Izaak Zwartjes (Leiden, 1974) is a Dutch visual artist. He creates monumental sculptures and installations using decayed and deteriorating objects and materials.
Zwartjes currently resides and works in Leiden. He received his education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, graduating in 2008. For his final exhibition, Zwartjes created the installation The Laboratory Of Life, depicting a “post-apocalyptic world” where he aimed to merge science, religion, and art. Since 2008, Zwartjes’ work has been featured in multiple exhibitions, including one at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen..ftn-books.com has the NEST invitation now available.
Zwartjes’ pieces are best characterized as “environments”: a confined space where various episodes from a mythical story, conceived by the artist, unfold. He creates these installations using discarded materials collected during his wanderings through the city.
Following his graduation work The Laboratory Of Life, Zwartjes continued with the environment Exodus, exhibited at the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen in 2009. Exodus tells a “post-apocalyptic” tale of a degenerated society of cloned beings in a desolate landscape, crafted using decayed and deteriorating materials.Through this work, Zwartjes subtly hints at the absurdity and meaninglessness of existence.
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