TENTOONSTELLING in het groningermuseum

Ruud van Empel

Fotowerken 1995-2010

10 SEPTEMBER 2011 T/M 27 NOVEMBER 2011

World #36 2010
Cibachrome
177 x 124cm
69.7 x 48.8 inches

ruudvanempel.nl

He is a photographer-artist. His pictures are both a dream of Africa and a meditation on the role of color in a racial as well as pictorial sense.
He photographs professional child models in his studio along with detailed images of leaves, flowers, plants and animals. The pictures are then mixed and composed into Rousseau-like edenic settings using Photoshop.
Mixing truth and fiction, innocence and danger, van Empel’s work contains complex pictorial and political underpinnings while bursting with color.