Rommert Boonstra (1942)
Artist
Rommert BOONSTRA
Photography, Poet
Born in Groningen in 1942
Rommert Boonstra started out as an art critic, became a theater director, poet, professional foot traveler and finally photographer. All this plays a role in his staged images. Since 1980 Boonstra has frequently made scenes for the camera. His first stage was a cardboard box with one side removed. It was a theater of poverty. The actors were sticks and stones, shredded paper, wire, and other cheap and readily available materials. In the course of time, his stagings acquired more brilliance and allure.
Rommert Boonstra's tableaus suggest boundless spaces. Miniature stages are certainly the most poetic and imaginative form of staged photography, but just like in literary fairy tales, Boonstra holds small, venomous surprises in store for us in his sets. Doom and decay are never far away, no matter how beautifully disguised. Death and destruction can strike at any moment.
Boonstra sets his strongholds of theatricality against the spiritual aridity of this time. The iconoclasm is fought with a bombardment of images. But, as the images seem to say, in the end the same fate awaits us all. They put themselves into perspective after they have blown high from the tower. The cathedral can turn into a piece of paper again at any moment, the stone can become a stone again. Nothing is what it seems and sometimes it is. Boonstra wants the spaces he photographs to be overwhelming in the first place, but at the same time they must have something unreal. The photos are supposed to look grand and compelling, but on closer inspection they turn out to be made up of everyday objects; from broccoli to shrimp, from glass shards to fish heads. Boonstra looks for the double: it must be impressive and at the same time claim that it is nothing. Rommert Boonstra's photos remind us that people are figures in their own dreams.
Rommert Boonstra lives and works in Rotterdam and is self-taught.
Some Exhibitions:
Center Europeen de la Photographie, Paris
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Center Pompidou, Paris
Neue Gallery, Aachen
Gallery Torch, Amsterdam
Groninger Museum
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Kunstverein, Munich
FotoFest, Houston
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
Dutch Railway Museum, Utrecht
By:Arthur Brouwers
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