MICHÈLE SCHOONJANS GALLERY has the great honor to present, in collaboration with Torch Gallery from Amsterdam, the well known Dutch artist Teun Hocks.
The exhibition, “Teun Hocks : Untitled”, presents a selection of analogue and digital works as well as original drawings tackling the artist’s topics and ideas, which serve as the basis of the various works by Teun Hocks.
In his creative process, Teun Hocks combines his various skills: performer, set designer, photographer, painter and he also knows, like no other, how to exploit the vast possibilities of digital photography.
Before designing the décor and performing, Teun Hocks starts by translating his ideas into drawings. He then constructs the scenery in his studio, shoots with a black and white on a 6x9cm format film, prints large black-white pictures in sepia tones and thereafter paints them with transparent oil paint.
Teun Hocks creates scenarios based on scenes from everyday life or from his imagination.
The fact that he paints his prints, enhances the confusing, iconic style of his photographs.
In recent years, Teun Hocks has expanded his work with digital photo series, with the difference that the results of these series, which is more cinematic than pictorial.
These photo-paintings have no title, because the artist wants everyone, who views them to have the freedom to choose their own title.
