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MISHA DE RIDDER Sometimes natural phenomena can become so estranged and mysterious,
that we are inclined to describe them as unreal realities. It might be the
extraordinary shape of a tree, a mountain, a shadow, a cloud or the mirroring
reflection of nature in a lake, but it is foremost the unfamiliarity of the
natural aesthetics of reality. Misha de Ridders works can be seen as
attempts to capture these temporary phenomena and atmospheres of nature
within the still medium of photography. By seeking for the absence of human
intervention, by waiting for the climax of the temporal aesthetic and by
pushing the camera to its technical limits De Ridders photographs become
both exotic reports as autonomous artificial worlds. "To search, to disclose and to write with light is what Misha de
Ridder does in his landscape photos and videos. He does not seek the comfort
zone of the beautiful and picturesque, but the sublime. It is a quest for
entering into a confrontation with nature as a given larger than ourselves,
to re-visualize a greatness that is both realistic but also inconceivable.
Landscape is a paradox: how can we hold as an image what perhaps can't be
photographed, the change of light for example, or the tactility of the
landscape. The greatness lifts us beyond borders we are not always able to
comprehend, not mentally, nor in feeling. Landscape is not only seen, but is
a multi-sensory experience with knowledge and craft. Professor Erik A. de Jong, opening speech 'Solstice' FOAM, 2011 As an artist, De Ridder makes images that could easily become
saccharine calendar art or empty exercises in sublime kitsch. Arctic sunsets,
verdant dunes and dense forests have all been De Ridder's subjects, but he
has always succeeded in pushing them to a new level and forced us to look
again - either through inventive design in the case of Wilderness or
editorial restraint and focus, as in the case of Dune. In some ways, De
Ridder's works are so forcefully anachronistic that they are contemporary. It
takes a brave and talented soul to tackle the sublime landscape and succeed
like De Ridder. Adam Bell, PhotoEye Magazine, 2011 Misha de Ridder (1971, Alkmaar, The Netherlands) lives in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. De Ridder exhibited at Julitte Jongma Gallery, Layr Wuestenhagen
Contemporary, PhotoEspaa, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Stedelijk
Museum Amsterdam, Foam photography museum Amsterdam, The Museum of the City
of New York. Photobooks by Misha de Ridder: Sightseeing (2000, De Balie),
Wilderness (2003, Artimo), Dune (2011, Lay Flat), Abendsonne (2011,
Schaden.com). website: contact: Julitte Jongma Gallery Gerard Doustraat 128a 1073VX Amsterdam The Netherlands tel&fax: +31 20 463 69 04 CURRICULUM VITAE Born
1971 in Alkmaar, The Netherlands Lives
and works in Amsterdam EDUCATION 1996 Utrecht School of the
Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands SOLO
EXHIBITION (selection) 2011 Solstice,
Foam photography museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 2009 Abendsonne, Galerie Julitte Jongma, Amsterdam,
Netherlands 2007 Galerie Julitte
Jongma op FIAC, Paris, France 2006 Wilderness,
Greenleaf Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2005 Elysian Fields,
Galerie Julitte Jongma, Amsterdam, Netherlands Het
dak van de hemel, Kunstkerk, Dordrecht, Netherlands 2004 Hunting, Kunsthuis
13, Velp, Netherlands, with Joris van der Horst Beautiful
Tree in Terrible City, Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2003 Wilderness, Foam
Photography Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2000 Sightseeing, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam,
Netherlands GROUP
EXHIBITION (selection) 2011 Visions on Film,
Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Germany 2010 Lost & Found in
