Tine Colen

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Tine Colen

Master expo

2011

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

Little Big Paintings

It must have been a combination of holding the incomprehensible presence of my first child’s tiny body in my arms and observing, with some skepticism, the tendency to increase the scale of most master pieces, as if bigger meant better, that made me reflect on scale and value. I wanted to create paintings that, despite their small size, limited marks, and clumsiness, could still evoke a sense of something vast.

 

The series received the Grant Horlait-Dapsens and the Laurent Meeus Painting Award.

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After her training in the medium of painting, Tine Colen (1985) felt the need not to simply represent or imitate the world, but to be in the midst of things. Gradually, the following elements became characteristic of her work: The blurring of boundaries between art and functional objects by creating items that carry meaning and can sometimes be used / working with natural materials in a cyclical process, often defined by their temporary, seasonal nature, as well as human-made materials considered waste / seeking specific knowledge about plant usage through the study of ethnobotany and anthropology / a slow and labor-intensive making process, rooted in collective creation / generating value through the way objects are used, gifted, and passed on / using public space as a workshop, where the physical work sparks conversation, encounters, and change.

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