Folkert de Jong (born 1972) is a Dutch artist. He makes large-scale
sculptures
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and
installations.
De Jong was born in
Egmond aan Zee
Egmond aan Zee () is a village on the North Sea coast in the Netherlands, Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, North Holland, Bergen, about 9 km west of Alkmaar.
Egmond aan Zee was a separate municipali ...
in the
Netherlands
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. De Jong’s installations are life-size representations of disturbing scenes including human figures and props formed from materials such as
polyurethane
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and
Styrofoam
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; his work often features the
uncanny
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and takes influence from the aesthetics of horror and the history of conflict,
war
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and
politics
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.
Exhibitions
*Prix de Rome/''Life's Illusions'', 2004
*''Golden Dawn'', Peres Projects, Los Angeles, 2005
*''Les Saltimbanques'', James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2007
*''Circle of Trust: Selected Works 2001-2009'',
Groninger Museum, Groningen, 2009
*''Operation Harmony'', James Cohan Gallery, New York, 2011
*''The Immortals'', Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, 2012
*''State of light'', Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo, Italy, 2017
*''Retrospective'',
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2018
Awards
*Prix de Rome, Sculpture, 2003
*KDR
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Prize, Amsterdam, 2004
Folkert de Jong, 'Shoot the Freak'
, NAi Publishers, retrieved 13 June 2012.
References
Further reading
*Catriona Black
''Go figure''
Heraldscotland, 15 April 2012
*Timothée Chaillou
''Interview à Folkert de Jong''
Dorade spring - summer 2012
*Scott Indrisek, ''The Alchemist'', Modern Painters, October 2011
*Philippe Dagen, ''La sculpture n'est pas morte, c'est Saatchi qui le dit'', Le Monde, 16 June 2011
*Alastair Sooke,
', The Daily Telegraph, 2011
*Jackie Wullschlager
Financial Times, 2011
*Nancy Durrant, ''The shape of things to come'', The Times, 2011
*Saskia van der Kroef, ''Folkert De Jong: Groninger Museum'', Artforum, February 2010
*S. van der Zijpp, Y. Tsitsovits, J. Declercq, ''Circle Of Trust - Folkert de Jong, selected works 2001-2009'', Groninger Museum, Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2009
*M. Straus, C. Van Gerrewey, ''Double Dutch'', Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art 2009
*J. Breton, A. Ténèze, ''Picasso – Ses maîtres et ses héritiers'', Beaux Art éditions, Paris 2008
*M. LeBlanc, ''Folkert de Jong'', Beautiful Decay, no. 5, 2008
*M. Amy
''Folkert de Jong – Confronting the Grotesque''
Sculpture magazine vol. 27/5, June 2008
*G. Volk, M. J. Straus, A. Finel Honigman, ''Folkert de Jong - Les Saltimbanques'', James Cohan Gallery, Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2007
*K. Zijlmans, J. Dietvorst, S. Weyns, ''Folkert de Jong - Gott Mit Uns'', Black Cat Publishing, Amsterdam 2006
*S. Wallis, S. Lüttiken, M. van Nieuwenhuizen, ''Folkert de Jong - Shoot The Freak'', NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2005
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1972 births
Living people
Dutch contemporary artists
Dutch installation artists
Dutch sculptors
Dutch male sculptors
Contemporary sculptors
People from Egmond
Prix de Rome (Netherlands) winners