Vilnius, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Litouwen Stream,
Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles, USA / Pent House Gallery, Baltimore, USA 2009 Dutch Seen: New York
Rediscovered, Museum of the City of New York, USA Lost & Found in New York, New Museum, New York, USA 2008 Horror Vacui, Layr
Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria 2006 Naturaleza, PHotoEspaa, Madrid, Spain Google
Earth, Academiegalerie,
Utrecht, Nederland 2004 On Angels, Galerie
Julitte Jongma, Amsterdam, Netherlands Toekenning
021, Fonds
BKVB, Amsterdam, Nederland 2003 Link - Gemeentelijke
Aankopen, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 2001 Mooie fotos,
Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, Netherlands MONOGRAPHY
(selection) 2011 Abendsonne, Schaden.com, ISBN 978 3
932187 88 9 2011 Dune,
Lay Flat, ISBN 978 0 9842973 2 0 2003 Wilderness, Artimo, ISBN 90 7538 075 5 2000 Sightseeing, Uitgeverij De Balie, ISBN 90 6617 247 9 FILMOGRAPHY 2008 I Love Alaska, Director of Photography, HD video 50', Director
Lernert Engelberts & Sander Plug Submarine | 2009 Netherlands Film Festival | 2010
Troms International Film Festival (selection) PUBLICATIONS
(selection) 2010 Everyday catalogue, Ctrl+C, Studio Blanco, Italy Stupendous #02, New York, USA 2009 Foam Album 09, Foam Photography Museum, ISBN 978-94-90022-04-4 Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered, catalogue, Museum of the
City of New York / Foam The New York Times Magazine, The New Forest, USA 2006 Dutch Eyes, a critical history of photography in Netherlands, ISBN 9789040083372 2005 Een nieuwe nederzetting, De Verbeelding, ISBN 90 74159 85 0 Het dak van de hemel, Municipality of Dordrecht 2002 Het verlangen naar de stad, Uitgeverij De Balie / SWD, ISBN 90 6617 284
3 BIBLIOGRAPHY
& MEDIA (selection) 2011 Metropolis
M, Saskia van der Kroef, Solstice 2009 The New York Times, Martha Schwendener, Photographic Links to Golden
Age of Dutch Painting Conscientious, Jrg Colberg, Review: Dutch Seen at Museum of the
City of New York WNYC - New York Public Radio, Beth Fertig, Dutch Seen The New York Times Magazine, Russell Shorto, Reaching Here de Volkskrant, Diederik van Hoogstraten, New York door
Netherlandsse ogen de Volkskrant, Lennard Dost, Warmbloedige Landschappen Kunstbeeld, Machteld Leij, Abendsonne 2006 Het Financieele Dagblad, Anne Berk, Het Nieuwe Verlangen 2005 de Volkskrant, Maria Barnas, Weelderige realiteit 2003 Link,
Hripsime Visser, catalogue Gemeentelijke Aankopen Stedelijk Museum RESIDENCIES 2006 Townhouse Gallery,
Cairo, Egypte 2004 Raid Projects
Gallery, Los Angeles, USA WORK
IN COLLECTIONS (selection) Foam photography museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands The
Dutch House of Representatives, Netherlands Fons
Welters, Netherlands Flatland
Gallery, Netherlands Dutch
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands Doctors
Pension Funds, Netherlands Sanders,
Netherlands COMMISSIONS
(selection) 2010 Architecture Icon:
Juliaan Lampens, Wallpaper magazine, UK 2009 The New Forest, The
New York Times Magazine, USA 2008 Must maakt de stad,
advertisement campaign Blauwe Kamer,
Must Urbanism, Netherlands 2005 Annual Report 2004,
Netherlands Film Fund 2004 You make it a Sony,
European advertisement campaign, Fallon London, UK 2003 The secret of
Utrecht, Foundation for Urban Photography, Utrecht TPG
Post, advertisement campaign, FHV BDDO, Amsterdam 2002 Weekend Agenda,
Forum Magazine, Netherlands 2001 Me, Myself and You,
Droog Design, Netherlands 2000 Re-Connect,
Re-Magazine, Netherlands GRANTS Miscellaneous
grants by The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture Amsterdam
Fund for the Arts & Mondriaan Foundation from 1999 to present. REPRESENTED
BY Julitte
Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.juliettejongma.com |
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