Evert Bongers - Mona Lisa 4 - Vendu

Kunstwerkgegevens:
Mona Lisa 12012Digital Lambda print77x53 cmEdition: 1/5+2APMounted on Diasec (dibond+plexiglass)Artist: Evert Bongers

Fotograaf Evert  Bongers maakt sinds 2011 experimentele portretten van de  Mona Lisa.

In zijn intuïtieve experimenten tracht hij het mysterie van de  Mona Lisa te doorgronden, te bezweren en zichtbaar te maken.

De gedaantes die de Mona Lisa aanneemt tonen zich van alle tijden, door alle kunststromingen heen.

De portretten tonen een mysterie dat zich niet laat vangen, echter  een tip van de sluier wordt opgelicht.

Namelijk, de zinderende overgave aan en de intieme verhouding met de fotograaf, als ware zij van vlees en bloed.

De fotograaf 's fascinatie wordt  beloond, deze voelbare intimiteit is  betoverend.

De Mona Lisa series zijn in 2012 en 2014 geexposeerd bij galerie Photology in Milaan en Noto in de expositie Mona Lisa Smile, samen met  

Vic Muniz, Martin Parr, Elisabetta Benassi, Andrea Jemolo, Mario Cresci, Davide Bramante, Matthew Pillsbury en Yasumasa Morimura.

curriculum vitae Evert Bongers (1957 Stein, the Netherlands)lives and works in Maastricht.After completing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, he worked several years as a photographer for art institutions and galleries.He makes, among others, reports of: Marlene Dumas, Bertrand Lavier, Martin Kippenberger, A.R. Penck, William Wegman, Christian Boltanski and Mimmo Palladino.Bongers develops more and more as an art photographer, wins prizes and begins to exhibit his work nationally and internationally.Besides that, he works in the eighties and nineties on projects for Stuyvesant in Cuba, Ballantines whisky in Scotland and PhilipsLighting in the Netherlands.In recent years, he mainly focuses on art photography.Evert Bongers signs in 2012 a 5-year contract with gallery Photology, resulting in exhibitions, together with: Vic Muniz, Martin Parr, Elisabetta Benassi, Andrea Jemolo, Mario Cresci, Davide Bramante, Matthew Pillsbury and Yasumasa Morimura. 

education

 

 

 

1976 - 1980 Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht

 

awards 

 

Honorable mention The Lucie Awards, New York

Nominee Noortman Art Prize, Maastricht

First prize Los Angeles Art Competition

Merit Award Current Works, Kansas City

Finalist Focus International Event, San Francisco

Finalist Ferguson Award, San Francisco

Finalist New York Art Competition

Honorable mention Zagreb Photo Awards 

 

exhibitions 

 

2017 - PCNW 21st juried (Sandra Phillips, curator emeritus, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) exhibition

2016 - Gallery S&H de Buck, Ghent

2015 - Gallery Géraldine Banier, Paris

2013 - Gallery Photology, Noto

2012 - Gallery Photology, Milan

2011 - OLV basiliek, Maastricht

2010 - Het Stadslab, Sittard

2008 - De Timmerfabriek, Maastricht

2006 - Art Festival, Maastricht

2005 - Los Angeles Art Fair

2004 - Art festival, Maastricht

2000 - SCP, Kansas City

1999 - De Vishal, Haarlem

1998 - Photo Festival, Naarden

1996 - Theatre, Beek

1995 - Center for Photographic Art, Carmel

1993 - AHA gallery, Maastricht

1992 - Art 54 gallery, New York City

1991 - Museum Den Tempel, Sittard

1990 - Travelling exhibition, Europe

1989 - Close-Up gallery, Antwerp

1988 - International Photo Exhibition, Zagreb

1988 - Art Center Oranjerie, Roermond

1987 - Photo Festival, Amsterdam

1986 - AHA gallery, Maastricht

1985 - Art Center Hanenhof, Geleen

1985 - Trajecta Contemporary Art, Maastricht

1984 - Trajecta Contemporary Art, Maastricht

1983 - Library, Maastricht

1982 - Terborg Castle

1981 - Art Academy gallery, Maastricht

 

collections

 

 

Several private collections, Europe, USA

Dream Line, Maasmechelen

Chamber of Commerce, Maastricht

Euro Graphics Center, Beek

Walram College, Sittard

S.B.K. Zeeland

S.B.K. De Nobelaer

S.B.K. Utrecht

P.B.C. Houten

 

publications

 

Trajecta

Zagreb Photo Awards

Current Works

Art Photography Belgium

Megazine

Exit Magazine

Legal Stuff

Foto

Focus

Best of 2009 Photography Anthology

Financieel Dagblad

Volkskrant

NRC

Metro Greece