Lot 89: MARNIX GOOSSENS

MARNIX GOOSSENS DUTCH B.1967 LOVE SONG 1999 c-print mounted on di-bond 100 x 80 cm / 39.37 x 31.5"

Some recent solo exhibitions
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2008, 'Het wassende water'
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden 2006, 'Diep Licht'
Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam 2004, 'Self portraits'

Some recent group exhibitions
George Eastman House, Rochester 2009, 'Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art'
De Vishal, Haarlem 2007, 'Bird Watching'
Museum of New Art, Pontiac 2005, 'Going Dutch: New photography from the Netherlands'

Selected publications
Flip Bool [et al.], Dutch eyes: nieuwe geschiedenis van de fotografie in Nederland, Zwolle: Waanders 2007
Marnix Goossens: diep licht, Rotterdam: Episode 2006
Dick Tuinder, Super natural: Elspeth Diederix & Marnix Goossens, Amsterdam: Artimo Foundation 2004

Selected public and corporate collections
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL • Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL • Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL • Collectie Koninklijke KPN, NL • De Nederlandsche Bank, NL • Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, NL • AMC Kunstcollectie, NL • Kunstcollectie Stichting Océ Kunstbezit, NL • Westdeutsche Genossenschaftszentralbank, Düsseldorf, DE

donated by the artist

Marnix Goossens belongs to a young generation of photographers working on the border of personal and applied photography. His work focuses on three main subjects: nature, portraits and still lifes. Most of his photographs depict scenes from nature. He creates highly detailed or consciously diffused images of trees, plants and landscapes; he directs his attention to floral beauty, intriguing situations, and nature found in the human habitat. In his portraiture, he experiments with eliciting different personalities from the same person. Goossens' aim is not to merely depict his subject's physical appearance but to create fictional characters. He uses various objects and items of clothing to bring out his subject's desired expressions. His models include not only himself, but also relatives and friends. Finding a particular garment often inspires him to shoot a new portrait. In photographs focusing on still lifes, Goossens contrasts functional everyday objects with other categories of objects and their settings, thus engaging them in new relationships of form and structure.

Marnix Goossens was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1999-2000.
He won the 'Aanmoedigingsprijs Fotografie' (NL) in 2001.

www.marnixgoossens.com