CHRYSTL RIJKEBOER

Working on the ‘Men-Scapes’
Sep 03, 2011

The first 'Men-Scape' I made was very abstract. I made it to hang on a wall. But I will need to look at it several times before I will finish it definitively. The other 'Men-Scape' is made around an old Dutch table leg. I made a kind of polder land with a church, a little house and a windmill on it. I think I prefer this kind of 'Men-Scape'. Let’s wait and see where things will end!

Finisage ‘Nieuwe Kleren’ by performer Dolly Bellefleur.
Aug 29, 2011

Dolly Bellefleur, alter ego of performing-artist Ruud Douma, organized a special guided tour through the art show 'Nieuwe Kleren'.

Red Dress in exhibition de Vishal, Haarlem
Aug 11, 2011

August 10 - August 28
In this exhibition Willemijn Faber has chosen artists of who she thought the work has a resemblance one way or another. I 'm participating in this show together with Tije Domburg, a Haarlem based artist. We visited each other’s studios and talked about- and compared our work to find out if there actually is a resemblance. We both work with DNA and identity as a source of inspiration. We came to the conclusion that we both 'knit' our inspiration into an artwork, but both in a quite different way. The difference is the underlying thought, Tije Domburg examines and processes the human genome by literally unravel and re-assembling it in new structures and rhythms. His work is rhythmic and graphic. Chrystl Rijkeboer explores quite literally mankind in all it’s facets. She uses 'hair' as 'DNA source' to investigate it's origin and family ties. Her work is figurative and organic.

‘Nieuwe Kleren’ at Pand Paulus, Schiedam
Aug 08, 2011

August 7 until August 28.
'Nieuwe Kleren' is an artshow about artist’s ideas about fashion, curated by Marike Vierstra.
Participating artists are: Het Tukker & Everwijn Instituut, Steini Thorsson, Marchien Joosten, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Marike Viersta and Ka Yee Li. My work is called 'Change'.

Opening ‘Nieuwe Kleren’ at Pand Paulus, Schiedam
Aug 08, 2011

Setting up the show ‘Nieuwe Kleren’
Aug 07, 2011

The show wil be in Pand Paulus Schiedam and runs from August 7 until August 28.

New project ‘Men-scapes’
Jul 22, 2011

Men-scapes: Works that describe places on earth where human influence and interference is clearly visible.
In the project "Men-scapes", I will use literally- and emotionally-men touched and transformed land. I will frame, re-arrange and process these areas my way and thereby give them a new dimension.
Sometimes I will use a landscape 1:1 from an aerial- or satellite photo. Another time, I will reproduce a landscape from different positions and perspectives from the air on our planet. The choice of areas will be made by the geographical-, emotional- or artificial interests of these places.
The works I have in mind will be abstract men-scapes, combined with figurative elements.