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Ron Weijers
Pièce Unique series
Vatican transparancy
mixed media object
30x40x7 cm
2017
 M u t a t i o n & Tra n s f o r m a t i o n
Ron Weijers
dening and redening the meanings of the process

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 Mutation and Transformation
dening and redening the meanings of the process

The geological era we are living in, recently was formally designated as
the Anthropocene (International Geological Congress 2016). Together
with this designation, we as humanity, nally received the well deserved
recognition for the tremendous footprint we are leaving behind on the
environment as well as the consequences of for instance and amongst
others, plastic pollution, nuclear accidents and tests as well as mineral
and gas extractions. The twentieth century industrial revolution and the
foundation of neoliberal societies, could be pointed out as the root
cause of the effects on the current environmental situation. Recent
history demonstrates that the greatest threat to the current generation
could be pinpointed down onto our technological development.

Many people associate environmentalism with gloom-and-doom

predictions about the planet. While climate change is a serious issue,
many artists, architects and other designers are also working on smaller
scale green projects that both effect the environment and cause change
by sparking discussion and reection. While the actual direct impact of
any given artwork or design may be small the cumulative result of their
efforts is palpable and grows bigger with each creative and sustainable
design or art project. Mutation & transformation as a concept, is an
obvious commentary on consumerism and waste, a theme that is not
previous page new. We've all heard that "one man's trash is another mans treasure".
Ron Weijers That saying takes on a new meaning when we view the world through the
enVisual Dialogue series
Living on the edge eyes of the artist. The essence at the heart of the mutation &
mixed media on wooden panel
35x35x5.5 cm
transformation series can just as easily cut both ways: Is trash turned
2015 into art still worthless? Does it become art because the artist deems it so?
The concept of mutation & transformation could be described as a multi-
dimensional transformation of perspective and forms of change with
particular relevance to post-modern culture manifesting as a form of
deconstruction. Actually this is something that could be said of all
current expressions of art, where borrowing form and manipulating, is
integral to the very concept. The mutation & transformation works
explore shape-shifting and shocking alteration, intended to provoke and
to stimulate dialogue. It seems that everyday objects are transformed
into recognizable, but uncomfortable abstracted and altered, versions
of themselves.

The inspiration for the mutation & transformation body of works has
been retrieved from the international geopolitical and religious chaos
and the newsreel manipulation of this information towards the
inhabitants of this world as well as from the reections and reactions
from the surrounding habitat on these issues. The redirection and
transformation of this so called reality information in a more objective above
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manner could be positioned as a general subject and mission within enVisual Dialogue
these works. This is an ongoing process and the Mutation & Transfor- Cubistics
project development
mation works are led and catalogued within a variety of series like studio overview
EnVisual Dialogue, Sensititivity, Radical Pacism, as well as multiple 2015

subdivision series attending specic issues like for instance the Holy Crap next page
objects, the All-tar-Ego installation object, Elite Sapiens series, Ron Weijers
enVisual Dialogue series
Headlines project, the Consumer Goods - Red Meat and Smokers Delight Steampunk Cubistics
series and the redrum ARN project, reecting on the mass shootings mixed media object
30x30x30 cm
within the USA and the position of the NRA. Reshaping, reconstructing, 2015
destroying and rebuilding, repositioning, Rebirth and more of these
words, would t seamless on these processes. Its a process of recon-
struction of thoughts and opinions, generating alternate views or visions
on the issues manifesting inside his mind and soul.

