{"id":1711,"name":"","email":"kaat.vannieuwenhuyse@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"nel-aerts","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"http://www.nelaerts.com/","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1987-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Nel","lastname":"Aerts","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Nel Aerts","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Aerts, Nel","stream_count_app":41,"gender":"female","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/092/480/large/LR_Nel_Aerts_byIPATEER_1802-12.jpg?1715852112","poster_credits":"(c)Nel Aerts, photo: Isabelle Pateer, 2021","media_count":1,"items_count":11,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNel Aerts\u003c/strong\u003e lives and works in Antwerp. She makes drawings, paintings and collages, in a playful and colourful style, in which diverging traces can be recognised from a rich tradition in \u0026nbsp;the art of painting. She uses an abstract play of lines, which is penetrated in a radical manner by Cubist figures, round forms or even surfaces of colour. Her work is never artificial or far-fetched; these are direct pictures, sometimes figurative, containing a simple, innocent pictorial language that breathes a large degree of freedom.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNel Aerts paints without complexes, almost like a spontaneous experiment, for extracting as much individuality as possible from her paint and imagination. With her brushes, she almost carelessly creates impressions of kings, pub visitors, slender female bodies or decorative wallpaper. However busy or cut up they may sometimes be, her scenes always radiate a certain peace, like a picture from a movie that is momentarily put on hold and is then fixed as a stubbornly strong \u003ci\u003eGestalt\u003c/i\u003e. The same is true for her drawings. She can turn the word \"nothing\" into something on the canvas.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer self-portraits, on the other hand, have both a cartoonish and a tragic quality. She poses uneasily in our own small world, even if we do not know what is pose and what is real. In a recent work she uses more and more textiles, with which he makes collages that allow her to replace the classic texture of oil on canvas with a new medium.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNel Aerts\u003c/strong\u003e woont en werkt in Antwerpen. Ze tekent, schildert en maakt collages in een speelse en kleurrijke stijl waarin uiteenlopende sporen te herkennen zijn uit de rijke traditie van de schilderkunst. Ze hanteert een abstract lijnenspel dat radicaal doorbroken wordt door kubistische figuren, ronde vormen of egale kleurvlakken. Haar werk is nooit gekunsteld of vergezocht, het zijn directe beelden, soms figuratief, met een eenvoudige, onschuldig aandoende, beeldtaal die een grote mate van vrijheid ademt.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNel Aerts schildert complexloos, als een spontaan experiment om zoveel mogelijk eigenheid uit haar verf − en verbeelding − te puren. Schijnbaar achteloos borstelt ze impressies van koningen, kroeggangers, ranke vrouwenfiguren of decoratief behangpapier. Hoe druk of verknipt soms ook, haar taferelen stralen door hun structurering altijd een zekere rust uit, als een filmbeeld dat heel even op pauze wordt gezet om dan te worden gefixeerd als een koppige, sterke \u003ci\u003egestalt\u003c/i\u003e. Hetzelfde geldt voor haar tekenwerk. Van het woord “niets” maakt ze op doek altijd wel iets.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaar zelfportretten zijn dan weer cartoonesk en tragisch tegelijk. Ze poseert ongemakkelijk in haar eigen kleine wereld, al weten we niet wat pose is of echt. In haar recent werk gebruikt ze meer en meer textiel waarmee ze collages maakt die haar toelaten om de klassieke textuur van olie op doek te vervangen door een nieuw medium.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"BE","place":"Antwerpen","category":{"en":"Lives in","nl":"Leeft in","fr":"Vit à"}},{"country":"BE","place":"Turnhout","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}