Even as broken mirror, which the glass/In every fragment multiplies; and makes/ A thousand images of one that was,/The same, and still the more, the more it brakes.
Lord Byron
Boldies 1999-2023
Boldies is the title of a collaborative project by Thérèse Zoekende and Patrick Koster that resulted in a set of approximately 78 photographs.
The computer-processed portraits are cut-outs from photos in which characteristic poses of fictional/imaginary superheroes are re-enacted by them. In the photos, their heads are bald and their different expressive facial expressions mirror each other. The photos were taken in their former Bijlmer home Koningshoef 6, and can therefore be counted as work that was made in the period designated by them as ‘Bijlmer Years 1989-1997’.
Boldies (M) + Boldies (F) is the title of 2 sets of 2 books belonging together: computer printouts of photographs of their faces, each with a poem by Lord Byron, signed, the smaller version: h 14, x w 18 cm, (Amsterdam) 1999.
Set 1: book 1: Boldies (F), 17 photographs. book 2: Boldies (M), 23 photographs. Set 2: book 1: Boldies (F), 16 photographs. book 2: Boldies (M), 22 photographs.
La Fête Galante 9, Lovers in a Parkland at Sunset, 2024, h 50 x w 36 cm (h 19.8 x w 14.2 inch), analog, hand-cut collage, colored pencil, felt-tip pen, paper, print on paper . . ᕕ(⌐■_■)ᕗ ♪♬ . . Mezzetino was a comedy character, based on Harlequin. Introvert and with a melancholy air, he tunes his guitar, knowing that his serenading will mean nothing to the lovers and serve only to heighten his own sense of longing as he gazes upon them. . See also https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/ . #fete #vivre #galant #rococo #visualart #collage #guitar #lifestyle #sense #cosmopolitan #introvert #light #lightness #lightnessofbeing #lover #paper #papercut #papercraft #melancholy #theater #instacollage #contemporarycollage #cosplay #costume #vieenrose #pop #dancer #dance #stage #colors
Here you see another work from my sketchboard. In the meantime I am still working on the fascinating La Fête Galante series. In this post I focus on the dance, one of the staples of this genre.
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The painter Nicolas Lancret painted a very beautiful painting around 1730 entitled La Camargo Dancing. Nicolas Lancret was one of Antoine Watteau’s most talented followers and helped to disseminate the taste for fête-galante subjects in the eighteenth century. 🕺🏻💃 Lancret, like Watteau, was often inspired by the stage, and the female dancer depicted here is Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, a ballet star of the Paris Opéra. La Camargo is dressed in a white gown embroidered with flowers, suggesting a pastoral opera. She is gracefully poised and her partner’s gestures subtly mirror her movements. Camargo, who was immensely talented, expanded the repertoire of eighteenth-century ballet with new steps that encouraged active footwork. To facilitate her movements, she shortened her skirts and may have been one of the first dancers to wear ballet slippers.
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See also https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/
🤍 This is my sketch board. Let’s zoom in to check some studies of Mezzetino for the Fête Galante series. . Mezzetino was a comedy character, based on Harlequin but with his own distinctive costume, who was introduced for the first time by the Théâtre italien de Paris actor, Angelo Costantini. His expressive face allowed him to portray the role without a mask, a tradition kept alive by all successive Mezzetinos. That novelty attracted Watteau, who featured Mezzetino in several of his works. . See also www.patrickkoster.com | https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/fete-galante/ . #fete #vivre #galant #rococo #visualart #collage #studio #lifestyle #cosmo #cosmopolitan #sketchbook #light #lightness #lightnessofbeing #sketch #paper #papercut #papercrafts #theatre #theater #instacollage #contemporarycollage #cosplay #costume #vieenrose #pop #analog #analogcollage #handmade #color
Sower and Reaper at Rest, 2020 Anolog collage and drawing on paper No.6042023, h 11 x w 8.3 inch (h 28 x w 21,1 cm), felt pen, fineliner, adhesive tape, paper on paper From the series: On Paper, Parable of the Soils . Available € 650 Free worldwide shipping DM if you are interested . Also check my website www.patrickkoster.com for more: https://www.patrickkoster.nl/artwork/on-paper/ . #paper #collage #contemporaryart #visualart #artist #soil #colorful #draw #artgallery #available #artlover #cool #rest #sew #reaper #instaart #work #summer #easy #like #hello #artofinstagram #lovetodraw #love #smallbusiness #foryou #share #peace #myart #myartwork