The Radical Pacism project has been developed in order to reect on

the aversion or antipathy to the use of violence in any form for any
purpose. As a conscientious objector, who refuses to ght in any war for
moral reasons, Weijers takes active steps to undermine the principal of
war within these works and promotes permanent and universal peace.
History lessons learned us that important thinkers like the Russian writer
Leo Tolstoy, the political and spiritual leader of India, Mahatma Gandhi
and the Baptist minister, Martin Luther King, amongst others, contri-
buted to pacist ideology and inspired movements for civil rights and
freedom worldwide with their efforts to promote the ideal of peaceable
arbitration in the affairs of nations and the creation of an international
institution to achieve that. above
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enVisual Dialogue
Reviewing a worldwide climate of inaming violence and it's obvious Holy Crap III
mixed media object
consequences, laid-back absorbed from a cosy armchair as presented by 60x30x25 cm
a large variety of conveniently censored news-broadcasts, Weijers 2015

managed to construct a very individual concept and style that is trade- next page
marking the Radical Pacism series of works. His visualization and his Ron Weijers
enVisual Dialogue series
philosophy on the Radical Pacism concept, can be enigmatic in parts. Holy Crap II
mixed media object
Quite often they are deliberately dark and dazzling at the same time and 70x35x25 cm
mostly contain a highly potent mixture of symbolism that in his opinion 2015
works as an immersion booster. Weijers seems to integrate historical,
political and religious content as effortlessly into his works as walking a
very ne semiotic and semantic line alongside a kind of experimental
abstract poetry of the moment and he is able to bestow a certain kind of
aura on his works. His goal is to transfer his views and thoughts to the
public and to stimulate an open dialogue and discussion related to the
Radical Pacism concept and works.

Within the Holy Crap series, all assemblages are made of discarded goods
found in the trash. The works are beautifully constructed with care,
even if a closer look reveals its low-cost origins. Some of the objects
where once so shiny, new and easy to acquire, and yet at the same time,
so persistent and disruptive. There’s a deant duality of form and
materials at play here. Many of the works within this series are intricate
and almost delicate and one could review them as a series objects
expressing the suggestion to take a stand and face the reality and
responsibility in life, guiding deeper into a moral message on a more above
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personal and individual level and interacting on this point with the enVisual Dialogue
conscious of the viewer. A mirror called self-reection if one would want. detail - Holy Crap III
mixed media object
By painting over the objects variety of collage constructions and under 60x30x25 cm
layers partly with lucent acrylic white Weijers emphasizes the sug- 2015

gestive character of this under-layer but simultaneously unveils the next page
hollow promise which lurks behind the pretty surface. Diversion methods Ron Weijers
enVisual Dialogue series
as those from a stage magician or illusionist, direct the public attention Holy Crap I
mixed media object
to a particular statement or point, while in the mean time the real deal is 75x35x27 cm
out in the open but ignored. On the one hand, the works within this series 2015
are nearly all beautifully executed and visually stimulating. On the other
hand, an undercurrent of environmentalist self-awareness undercuts
subtler points the artist could add to the conversation.

Using both satire and social engagement, Weijers created an artistic

body of work through his earlier series of mixed media works such as for
instance the Covert Ops series (2014) and the Pulp Vision series (2014).
Within the more recent developed Pièce Unique assemblages Weijers
critically reects, hones and satirizes the political and religious
headlines of today, while speculating on making those issues more
tangible to a wider audience. Assemblages like 'Coup de Grâce'
reecting on the aftermath of the 2016 coup attempt and the role of
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as President of Turkey and 'Souvenir from
Fukushima' reecting on the aftermath of the nuclear disaster at the
Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture, initiated primari-
ly by a tsunami following the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011.
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As part of the Radical Pacism project, Weijers developed the 2016 Pièce Unique series
installation object All-tar-Ego as a stylized altar or shrine shaped object the Timewriter
mixed media object
introduced as an All-Religion-Worship-Shrine. The central concept and 30x40x7 cm
motive behind the development of the All-tar-Ego installation, puts the 2017

spotlight on his conceptual and factual attempt to open up discussion next page
and stimulate dialogue on the diversities and co-excistance of all Ron Weijers
Pièce Unique series
specic deities or the religious persona one wishes to identify with for Souvenir from Fukushima
mixed media object
reasons of spiritual growth in relation with their social tolerance. The 30x40x7 cm
development of time-sharing worship space over the development of 2017
above
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Pièce Unique series
Coup de Grâce
mixed media object
30x40x7 cm
2017

below
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Pièce Unique series
curating the Viewmaster
mixed media object
30x40x7 cm
2017
specic religion related shrines, churches, mosques, altars, chapels
could positively inuence the inter-religious relations within a divided
world. The All-tar Ego object is introduced as a sacred dwelling, an
all/religion meeting/place for humanity to rediscover its originally
shared mystic body.

