Jacobus Cornelis Johannes "Jacques" van der Heyden (professional name JCJ Vanderheyden) (23 June 1928 – 27 February 2012) was a Dutch painter and photographer.

Life and work

JCJ Vanderheyden was born in 1928 in

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. He studied from 1946 to 1956 at the Academy of Art and Design St. Joost in

and painting at the Jan van Eyck Academy in

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. Van der Heyden was a guest lecturer repeatedly and taught from 1987 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in

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. Between 1964 and 1975 Vanderheyden experimented with film, new media,

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, sound equipment, breathing exercises,

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and

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. In the 1970s in his studio Vanderheyden started to rearrange his own paintings, as well as the old masters (

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, Pieter Brueghel or

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), so that installations were created, which he recorded as a photograph or with video. In the 1980s he concentrated on installations where his own paintings are displayed small or fragmented. Trips to the

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(1977),

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(1989), the North Pole (1990) and in the

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(1979 and 1986) inspired him to work, having the emptiness, the limitation and the reflection as subject. On the works the horizon is, however, never at a right angle to the plumb perpendicular, which can be seen repeatedly.Van Abbemuseu
JCJ Vanderheyden in memoriam 1928–2012
retrieved 2024-12-19 (English & Dutch)

References

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