Rob Scholte - Large screen print: Night Light (Philips logo) - 2007

Large screen print by Rob Scholte. Title: Night light (Philips logo). Year: 2007. Circulation: 108/111. Top dimensions: H121 x w80cm. Dimensions: H70 x W70cm. The work is signed by the artist at the bottom right. The authenticity of this work is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


After purchase, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be shipped via Postnl. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.
Robert Egbert Gerardus (Rob) Scholte (Amsterdam, June 1, 1958) is a Dutch artist.
Biography
Life and work until 1994
In his youth, Scholte lived in Castricum, Doorn, Heiloo and Egmond aan den Hoef. At the age of 17, he left his parental home through the attic window. From 1977 to 1982 he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Afterwards he was part of the artist collective W139, where he made his debut with Sandra Derks in 1982 with the 'masterpiece' Rom 87 (now in the collection of the Cultural Heritage Agency, on loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), a series of free-style painted variations on a book for children's coloring pages. He would replace this style with meticulously painted works that he began exhibiting in 1984 in the newly established gallery The Living Room in Amsterdam.
In 1986 he caused a stir with the painting, Utopia (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), which quoted Manet's Olympia. However, he had replaced Olympia and her handmaiden with wooden dolls. It turned out that he did not come up with this idea himself, but took it from an obscure postcard that he found by chance. Scholte responded by copying the newspaper article in which he was accused of plagiarism, a literal quote from half a newspaper page. With How to Star, a solo exhibition at Boijmans Van Beuningen, paintings from 1983-1988, Scholte received both praise and criticism. Scholte's works were on display at the Documenta in 1987 and in 1990 he was allowed to decorate the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
In 1991 he met Micky Hoogendijk with whom he started a relationship. He made her director of his company and on May 31, 1994 they married in the RoXY house temple.
Also in 1991, Rob Scholte BV was commissioned for a 1200 square meter wall and ceiling painting at the Huis Ten Bosch Resort in Nagasaki, Japan. Scholte worked with a large number of assistants on the painting entitled Après nous le déluge, about the constant recurrence of war in history. Its opening was to take place on August 9, 1995, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, but had to be postponed due to an attack on Scholte.
From 1993 to 1999, Scholte was a teacher at the Kassel Art Academy.