Elite Sapiens, another subdivision of the Sensitivity series has been

developed as a persiage on Dutch Golden Age portrait paintings of the
mercantile class as produced by most of the Dutch master painters in the
17th century. These portraits were amongst the most popular
commissions executed in those days. A synchronized persiage revival of
those museum worthy Golden Age portraits from the upper class society,
wearing their distinct ruff collars made from lace as they were
commissioned by anyone who could afford them. Weijers offered his
audience to acquire their own personal 2018 Golden Age persiage
mixed media version.
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Weijers, is one of a generation of artists, tackling a large variety of Sensitivity series
subjects and addressing the signicant shifts in paradigms of existence Elite Sapiens I, II, III, IV
mixed media on Fabriano paper
that the collide of culture, nature and technology brings forward. 30x40 cm - framed 40x50 cm
Centered around three modes of alteration: Mutation, Transformation 2017

and Metamorphosis. His work researches into questions like how next page
movements towards hybridization can free us from the tyranny of Ron Weijers
Radical Pacism
anthropocentricism and assist in the development of a brighter future. All-tar Ego installation
mixed media construction
Weijers explores the ideas of transformation and contradiction. The 100x65x65 cm - stand excluded
process of making the work is fundamental to developing a visual 2016
language through which he can communicate the feeling of experience
to the viewer. His works dene and redene the meanings of process and
transformation. Bringing elements of chaos and dissonance into a state
of harmony, each work matures into a fully realized presence.

The multi-disciplinary artist Ron Weijers comments on our everyday

(sur)realities while stimulating dialogue and discussion on social and
geopolitical issues of our time. In his work he considers the daily absurd -
larger than life – (im)possibilities of this world by visualizing the essence,
catching the heart of the issue at hand. Within the whole array of
different media and ways or approaches to artistic visualization like
above
music, lm, photography, drawing, painting, collage and assemblage, Ron Weijers
one can sense a special harmony between the expressed and produced, Pièce Unique
Birthland Scape II
between the personal and populist, the traditional and modern, the mixed media on cardboard
premeditated and intuitive, but also between the physically perceived 53x82 cm
2017
and spiritually sensed. In a continuous need to disconnect from and to
question the existing on the one hand and to discover new perspectives last page
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on the other, Weijers is one of those artists constantly questioning the Pièce Unique
techniques they use, their meanings, their goals, all the while perfectly Family Affairs
mixed media on wooden panel
aware they shall never be any denite answer and that their work is 100x100x5.5 cm
meant to remain empirical. He’s not an abstract painter using guration 2017

but a gurative painter who is producing abstraction. next page

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Pièce Unique
From the moment Weijers initiates the development of a new concept Family Affairs - details
mixed media on wooden panel
and project, the rst steps he will undertake would be to explore the 100x100x5.5 cm
concept on it's values of transformation and contradiction. The process 2017
of creating a new series of work is fundamental to developing a visual
language through which he can communicate the feeling of experiencing
the concept towards the spectator. His works dene and redene the
meanings of process and transformation. Bringing elements of chaos and
dissonance into a state of harmony, each work matures into a fully
realized presence. Processing preliminary studies and sketches in
general will precede the nal execution of his basic concept for new
works. In the early stages of concept development he will furthermore
scout for suitable materials and inventory in order to be able to actually
execute and develop the project without interruptions. Sometimes he
will develop a new project over a period of one or two years before the
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actual studio process and production will start. As his work could be Ron Weijers
categorized as mixed media works and assemblages, almost continuous- Sensitivity series
Shadow Walkers I - detail
ly he is researching and scouting to develop his pretty extended and well mixed media on wooden panel
organized archive of undened objects and other quirky stuff and 122x122x5.5 cm
2016
materials.
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During the process of making his works, he de-structs, de-activates, re- Sensitivity series
constructs and re-activates his materials and handles his work to that of Shadow Walkers I
mixed media on wooden panel
building a relationship: a series of attempts at intimacy with the work, of 122x122x5.5 cm
fallen expectations, of failures and nally, of surrender. It is in the 2016

