Nothing is as it seems in the deceptive photographs of Tjibbe Hooghiemstra. The photographer explores the experience of space, constantly deceiving the viewer and inviting us to see spaces in a new way.
With his camera, Hooghiemstra zooms in extremely close or out immensely far. This takes us from the unfathomable depths of the universe to extreme close-ups of our Earth. We see water, air, atmosphere, and stars.
What appears far away is actually dizzyingly close, and close-ups prove to be disorientingly distant, while seascapes resemble the cosmos. Tjibbe plays with space. He photographs photographs, prints that have been photographed again, close-ups of paintings, and thus sketches his own timeless spaces. He handles the camera similar to the way he paints, directly and impulsively.
Tjibbe Hooghiemstra (Tytsjerk, 1957) studied at the Minerva Academy in Groningen and the Sint Lucas Academy in Ghent. He works alternately in the Netherlands and Ireland. His work is exhibited worldwide in galleries from New York to Tokyo and at international art fairs such as Art Basel, Fiac Paris, and Art Forum Berlin. In addition to the Fries Museum, his work is also included in the collections of the Stedelijk and Rijksmuseum.
www.ftn-books.com has several publications on Hooghiemstra.
