Klaas Kloosterboer
My work is based on certain particular notions. These notions derive from my activities in the studio, from my thinking and acting as an artist. To me, these notions are determining realizations which I call 'laws'. One of these laws is: ‘To be does not coincide with to do.
Klaas Kloosterboer via peternijenhuis.blogspot.nl, 2013
Choice is the constitutive element in Klaas Kloosterboer’s (1959, the Netherlands) work. Every act, every addition and every change precludes another. It’s a well-worn idea, which remains unremittingly shocking nonetheless. Though his work may come across as the product of offhanded improvisations its internal logic is, in fact, rooted in a deep consciousness of time. Thus, it proves to be not some wild experiment but a meticulous study, the desired outcome of which is always the unexpected.