suspended spaces between the swaying of depicted guration and last page
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abstraction, that these worlds take shape. His work acts as a rhythm of Pièce Unique
color, of possibility, of realization and as a sorting structure through MH17
mixed media on wooden panel
which he generates harmonies within the chaos around him. He 80x70x5.5 cm
translates his creativity and visions into multi-layered works of art that 2017
reect a characteristic abstract language of signs and shapes. Within his
works he intends to reveal a deeper meaning and reects his views on
contemporary issues. By reaching a state of liberation from existing
patterns, the interplay of lines is dominated by the metamorphosis
which conceals the evaluation of the work from the source. He tends to
stimulate the spectator's fantasy and awareness by the intuitive and
specic combination of color, material and shape, thus seducing the
spectator towards an alternative view on this world. For all of the above
reasons, he's actually completely satised with his processes and the
techniques involved.
above
His calligraphically elaborated, uid, rened, mature and determined Ron Weijers
line winds to end up forming an originally modied structure. Figures Radical Pacism series (10)
redrum ARN series
and elements are thus rendered in their natural state, one belonging to mixed media on paper
the other with consistent symbolism that allow the viewer a ready grasp 30x40 cm
2017
of their message quality and orientation. Thereby inviting viewers to
consume individual components for detail and to bring them together in last page
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relation so that a comprehension of the overall image is portrayed. Radical Pacism series (10)
Complementing the subject matter is a specic color palette that redrum ARN series - detail
mixed media on paper
effectively stimulates and suggests the desired mood. Collectively his 30x40 cm
compositions manifest color, shape, material and line into a seductive 2017

fantasy of an alternate worldview. next page

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Sensitivity series
Any kind of collage would function as a basic ingredient for the Kokoschka and Munch unplugged
mixed media on paper
development of this body of work. The word Collage originally came 27x17,5 cm
from the Greek word ’Kolla’ (to glue) and more recently from the French 2017
word ‘Coller’. Accordingly, the practice of collage can be dated as far back
as the origin of parchment and paper itself. Citing testament, It was
certainly practiced during the 12th Century by Chinese calligraphers
whilst in the process of creating scrolls, probably as a means of covering
mistakes rather than for decorative reasons. It was much later when
Picasso and Braque reintroduced collage as a visual means in its own right
during the new age of the early 20th Century.

In pictorial form the use of collage by Picasso and Braque created a sense
of the break down of perspective, in favor of two dimensional decoration.
In practical terms either the painted word or newsprint were placed onto
above
the picture surface where the adherence of the oil paint secured place- Ron Weijers
ment of the printed matter as collage. In terms of the history of ne art Sensitivity series (5)
Previously Medicated
painting, this was radical. It heralded the breaking of new ground in mixed media on paper
artistic expression at the time and continues to inuence artists to the 30x40 cm
2016
present day.
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At around the same time and as a protest to the First World War, other Sensitivity series
sections of the European Avant-garde were experimenting with collage for Retrospectator I (4)
mixed media on paper
totally different reasons. Formed in Zurich before spreading across Europe, 30x40 cm
then eventually to New York, Dada or Dadaism saw collage as expressing the 2018

