{"id":4462,"date":"2021-06-29T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwstaging.keesdeboekhouder.nl\/jip-piet-ik-vind-de-normale-wereld-een-beetje-eentonig\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T12:01:14","slug":"jip-piet-i-find-the-normal-world-a-bit-monotonous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwstaging.keesdeboekhouder.nl\/en\/jip-piet-i-find-the-normal-world-a-bit-monotonous\/","title":{"rendered":"Jip Piet \u2013 \u2018I find the \u2018normal\u2019 world a bit monotonous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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You might know the imaginative work of Jip Piet (32) from the illustrative work he does for Correspondent, de Volkskrant and other media. During the lockdown, he not only exhibited his own work, but also that of fellow artists. And his work is on display during the Rotterdam Art Week from 1 to 4 July. But most of all Jip Piet likes to create worlds in which he can escape himself: \u2018I find the \u2018normal\u2019 world a bit monotonous\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Illustrations, artwork, paintings, murals, merchandise. In what type of genre can you do your best work?
<\/strong>Creating performance installations is what I like most. The creation of my own world. It can be an exhibition, or something at a festival, or in a place where you don\u2019t expect it at all. I prefer to work in a space that I can completely adjust to my liking with, for example, sound, image, light and smell. I then incorporate drawings and patterns that could also be viewed as separate art works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Where do you get the inspiration to make these works?
<\/strong>In recent years I have made many trips in Latin America. It seems as if the bond with nature\u2019s magic is more present there. I try to connect to that feeling. But it\u2019s also hard work and just keep trying. It could take three months before I really have a great idea that I want to develop further.<\/p>\n

How would you describe your own work?
<\/strong>On the one hand I make commissioned illustrations, on the other hand I do free work. The performance installations. In my work I try to ask questions about reality. What is the norm? The work itself is somewhere in between art and illustrations. I like to exhibit my work without too much context. It must be an experience you cannot avoid.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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For example, I am now in the investigative phase of a project. I am going to shoot three music videos, and I\u2019ll create an installation where each video will be recorded in. I don\u2019t necessarily view music as a three-minute pop song. A song could also go on for an hour as a rhythm that merges with the surrounding space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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You\u2019ve completed a bachelor\u2019s degree as an Interior Architect at the Royal Academy of Art. Do you remember why you chose that study and do you use this knowledge in your current work?
<\/strong>In the past I wasn\u2019t aware you could also make or invent something that does not necessarily have a functional purpose. You\u2019re young and you think about what suits you. I really liked it in the beginning, but slowly but surely it became less about creating and more about responding to the wishes and needs of the customer. Furnishing and designing started to bother me more and more. It always had to be functional and it had to be about something. That\u2019s still a twosome in my mind. Do I just want to make things that make people think? Or do I also want to create something functional that makes people think? The artistic struggle, haha!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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