Jasper de Beijer “The Admiral’s Headache”

Asya Geisberg Gallery

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[Image: Jasper de Beijer "The Admiral's Headache - Cabin" (2021) C-Print 31.50h x 55.12w in.]

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Asya Geisberg Gallery presents “The Admiral’s Headache”, the fourth solo exhibition of photographic works by Jasper de Beijer. The new series expands on the artist’s familiar themes of Dutch colonialism and the way that the media romanticizes, simplifies and conflates history and cultural attitudes. De Beijer chooses subjects for their strong visual mythology, and past series have included mythical encounters between natives and explorers in the jungles of Brazil, the Dutch East Indies, and contemporary Africa. In each series, the artist becomes steeped in research and image collection both on the ground and at home. De Beijer then combines digital sketching, drawing, 3D modeling, and sculpture to create stand-alone photographs. Every object in this series is first designed in a game-modeling software, then printed as a flat 2D blueprint, cut out and folded, and finally reconfigured as 3D paper miniatures on a scale-model landscape. The photographs in this series reference 18th-century hand-colored engravings, and from a distance could be colonial illustrations. But upon closer viewing, the meticulous hand-drawn lines are imbued with an eerie sci-fi quality. The tell-tale clues of the cut paper reveal themselves: creases and folds in costumes, or some remains of glue visible in the clouds.

Jasper de Beijer attended the Amsterdam Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United States. De Beijer has an upcoming retrospective at the Museum Rijswijk (Fall 2021), and is a recipient of the 2020 Agnes van den Brandeler Museum Prize. Previous solo exhibitions include The Center Photographique Rouen, France; Flatland Gallery, NL; Wiels Museum, NL; The Hague Museum of Photography, NL; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; Museum Het Domein in Sittard, NL; the Museum de Hallen Haarlem, NL; Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, NL; TZR Galerie Kai Brückner, Dusseldorf, Germany; Hamish Morisson Gallery, Berlin, Germany; The Empire Project, Istanbul, Turkey; and Studio d’Arte Cannaviello, Milano. He has participated in group exhibitions at Art Brussels, PAN Amsterdam, Photo Basel, and Paris Photo. De Beijer’s work has taken him to residencies at the Centre Photographique, Rouen, France; the Pompgemaal Den Helder Residency, Amsterdam; WIELS Institute, Brussels; The Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao; and Kamiyama AIR, Japan. He is part of a large number of collections, including The Bank of America Collection, Collection Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, and the Rabo Art Collection, Utrecht. His work has been reviewed by Het Parool, Vice Magazine, The New York Observer, Artnet News, Time Out New York, and The Woven Tale Press, among others.

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from April 10, 2021 to May 15, 2021

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