rejection of logic, reason and aestheticism associated with that time. All next page
popular aspects of logic and reason were seen as traits embedded within Ron Weijers
Covert Ops series
Capitalist society and deemed as nonsense and a product of propaganda. Life 014
mixed media on paper
This for them was the basis behind the war and therefore deemed worthy of 35x45 cm
contempt through pictorial language seen as denitive anti art. 2014
For his participation within the Art/X/Toyama 2018 exhibition in Japan,
Weijers especially developed a series of mutation & transformation
works reecting on the moments leading up to changes that occur in
politics, in DNA, in climate, in economy, in religion and many more
afliated issues. Sometimes they’re brief, other times they’re long
processes. In science, they’re the movement from one state of matter to
another. In nature, they’re the graduation from one stage in a life cycle
to a different phase. Mutation & Transformation, as a basic concept and
it's possibilities to relate to contemporary art processes, has been
primary researched, probed and introduced curated by Weijers for the
10dence gallery 'Metamorphosis' - contemporary transitions exhibition at
Hof van Ryhove in Ghent, Belgium early 2018. Metamorphosis, above
transformation, genetical and psychological manipulation, nuclear Ron Weijers
Mutation & Transformation series
accidents, mutations and the consequenses, Monsanto Roundup, Twisted Minds
gentech, global warming and even the effects of robotics on mankind, mixed media on paper
40x30 cm
are just some of the keywords and issues that triggered Weijers in the 2018
development of this concept.
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For several years now, Weijers added his artistic and organizational focus EnVisual Dialogue series
mixed media on paper
and involvement to an international operating art community and 4x 65x45 cm
network, called GAP (Global Art Project) as an inspiring asset to his art 2016

practice. GAP is an international network of mixed media artists who next page
collaborate, research, develop, inspire, tease, trigger, communicate Ron Weijers
Mutation & Transformation series
and exhibit together. One of the most intriguing aspects he became Mutation & Transformation
mixed media on 8 panels
confronted by within his collaboration with GAP would be his 160x80 cm (8x 40x40 cm)
involvement within the frag collaboration process. Mixed-media works 2018
derived from the exchange between members of GAP, relinquishing above
Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
responsibility or ownership going beyond the original intention of an GAP frag collaborations
mixed media on paper
image or idea broken down into fragments (frags) resulting in a 40x30 cm
deconstruction, a re-ordering of the visual universe into new ways of 2018
seeing. frags or the fragments, the raw materials that might become last page - top left and right
elements of mixed-media collages or paintings... torn found papers, Mutation & Transformation series
Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
billboard tearings, fabric, found shopping lists, photos and negatives, GAP frag collaborations
discarded canvas and throw-aways that are given new life by another mixed media on paper
30x40 cm
artist who incorporates these raw materials into something new; a 2017
pretty intriguing way to colaborate via the mail and internet as well as
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in-person. There are so many lessons an artist can learn from a process Mutation & Transformation series
like the GAP frag collaboration project. Among the Mutation & Twisted Minds
Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
Transformation works on display at the Art/X/Toyama 2018 exhibition GAP frag collaborations
mixed media on paper
Weijers included works tting this description as an example. Twisted 30x40 cm
Minds I&II are frag collaboration works developed by Weijers using frags 2017
from Carl Heyward, the USA based artist and founder of the Global Art last page - below right
Project (GAP) art community. Mutation & Transformation series
Twisted Minds
Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward-Heather Wilcoxon
Global Art Project GAP - an international mixed-media collaborative GAP frag collaborations
mixed media on paper
collective, promoting the creative intelligence of the global arts 30x40 cm
community toward the necessarily collaborative future. 2017

