Jan Maarten Voskuil interests me because he considers himself a "painter" but pushes himself to find further satisfaction from painting by almost escaping it with processes not traditionally associated with painting. This is something I try to do with my photography.
Quotes:
(When asked: Are you happy at the prospect of working on this practice for the foreseeable future?)That's a good question. I do see my work as a constant flow of possible solutions for artistic problems. I recently made a work called One Way of Squeezing a Rectangle Into a Corner and of course there are endless ways to squeeze a rectangle into a corner, both in size and shape. How many do I intend to execute? When do I stop? I don't know. I discussed this with my colleague and friend Jochem van der Spek who makes beautiful real time drawing machines (www.dynamica.org). He creates endless and continually changing drawings. So he doesn't have to choose. The machine simple starts making everything and never ends or concludes. Maybe the only reasonable answer to your question is that I stop when I get bored.
-Jan Maarten Voskuil in interview with HUH. Magazine
Speaking about collaboration process with Christine Rusche:
We both see our selves as pure painters and at the same time we are not able to find a satisfying solution to just paint a canvas. Somehow we have to legitimate all we do and since there is no legitimation for painting we argue it, reduce it, escape it, attack or find legitimation in the location. We both don't know what to do with colour; it's so personal, subjective and narrative. I mean it's beautiful, but anything goes.
-Jan Maarten Voskuil in interview with HUH. Magazine
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