got ideas for making a bigger one square meter collage. So this would eventually become the work Shadow Flag II, series 2. I made it with my favorite material adhesive plastic film on drawing polyester. Adhesive plastic film is very translucent so I decided to make this on a handmade light box.
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Manual collage and drawing on paper no 5742023, 2020, H 11.4 X W 16.3 inch, felt pen, adhesive tape, paper on paper.
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I made this work as a study before I started the larger collage work of adhesive film on drawing polyester on a light box. That eventually became The Parable of the Soils 3, 2020, h 101.6 cm x w 152.4 cm (h 40 in x w 60 in).
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Shadoww Flag 1, series 2, 2015, h 39.4 x w 39.4 inch, collage of adhesive film on drawing polyester on lightbox
Overview of solo exhibition "The Laments of an Icarus" at Kennedy Van der Laan in Amsterdam. From the top down:
Shadow Flag 2, Shadow Flag 1, series 2 and For the Great Day, 2015
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Manual collage and drawing on paper no. 14242023, 2018, h 11.8 x w 11.7 inch,
felt pen, fineliner, pencil, adhesive tape, paper on paper
Working on a collage on light box series of five, I made this manual collage on paper as the third in the series. The collages of adhesive film on drawing polyester on light box series, entitled “Vernissage”, were included in a group exhibition of Fontana Gallery in Amsterdam at the KunstRai/Art Amsterdam art fair in the Netherlands. I have never shown these paper collages before. For this series of work, I was inspired by a poignant contemporary event: a violent disruption of the opening of an exhibition in an art gallery. My fascination is the unpredictable and sudden intense occurrence that falls outside the regular scenarios. I always disapprove of negative behavior and support good energy. The media images I use are a reflection of the times in which we live now.
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