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If two people are working in harmony on a project then a third mind will Ron Weijers
Sensitivity series
spontaneously be generated in which the participants are able to draw experiment 12 001
from the knowledge and inspiration of each other through the third mixed media on paper
30x40 cm
mind. 2017
Originally Carl Heyward (San Francisco, California, USA) and Lorna Crane
(New South Wales, Australia) began a friendship and correspondence via
Heyward's KNEE(jerk) Fragmentation (mail art) Project in 2011 which
consists of a one-for-one exchange of post card sized art works made
exclusively for the project that has attracted over 500 artist-
participants and produced over 3000 individual art works. The idea of
fragmentation is central to his aesthetic mission in that the pieces of a
culture, the debris, the archaeological products of waste and discard
give evidence of culturally assigned value and worth; of conscious and
sublimated preoccupations of contemporary culture and that their
combination through collage, assemblage and other art methods allows
a reading of place and time that includes and transcends these
elements. Heyward is currently considering museums, galleries and above
Gregory J Rose-Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
archives to donate part of this collection and is preparing traveling GAP frag collaborations
exhibitions. He and Crane developed a dialog in the course of this mixed media on paper
45x35 cm
project recognizing the resonance of their personal imagery and 2017
founded Zimbabwe (two-step) to encourage their own practice as a
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collaborative device, each marking a canvas or surface and sending Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
intact or as a fragment to the other shortly after launching KNEE(jerk). In GAP frag collaborations
mixed media on paper
the course of these electric endeavors, both artists have exhibited in 30x40 cm
their respective countries as well as having participated in international 2017

shows. In expanding their inclusion of other artists in the afore next page
GAP frag collaborations
mentioned and similar projects, Heyward and Crane added painter Joan GAP DADA collab mixed media quilt
Stennick from San Francisco, USA, Akiko Suzuki, an award winning compiled by AKiko Suzuki AI
for San Francisco International Art Fair
contemporary quilt maker from Osaka, Japan, the hugely popular self- 1500x200 cm
taught Vered Gersztenkorn from Tel Aviv, Israel and Chaewon Laura Oh 2016
from Seoul, Korea, completing the Global Art Project in November 2013.
Their work reects individual, personal and global concerns by virtue of
intention. They are creating and exhibiting work that allows the freedom
of expression by the very opportunity to communicate beyond language
and culture with diverse artists form all over the world while remaining
open to the opportunities of the moment accessed through this
circumstance in a settings such as Mazatlan, Mexico, Marin County, San
Francisco and Benicia, California as well as Venice, Lecce and Treviso,
Italy, sites of choice for workshops, demonstrations, workshops and
studio environments. GAP artists are linked by activity in a mixed-media
art practice, which may be reduced to working with the materials at
hand and has antecedents in collage, assemblage, found-object and above
related practice. Akiko Suzuki-Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
GAP frag collaborations
Shopping with Usagi in hell
GAP (Global Art Project) a group of international artists working in mixed media on paper
110x70 cm
various media, promoting collaboration, experimentation and mutual 2017
development of art practice so far organized meetings and exhibitions in
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Lecce, Italy, Mazatlan, Mexico at Museo de Arte de Mazatlan, Marin Ron Weijers-Akiko Suzuki
MOCA, the Arsenal in Benicia, California, Tonio Jazz Festival, and Ca' GAP frag collaborations
mixed media on paper
Zanardi in Venice, Italy, at Gallery Cittadino and Fondo Verri augmented 30x40 cm
by intensive private mixed-media workshops at Monna Lisa studios in 2017

Lecce, Italy, followed by collaborative studio practice. GAP is an next page

international, multi-cultural, multi-national, pan-ethnic conglomerate. GAP projects
DaDa SFIAF - GAP 2016
The diverse group of painters, mixed-media artists, textile, photo and San Francisco International Art Fair
mixed media on paper
collage practitioners share a common interest in what they term 3x 50x60 cm
Fragmentation: the taking of disparate elements (Frags) not ordinarily 2016
associated with art practice and combining them with creative passion,
inventive ingenuity and above all, a belief in the democratization of the
art process from inception to execution to presentation to acquisition.
GAP champions collaborative activity as a vehicle for stimulation and
enhanced creative discovery having experienced the rewards of group
interaction and the illuminating effect in enhancing personal practice.
Having corresponded for a number of years via electronic social media,
the nascent GAP members initiated exchanges of shards of paper, fabric,
photos, found objects and whatever else caught their fancy and built,
initially depending upon the vagaries of international postal systems,
vibrant surprising collages, paintings and constructions reecting the above
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international avor of the gathered, exchanged, rotated and DaDa revisited I & II
deconstructed elements; the sensibility and selection of the artists, one DaDa SFIAF - GAP 2016
San Francisco International Art Fair
adding a frag here ,another a mark there, in an adding and subtraction, mixed media on wooden panels
expansion and reduction of aesthetic impulses in exercises that 60x45 cm
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produced works on fabric, paper and canvas in the spirit of FLUXUS,
COBRA and Exquisite Corpse, perhaps the spiritual antecedents of GAP last page
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activity. GAP was invited for additional residencies in Chicago and Sensitivity series
Mumbai and frequenctly returnes to Italy with workshops and exhibitions Black Currant
mixed media on paper
at sites including Gallery Cittadino, Association Fondo Verri and Monna 30x40 cm
Lisa Studios, curated by Monica Lisi and Mario Catalano. More recent 2017

