DISTANT SUFFERING XXVIII
Ukrainian skies
Syrian |
[3,838 days | 245 days] www.hansovervliet.com
I think the kids are in trouble
Do not know what all the troubles are for The National - Conversation 16
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for Oleg&Olga K. and Mohammad A.
DISTANT SUFFERING XXVIII Syrian / Ukranian skies 3,838 days / 245 days
October 18, 2022
multiple of 12 clouds & 12 helmets for Haus der Kunst / München | Germany Archive Artist Pubilcations | München Germany Dokumenta-Archive | Kassel Germany inspired by KART | David Delifiora | Geelong - Australia Jürgen Olbrich | Kassel – Germany and Paul Verillio | the administration of fear www.hansovervliuet.com
Works within Syrian Skies:
Syrian skies [1,000 days] | April 8, 2014
12 clouds on A4, Art Space Willem3, Flushing - the Netherlands
Syrian skies [2,000 days] | October 21, 2016
12 painted clouds, Goes, - the Netherlands
Syrian skies [2,238 days] | May 17, 2017
12 clouds on A4 for Studio 7 in Flushing the Netherlands Syrian skies [2,936 days] | March 26 – April 26, 2019
9 painted clouds in nine wooden frame, each 97,9 x 66,3 x 4,5 cm.
Watermans in London, United Kingdom
Syrian skies [3,333 days] | May 31, 2021
12 clouds on A4 for Luxfer Open Space, Česká Skalice - Czech Republic
Syrian skies [3,672 days] | May 5, 2022
40 clouds as souvenir cards for KART, David Delifiora – Australia Syrian skies [3,838 days] | October 18, 2022
12 clouds / 12helmets for Haus der Kunst / München - Germany | Superbooks
Archive Artist Pubilcations | München Germany
Dukumenta-Archieve | Kassel - Germany
Since 2013, by means of the ongoing art-series distant suffering, the Dutch artist Hans Overvliet investigates the role of the media in their representation of (military) violence. This, in the con text of themes as perception, memory and identity formation.
Overvliet uses a various range of media, symbols and codes, bringing together dichotomies like beauty and violence, refinement and brutality, the sublime and the vulgar. Aspects of power, politics, exclusion, censorship and the connection between artist, art-work and viewer infiltrate his multifaceted conceptual oeuvre.
As a reporter, Overvliet was an eyewitness to the events in the Middle East during the 1980s. Of course these experiences resonate in distant suffering.
The action driven perspective that is included in the approach of Hannah Arendt’s non-paternalistic empathy is the performative part of the series distant suffering.
Elements of distant suffering were exhibited in the Netherlands, Belgium, Pakistan, Italy, the Czech Republic, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and England.
Hans Overvliet was born in Leiden in 1952; he lives and works in Middelburg, in the province of Zeeland in the South-West of the Netherlands.
Next to his artwork he is, together with his wife Willy van Houtum, the founder and every day guardian of the 27-year old space for contemporary art: ruimteCAESUUR.
DISTANT SUFFERING XXVIII
Ukrainian skies
Syrian /
[3,838 days / 245 days ] www.hansovervliet.com