| Thijs Zweers (1986) graduated from the Artez art academy (Arnhem, The Netherlands) in 2010. Since then he has focused himself on a very peculiar translation of digital imagery to detailed graphite drawings. This almost anachronistic act brings about intriguing images of a reality that Zweers finds to be autonomous. While the digital world is a product of mankind, the individual now has little to no influence on its workings. He or she is subject to the laws and outward appearance of this alternate reality. The graphite drawings themselves look like elaborate studies by an internet-biologist. Supposing that everything put online stays online – and that everything online is connected to everything – one can see the digital world as an autonomous biotope. A domain in which a continual dialectic process creates a whole the individual ‘user’ only catches glimpses of. Zweers’ impressions of these weightless images historicize the digital world that is so difficult to catch in time. |
| 2006-2010
School of Fine Arts (ArtEZ) Arnhem, Netherlands 2009 Erasmus Fine Arts, University College Falmouth, United Kingdom 2002–2004 Fine Art Academy (AVKA) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Collections
Collectie Albert Heijn Kunststichting |
| Solo Exhibitions
2018 Unreal, Torch Art Gallery, Amsterdam 2016 The Land of Virtually Nothing, Torch Art Gallery, Amsterdam 2015 Waar de hand zingt, Drawing Center, Diepenheim 2012 Relics, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim |
Group Exhibitions
2021 Parallel Vienna, Galerie Tassilo Usner, Vienna, Austria 2020 10yr, Horizon Verticaal, Haarlem 2019 Unfair X Sotheby’s, Werktheater, Amsterdam 2018 Into The Wild Blue Yonder, Torch Art Gallery, Amsterdam 2017 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam 2016 Unfair X Christie’s, Christie’s, Amsterdam 2015 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam 2014 Art Rotterdam, Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam 2013 Unfair Amsterdam, Loods6, Amsterdam 2012 In Serie, Horizon Verticaal, Haarlem 2011 Standplaats Schagen, Kunsthal52, Den Helder 2010 Brachen Siedlung, Duisburg, Germany |