exhibitions and workshops took place in Mazatlan, Mexico at Baupres next page
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Gallery amongst other. Radical Pacism series
Sculls (12)
mixed media on paper
GAP/frag project :frags: the fragments, the raw materials that might 30x30 cm
become elements of mixed-media collages or paintings, torn found 2016
papers, billboard tearings, fabric, found shopping lists, photos and
negatives, discarded canvas and throw-aways that are given new life by
another artist who incorporates these raw materials into something
new; a way to collaborate via the mail and internet as well as in-
person... mixed-media work derived from the exchange between
members of Global Art Project; relinquishing responsibility or ownership
going beyond the original intention of an image or idea broken down into
fragments (frags) resulting in a deconstruction, a re-ordering of the
visual universe into new ways of seeing...one of the most signicant
examples of using frags is the giant Dada quilt GAP created assembled by
Akiko Suzuki in Osaka and San Francisco for the SF International Arts
Festival titled The Mystery of Love, Anger and Delusion (soap-bubbles), a
large format (quilt) work derived from over 2000 frags from the above
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international membership. TV Eyes I
the next generation
mixed media on paper
GAP no/MIND are to be self-portraits but can also include art work, 30x40 cm
paintings or drawings done by yourself or found. Thousand yard stare, 2016
meditative, how do you look when you awaken? Ego-less, not pretty, the last page
moment before thinking kicks in... no/MIND is the state of creativity that Ron Weijers
Small man´s future
does not rely on the mind for direction, but is an integration of body- mixed media installation
mind-spirit...inspiration, perhaps, being non-judgmental, non-critical, 125x55x60 cm (stand excluded)
2017
being spontaneous, etc. Perhaps Zen, open mind, a place where real
creativity can begin. It is a challenge for most of us to "get there", being next page
Ron Weijers-Carl Heyward
conditioned to be analytical creatures, constantly judging and GAP collaboration - Lecce
mixed media on paper
comparing, mostly ourselves and/or our value as artists or human 60x70
beings. This is non-productive in my view and can be dispelled with the 2016
understanding that the best strategy for making, completing and being
embraced by the creative practice is to view: Creation (making),
Analyzing as two different processes... do not confuse them though
they are interchangeable as the act of art making continues along its
various stages and the role of the artist shifts from non-critical observer
of self and materials, to one who enacts physically, etc.

12 Tone Suite is a collaboration between GAP members Carl Heyward and

Akiko Suzuki reecting their unique working style and selection of
materials and motifs. This work reects investigations into the
emotional ebb and ow of musicality nuanced by improvisational
sensibilities, responses to gestural impulses and interpretations of above
pathways intuited or unconsciously designed without a predetermined Gregory J Rose-Ron Weijers-N Masani Landfair
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destination or aesthetic outcome; a journey mapped as the road is mixed media on paper
discovered with a willingness to risk loss of bearings only to arrive at 40x50 cm
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ground new, yet familiar. The association of this collaborative piece with
the concept of Schoenberg’s 12 Tone Scale compositional technique is a last page
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mirror for us that simply states that the notes in a piece need be sounded EnVisual Dialogue series
equally throughout a work and that there be no particular emphasis of Blue Lagoon
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one note or sound, in this case, color, shape, material or gesture, over 4x 64x54 cm
another. In a collaborative effort an additional element of openness, 2016

