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Marcelle van Bemmel (artist)

Marcelle van Bemmel
Persoonsgegevens
Volledige naam	Pauline Marcelle van Bemmel
Geboren	Markelo, 04-01-1948
Geboorteland	Netherlands
Beroep(en)	Artist
RKD-profiel
Portaal    Kunst & Cultuur

Marcelle van Bemmel is a Dutch artist who creates sculptures, photography, installation art, light art, and performance art.

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Career

Marcelle van Bemmel started studying in Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam in 1966 and graduated in 1971. (1) She has mostly been active and creating works in Rotterdam since 1982 until 1997. (2)

Bemmel, as a visual artist, is especially interested with undefinable form of materials such as natural elements and phenomenon namely, water, reflection, light and shadow play and most importantly, time. (3) This way her works are not completed by its own but rather open themselves towards interpretation and relation between the spectator and environment. Bemmel uses visuality as a metaphor of what she often expresses as the 'invisible world of experience.' (4)

Between the year 1982 and 1990, Bemmel channels visuality through performance art such as her masterwork, COELACANTH (1982)(5), ROVING ROCKS (1983) (6), PERSEUS' SHIELD (1986) (7), and many more. 1990 until 1995 was the period where Bemmel explored a new theme related to confusion with works like THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1990) (8). After 1995, Bemmel continues to explore different materials, and even so far as to venture to landscape art.(9) From records she has now completed a number of exhibitions and assignments for museums and other art institutions.(10) Fast forward to 2016, she has mainly dealt with photography. (11)

Work/vision of the artist

Artists face a paradoxical task, namely, expressing these invisible ideas and emotions with tangible or visual means. Marcelle van Bemmel is inspired by this contradiction to prefer materials that do not have a determinative form. These materials can variate from water to reflections, light and shadow to also time. This choice in materials affects that her works are rarely an object in their own right, bet they often have a relationship with the public or their environment.

Overview of artworks

Non-exclusive overview of Marcelle van Bemmel's work. Van Bemmel created artworks in various art disciplines, here are shown a few disciplines with the works of art.

Performances

Year	Name of artwork	In collection of	Format / Material(s)
1982	COALACANTH		Performance
1983	ROVING ROCKS
1984	BACK TRACK
1985	LOOKING FOR CLUES
1986	PERSEUS' SHIELD
1987	DIOGENES
1988	PEENEEWALLY
1989	THE RED KINGS' DREAM
1990	THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
1997	SYNAPS
2005	COOL WATER

Text works

Year	Name of artwork	In collection of	Format / Materials)
2000	one man's ceiling is another man's floor		etters, water, rope, bamboo, paraffin
2005	later is nu toen (later is now then)	Assigned by Deelgemeente Noord, Rotterdam	Sculpture
2009	Jamais ici (Never here)	Installation at Peninsula, Van Abbehuis Eindhoven
2010	Ons hoofd is rond, zodat ons denken van richting kan veranderen (Our head is round, that our thoughts can change direction) quote Picabia	Text installation in the Christus Triumfator Church Den Haag
2011	VAN AARD VERANDEREN (CHANGE NATURE)	Moss text on a wall in the garden of Villa Maarheeze, Wassenaar	Moss mixed with yoghurt
2012	Oplossen in hemel en aarde, niet verdwijnen (Dissolving in heaven and earth, not disappearing)	In the sculpture garden of Rob Maingay, Rotterdam	Moss
2014	Narcissus	In Botanical Garden Leiderdorp. Part of the exhibition " Metamorphoses"

Overview of exhibitions

Solo / group

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Publications

1. Essay "kunstwerken als memorystones," essay on the occasion of the Hans Baaij Essay Prize 2006.

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External links

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