Ger van Elk - Zeefdruk: Oranje, banje, bleue - 1985 - Sold

Silkscreen by Ger van Elk from 1985. Title: Oranje, blanje, bleue. Number: 46/120. Published for Holland Festival 1985. Dimensions sheet: H116 x w83cm. The work is signed at the top left by the artist. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.

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Gerrit Pieter (Ger) van Elk (Amsterdam, March 9, 1941 – Amsterdam, August 17, 2014)[1] was a Dutch visual artist who made sculptures, painted photographic works, installations and film works. His work is generally classified under conceptual art and arte povera.

Together with Marinus Boezem, Wim T. Schippers and Jan Dibbets, Van Elk is seen as one of the most important representatives of these movements in the Netherlands.[2][3] The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Van Abbemuseum, the Kunstmuseum The Hague, the Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Tate Gallery in London[4] have work by Van Elk, among others. Reflection on art history plays an important role in his work.
Ger van Elk was educated at the Institute for Applied Arts Education (the current Rietveld Academy) in Amsterdam. He also studied art history at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles (1961–1963) and at the University of Groningen (1965–1966). In Los Angeles he became friends with like-minded artists such as William Wegman and the Dutchman Bas Jan Ader.

He started his career as an artist in the 1960s, when he signed the A-dynamic manifesto, in which he, together with Wim T. Schippers and Bob Wesdorp, advocated the creation of works of art in which the personal expression of the artist is in no way important. is.

In 1967, together with Jan Dibbets and Reinier Lucassen, Van Elk founded the International Institute for the Retraining of Artists, which was responsible for a number of manifestos and projects in the style of conceptual art.

In the 1960s and 1970s he also designed posters and record sleeves for improv music by well-known Dutch musicians.

From 1969 to 1972, Van Elk increasingly focused on working with slide and film images. In 1969 he took part in the exhibition Op Losse Screws/Situations and Cryptostructures, in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Van Elk taught at Ateliers '63 in Haarlem from 1972 to 1981 and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1994–1995).

He received several prizes for his work, such as the David Röell Prize from the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds in 1982, the JC van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture in 1996 and the Oeuvre Prize from the Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture in 2004.

In 2013, he suffered a brain haemorrhage and his health deteriorated. From his sickbed he described his work as follows: "The world of modern art is getting darker and darker. (...) I hate that and I wanted to respond to it in my own way."