Ronald Ophuis studies single actions sometimes for weeks at a time before he starts to paint. The scenes he depicts reflect moments of despair, violence, pain, and the breaking of trust.
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My work consists of the creating and painting of fictitious events. I stage the drama in my studio. Actors playing and reconstructing the scene in front of a camera. Before I start I do my research
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In 1992 a transport plane crashed into two blocks of flats in the district Bijlmermeer in Amsterdam. Dozens of people were killed. Although no one filmed the actual crash, there was only footage of
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The testimonies may be fictitious but the sentiments we have experienced are not. As a means to call up emotions they are not necessarily untrue.
Is it possible to form a social community as
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As a child I often looked at the images from the life of Christ during mass. Above the altar a crucified Christ was hung and in the mid of last century a beautiful Stations of the Christ was painted
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In what situation do we conjure up fictitious images. When does our visual phantasy starts to work. At night in our dreams. When we’re having sex. When we’re tormented with visions of fear.
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Compare it to the games children play. They play war games, play death, they long for a game full of mature love an intimacy. They make agreements about who is in charge. They construct a balance of
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At first the studio is an empty place. As an artist you decide what kind of life will fill your empty space. It is inevitable that it will fill itself with the human fascinations, obsessions, fears,
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