trust, patience, lack of ownership and communication (sometimes silent next page
acquiescence) is necessary. These elements apply across the board no Carl Heyward-Akiko Suzuki
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matter what media is being employed, that and a mutual appreciation of 12 Tone Suite
mixed media on paper
discovering what can arise anew from a situation where expectation and 12x 50x65
“control” are dismissed, or at least lessened and devalued. Along the 2017
way are twists and turns creating doubt and anxiety, perhaps, with an
equal emergence of awe and wonder at dramatic outcomes; sight of new
vistas and reinterpretation of markings transformed into new visual
possibilities overlaid with variations of theme, tempo, complexity and
color as if a musical composition whose structure is but a framework, a
suggestion open to transformation and adaptation. 12 Tone Suite is an
ongoing process and Akiko Suzuki and Carl Heyward intend to continue above
this composition in a variety of media, in our daily lives, in the manner in Ron Weijers
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which we have chosen to connect and communicate with each other as Kranj I&II
artists and human beings, which is a rare thing. mixed media on paper
2x 50x60 cm

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Previously Medicated I, II, III, IV & V
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5x 30x40 cm
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EnVisual Dialogue series
Consumer Goods series (5)
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30x40 cm
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Radical Pacism series
Radical Pacism
mixed media on wooden panel
120x120 cm
2017
Global Art Project 2018 members

Carl Heyward - USA, Kent Heyward - USA, Akiko Suzuki - Japan, Chaewon
Laura Oh - Korea, Lorna Crane - New South Wales - Australia, Vered
Gersztenkorn - Israel, Jennifer Amy Homer-Hynes - USA, Robert Reed -
USA, Dennis Elleaadt - USA, Sandee Johnson - USA, Glen Rogers -
Mexico, Gregory J Rose - USA, N Masani Landfair - USA, Alvaro Sanchez -
Guatemala, Ron Weijers - the Netherlands, Ron Shelton - USA, John
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Crabtree - UK, Massimo Nota - Italy, Heather Wilcoxon - USA, Nicola Ron Weijers
Newton - UK/USA, William Jaggers - USA, Margot Hartford - Revival of the ttest series
exhibition installation
USA/CANADA, Abdellah El Haitout - Morocco, Naomi Middelmann - mixed media
USA/Switserland, Violet Skipp Haffner - USA, Sarah O'Hala - USA, Macha various sizes
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Melanie - France, Catherine Walburton - France, Flore Corriere - France,
Lea Panelouchka - France, Maria Allocco - USA, Carol Heft - USA, last page
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Lawrence Philp - USA, Monica Lisi - Italy, Mario Catalano - Italy, Stefano Revival of the ttest series
Cacciatore - Italy, Carmelo Marasciulo - Italy, Mar Daines - Satanic Puppeteer
mixed media on wooden panel
France/Colombia, Anne Brems - Belgium, Brian Auerbach - USA, Patricia 24x18.5 cm
Stacke-Kelly - Ireland, Tina Morris - UK, Christopher Harrison - USA, 2018

Nancy Perry - USA, Christine Verhaert - Belgium, Lynn Arnold - USA, Mikel next page
Frank - USA, Maryse Pique - France/UK/Spain, Elizabeth Harris - USA, Ron Weijers
Revival of the ttest series
Sarah Austin - UK, Christopher Padgett Hunnicutt - USA, Anthony Hommage to Frida Kahlo
mixed media on wooden panel
Bourdeau - France, Ana Gabiño Gabiño - Mexico, Annik Sensée - Belgium, 40x35 cm
Linda Coppen - Belgium, Françoise Amossé - France 2018
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Revival of the ttest series
Family Affairs 2.0
59x54 cm - 2018
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