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FMP expo visit

  • HildeMaassen
  • Sep 17, 2020
  • 5 min read

This weekend I visited 4 exhibitions.


Zoro Feigl


Makes installations that seem to be alive. His materials dance and twist.

The forms are constantly changing and as a viewer you become entangled in the movements: they embrace and amaze, but can sometimes also frighten you. The inspiration is drawn from nature and physical phenomena and experimental.

He is discovering the amazingness of what is already there, right in front of us.

While intentionally aiming to produce and control a more or less predictable outcome,


Work Murmuration

The way it looked (for the size) and a short recording; experiencing is the best but a small movie to see what happens is better than seeing photos.

I was so impressed and became happy having seen this.



Comfort art

An exhibition with 50 works of different artist brought together under the title comfort art because of corona together with posters of every work that can be ordered and that I see on the windows of a lot of the houses in the center of Schiedam (the place where the museum is situated).


The work of Esther Zitman with the name Mini museum 2.0 shows that something intriging doesn't have to be big.

Margi Geerlinks


Margi was asked by the museum to do a series on Covid 19 in the city of Schiedam. There wasn't a big budget so most of the images were pinned on the walls; some were framed. This was an ongoing project and that is why I like the way it is exhibit. The black and white images I prepared for print. (I was free with burning and dodging). Margi wanted the old barite paper look. I think I succeeded in this. The color images she did herself and they didn't pop enough for my taste.



This was an exhibition in Gallery 158, Margi Geerlinks is the owner. The images on the invitation spook to me. The two on the left work good together. Seeing them in the gallery I was a bit disappointed. The left one was presented on a chipwood wall and totally overlooked. The other works by Danielle Kwaaitaal were presented better but didn't look okay in print. They were developed wrong and this gave a kind of solarisation effect. They "broke". Having the right eye you can already see it on het website.


Marco van Duyvendijk had part of the images pinned to the wall as Margi did with hers. Didn't work for the images in my opinion. The framed images worked better. I have no idea still what the images were about and really missed the story (they weren't good enough without it).


The images of Annabel van Royen were good in the composition and the moment but the quality of the developing was not doing them justice: too grey and flat. The only thing on her site was the invitation you see below and a link to her instagram.


I got the confirmation that a lot of people can make good images but the proces of getting them printed can make or brake it.


Gerard van Soest


The work of Gerard Soest and Marcel Wesdorp I saw in a small group exhibition with bad lights and surrounded by bad images. This was nog good for the work.

The images are made in the new build harbour of Rotterdam. Interesting was the price. €2500,- got the series of 8 images on barite paper. It says that this is the only print an unicum. Then I think it is not expensive enough.


Marcel Wesdorp

Marcel Wesdorp, 2018. "804.7023134-119.7020505 0" (clouds) 58,5x78 cm (€1600)

I wrote about Marcel before when I first started with the 3D exploration and now I saw his work again. Three images exhibited far apart in a dark corner nut beautifully printed on Hähnemuller Rag and mounted on aluminium. I did a course at the university of Leiden for curators of museums to recognise old and modern photographic print process and how to best store them. They are not happy when two different materials are stuck together in a permanent way. It is not known yet how long it will survive and how to be kept the best. What is used for glue and how will it react overtime.


I copied and paste part of the text from the site of Wesdorp just to see what he writes about his images that visual resemble images in my series.


Wesdorp creates computerized animations of landscapes. Prints of these digitally developed areas seem to be real photographs, uniquely named by their specific xyz co-ordinates. But at a second glance you are struck by an unknown reality that lies beyond. Some steps in this process lead to unsuspected and surprisingly catching images, each of them with a most sensitive and enigmatic touch, as may be seen in his PW series. Apart from the purely software based techniques, the collection and modelling of existing satellite data and maps is a second intricate field of work of the artist. Here another elaborate few years were needed to complete the paper-printed black and white ‘Untitled World File’. Wesdorp’s fine imagination of scale and proportion makes you dazzle for this vacuum of time and space. Wesdorp continues to investigate new ways to show what lies beyond the surface.


Olaf Mooij


This was fun I new the car with brains because I saw it driving by a couple of times but didn't know that I know the artist for years walking the dog together. And visiting this exhibition I found out that? I also know his son and daughter also through their dog.


All the objects are one way or another connected to cars but look like animals set up museum-like. The installation is in a ship a Wonderfull place; very cozy.


Mooij’s body of work involves the alteration of motor vehicles, in pieces that express the nearly psychological connection between drivers and their cars, or that convert vehicles into a kind of mobile sculpture architecture. With ‘braincar’, Mooij questioned what it would be like if instead the car itself could experience with a kind of consciousness its own passage through spacetime.


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