Nanon Morsink

Nanon Morsink - Adam -Longstocking Photo

Biografía del Artista: Nanon Morsink is a Dutch artist born in 1973 whose work focuses on abstract and geometric painting. His style is characterized by the repetition of shapes and lines, as well as the use of vibrant and contrasting colors. Rhythmic patterns and symmetry can be seen in his works, which suggest a sense of movement and depth. Morsink has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career, including the Ootmarsum City Painting Prize in 2005, the Harderwijk City Painting Prize in 2009, and the Laren City Painting Prize in 2012. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai and the Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam. Morsink's work is inspired by the De Stijl movement in the Netherlands, which was characterized by simplicity and abstract geometry. However, his work is also influenced by popular culture, graphic design and electronic music. Many of his pieces feature references to video game culture, which gives it a futuristic and avant-garde look. In short, Nanon Morsink is a Dutch artist known for his abstract and geometric painting style, characterized by the repetition of shapes and lines, as well as the use of vibrant and contrasting colors. He has received numerous awards and has exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. His work is inspired by the De Stijl movement and popular culture, which gives it a futuristic and avant-garde look.

The first long stocking was created for a solo exhibition Corcordia Hengelo (NL) in 2011: "Hendrika", a pair of knitted clogs joined by socks point. This caused a lot of sensations in the visitors of the exhibition, which made me fantasize about a whole series of these "long stockings", each with its own own character and history. My thoughts turned to a variant "perverted" with high heels and fishnet stockings, a Ko-de-ranger variant with huge wellington boots. Or did my imagination go too far? At that time I was asked to do an exhibition at the RABO-theater in Hengelo. (Holland). What could be better than these characters in a theatre? So I I took up knitting for almost a year and a half. One character after another emerged: Marie- Antoinette, Seyx Sadie, Pink little Lucy, Three Legged Sally, and many, many others. They all had some humor, those absurdly long and stretched legs but at the same time at the same time terribly tragic. And that combination made them very interesting to me. So interesting that I wanted the stories to be developed in my fantasy were visible to others. This is why I I asked my colleague/photographer Jan Beerling to start a project together to photographing these long stockings worn by real people. It started a co-production! Models were sought, a make-up artist was brought in, sketches. And there were photo shoots, lots of photo shoots. We created a series unconventional photographic; an indeterminate world of characters, sometimes extravagant, sometimes very calm and subdued, each telling their own own story but also leave room for the viewer's experience.