Hans van Wingerden
I(un)borrow images and recompose them. This concerns representations of concepts that are regularly discussed in our contemporary visual world, but through manipulation, context-alienation, an associative reference yield a new visual meaning. Since then (1995) I have made conceptual work with various subjects to address a critical note with regard to human functioning. In addition to the technical integration, it also gave me the inspiration to shape my intellectual objective. In this, applications of electronics, LED and neon light are also included as a possibility to achieve visual expression. The neon usually comes from old factory buildings that I had demolished in the 90s and thus saved from destruction. The substantive meaning can generally be traced back to how I experience the extreme contrasts of our time in my work. The world in which humanity lives is hypocritical and fake, which means that injustice has become an accepted phenomenon, so that it reflects a total illusion. I cannot separate this from my artistry, because it is my task to use my accentuated visual meanings to provide a focused stimulus to direct consciousness in a certain direction. In this I must state that the image, or the translation of meaning into the image, is always the most important driving force, taking the conceptual content with it, in order to be able to represent the image in its particularity.
