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Piet van den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
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Piet van den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
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Piet Van Den Boog, The Scientist, 2015
Acrylic and Oil on white patinated lead, azurite and malachite deposite, iron oxide , 200 x 155 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, The Unborn (Mother and Unborn Child), 2013
Acrylic and oil on multiple sheets of white patinated lead, black patina, lead white, malachite, intestinal paper, mother of pearl , 225 x 135 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, Dorian's first Selfy, 2015
Acrylic and oil on lead, malachite, inkjet print on paper , 100 x 60 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
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Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
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Piet Van Den Boog, I Myself am Made Entirely.., 2011
Acrylic and Oil on patinated lead, green patina, iron oxide, lead white , 190 x 150 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, Derval, the girl with the pearl earring, 2014
Acrylic and Oil on black patinated lead, lead white, green and blue patina, iron oxide, mother of pearl and gold leaf , 100 x 150 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, I shut my eyes, 2010
Acrylic and oil on blackened steel, crystal sand and clay , 150 x 100 cm
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Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
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Piet Van Den Boog | The Alchemist
Curator: Yaron Haramati
“Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.” Marcel Duchamp
For his first solo show in Israel, van den Boog pushes the limits of portraiture by directly confronting emotion head-on by way of large-scale paintings. New ways of seeing, generated through a personal process, have always rewarded the viewer with new insights. Dutch painter, Piet Van Den Boog has found a new interpretation of the figure and portrait by way of an alchemic process that promotes effects of chemistry on the picture plane. Influenced by the writings of Sylvia Plath and painters like Jenny Saville, van den Boog’s point of departure is a photo reference, which he then enlarges to a monumental size. Oil and acrylic paint make up flesh tones and facial details, while abstract strokes in rust tones are chemically etched into the cold lead surfaces, becoming a powerful metaphor for the internal scars we all possess.
A modern day alchemist, van den Boog’s experiments with base metals like lead, copper, steel etc. form a grand visual allegory of personal transmutation and the quest for a cure for the human soul. It is the process that ultimately imbues the portraits with relatable human qualities. The element of technical surrender alludes to the unforeseen consequences of intimacy and the perpetual co-existence of pain and pleasure.
Van den Boog’s work is exciting and emotionally rich in that as viewers we participate in his process and feel transformed by it. He benefits from the uncontrollable nature of chemical action by way of accidents, which bring chaos to the organized mind.
VIDEO
Piet van der Boog ‘Working with Acid’
Interview by i24News
PUBLICATIONS

PIET VAN DEN BOOG | THE ALCHEMIST
Nov 2015

Piet van den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet van den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, The Scientist, 2015
Acrylic and Oil on white patinated lead, azurite and malachite deposite, iron oxide, 200 x 155 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, The Unborn (Mother and Unborn Child), 2013
Acrylic and oil on multiple sheets of white patinated lead, black patina, lead white, malachite, intestinal paper, mother of pearl, 225 x 135 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, Dorian's first Selfy, 2015
Acrylic and oil on lead, malachite, inkjet print on paper, 100 x 60 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, I Myself am Made Entirely.., 2011
Acrylic and Oil on patinated lead, green patina, iron oxide, lead white, 190 x 150 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, Derval, the girl with the pearl earring, 2014
Acrylic and Oil on black patinated lead, lead white, green and blue patina, iron oxide, mother of pearl and gold leaf, 100 x 150 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, I shut my eyes, 2010
Acrylic and oil on blackened steel, crystal sand and clay, 150 x 100 cm

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art

Piet Van Den Boog, 'The Alchemist' - Installation Shots, Nov. 2015
Zemack Contemporary Art