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Screen print by Rob Scholte. "Peace of Munster" (2000)
Rob Scholte does not want to be an artist who commits deeply personal expression in the isolation of his studio. In his eyes, art should convey a message. His art has the visual power of the billboard along the highway. It speaks directly, but is the opposite of superficial. His art is layered by personal interpretation, humor, intelligence and knowledge. And although his paintings give the impression that they were created spontaneously, nothing could be further from the truth.
Rob Scholte (Amsterdam, 1958)
Scholte lived in Castricum, Doorn, Heiloo and Egmond aan den Hoef. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. After that he was part of the artists' collective W139, among others, where he and Sandra Derks made their debut in 1982 with the 'masterpiece' Rom 87, a series of free-style variations on a book of children's coloring pictures. He would replace this style with meticulously painted works that he began exhibiting in 1984 at The Living Room. Works by Scholte were shown at Documenta in 1987 and in 1990 he was allowed to decorate the Dutch pavilion of the Venice Biennale. In 1986 he caused a stir with a repainted postcard, Utopia (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen). Pointing out that this was a quote from Manet's Olympia, Scholte responded with a painting on which the newspaper article with this criticism and image would have been repainted; a literal quote of half a newspaper page. With How to Star, a solo exhibition at Boijmans Van Beuningen, paintings from 1983-1988, Scholte received both praise and criticism. In 1991 he met the model, also soap and film star, Micky Hoogendijk, She became director of his BV and on May 31, 1994 they married in house temple the RoXY. In 1993, Scholte became a teacher at the Kassel Art Academy, a job he would quit in 1999. In 1991, the Rob Scholte BV won the commission for a 1,200-square-meter wall and ceiling painting at the Huis Ten Bosch Resort in Nagasaki, Japan. Scholte worked with a large number of assistants on the painting titled Après nous le déluge, about the constant repetition of war in history. Its opening was to take place on Aug. 9, 1995, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but had to be postponed because of an attack on Scholte Scholte is a sculptor. He arranges and places images - from the mass media, from his own extensive archive - in a new context, providing those images with new meaning. One often finds contradictions and oppositions in his works that are "overcome" in their new context. His meticulously painted works are usually produced by assistants and signed by himself. In doing so, he follows a 17th-century method of working. His working method is illustrative of postmodernism, emphasizing the permanent influx of images that surround, shape and mold us. Thematic are always the media, he draws inspiration from them, criticizes their manipulation and acted as a "media personality" himself.
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ConditionVery goodColorsMulti Color, Transparent, SilverMaterialPaperNumber of items1ArtistsRob ScholteOrientationLandscapeArt sizeMediumHeight63 cmWidth90 cm