Gerrit van Dijk passed away in December 2012. The autonomous and inspired artist stood at the cradle of the HAFF and leaves behind an impressive body of works. The HAFF presents a programme of his work for the public and a special screening for friends and family.
At this screening a book was presented to Cilia van Dijk, with an interview with Gerrit by Hans Heesen and Lex Veerkamp.
An indictment against the rapidly advancing urbanization. The film shows a butterfly in field that flies from one flower to the next. The pleasant scene is disrupted by cut-out pictures of blocks of apartments and flats that leap into view to the sound of a pile driver. The butterfly's end is inevitable.
Two cubes, with constantly changeable images and shapes, start to play human games. They get acqainted, fall in love, have little cubes, fight, etcetera.
Frieze Frame geeft andermaal blijk van Van Dijk’s innige band met de beeldende kunst. Negenendertig schilderijen uit de collectie van het Frans Halsmuseum te Haarlem worden tot leven gebracht door de voorstellingen in de schilderijen te bewerken tot bezielde tableaus en in elkaar over te laten vloeien.
Frieze Frame again displays Van Dijk’s deep and intimate bond with the visual arts. Thirty-nine paintings from the Frans Hals museum collection in Haarlem are brought to life by re-modelling the representations in the paintings into impassioned tableaus and merging them with each other.
A poetic collage-like representation of the life of man, whereby the central figure chooses childhood memories in preference to earthly gain: the sound of new shoes, a walk with his father and the smell of elm wood. Narrated by actor Jacques Commandeur. The text was written by Dutch journalist Herman van Run.
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Internationaal bekroond zelfportret waarin de kunstenaar worstelt met de materie. Met een potlood geeft de tekenaar in ononderbroken lijnen zijn eigen lichaam weer. Op de achtergrond verschijnen beeld- en geluidsfragmenten die van invloed zijn op het werk, waaronder persoonlijke herinneringen en verwijzingen naar andere kunstenaars en werken.
International prize-winning self-portrait in which the artist wrestles with the subject matter. With a pencil, the artist draws his own body in uninterrupted lines. In the background images and sound fragments appear that influence the work, including personal memories and references to other artists and works.
In een ononderbroken reeks van krijttekeningen wordt, op de klanken van Gustav Mahlers ‘Das Lied von der Erde’, het proces van verwekking tot en met geboorte van een kind in beeld gebracht. De film is een ode aan het ontstaan van nieuw leven en een hommage aan Van Dijks eigen dochter Janneke.
In an uninterrupted series of chalk drawings, the process of procreation through to the birth of a child is portrayed, against the background of Gustav Mahler’s ‘Das Lied von der Erde’. The film is an ode to the creation of a new life and a homage to Van Dijk’s own daughter, Janneke.
The 1989 Golden Bear-winner by Monique Renault and Gerrit van Dijk, in which the appearance of two dance partners changes constantly. Countless historical figures and icons twirl by. Tarzan dances with Snow White, the Pope dances with Joan of Arc etc.. Van Dijk drew the female figures, Renault the male ones.
New York, 1935. Notorious gangster Dutch Schultz survives for one day after being shot. Police stenographers sit at his bedside to take down his final words.
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