about art Tanya Vogelzang

Tanya Vogelzang (° NL, 1970)

The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (1998)

The work of Tanya Vogelzang is a combination of photography, installation and sculpture.

After the scale models, always made of paper, are built and photographed, they evolve digitally for further construction and colouring.

The result is reminiscent of staged photography. Time seems to stand still. This gives these artworks an aura of past time and timelessness.

It is a silent art. The presence of people is only tangible, but the traces are there. Without people, only a decor remains. Depicted in studios, sets, halls, rooms, constructions ....

The artworks often show reflective or translucent layers that divide, merge and transform reality. Boundaries between realism and surrealism blur.

It is a world to scale. It gives a compact and therefore powerful representation as it omits unnecessary details. To get to the core of meaning.

At the same time, it is the detail in the works that keep inviting you in.

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There are moments of precision that cannot, by the very nature of their genesis, be reproduced.
It is not the mechanical precision of 10,000 identical cups of coffee, precision bombardment or nanotechnology.
Precision that is always different is the only real precision.

When precision is active, the minimal becomes huge, and the excessive is weighed down.

Like, in an almost identical way Tanya Vogelzang's detailed images can suddenly disappear in the bright light that contours them. 

Precision is what it is not about.

by Dick Tuinder
from the publication: Everything is about the same size

 

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There are moments of precision that cannot, by the very nature of their genesis, be reproduced.

It is not the mechanical precision of 10,000 identical cups of coffee, precision bombardment or nanotechnology. Precision that is always different is the only real precision.

When precision is active, the minimal becomes huge, and the excessive is weighed down.

Like, in an almost identical way Tanya Vogelzang's detailed images can suddenly disappear in the bright light that contours them. 

Precision is what it is not about.

by Dick Tuinder
from the publication: Everything is about the same size