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Icarus: Paintings by Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge

daredevil

it felt as if he was made out of gold

his head rested upon his shoulders
weightless, his father called for him
but Icarus seemed hypnotised
lost in a curve of endless blue
the sun in his eyes

as if he was made out of gold

“I’m a bird”, he must have thought
as feathers whirled round
his head was in a spin
never revealed
floating in blue

he was made out of gold

his candour called out loud
but was there need for such a cry?

made out of gold

a wedded couple couldn’t have been
more together and apart in such a scene
never again did something
come in-between Icarus
and his dream

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This video about Joost de Jonge was directed by Juri Koll and features art critic/curator Peter Frank. It was produced by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.

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Joost de Jonge

Joost de Jonge is a widely exhibited Dutch artist with work in a wide range of international collections. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and ’s-Hertogenbosch, and at the Universitat de Barcelona. He earned his BFA in painting with honors at the School of the Arts in Utrecht, followed by an artist residency at the Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth in Callosa d’en Sarrià, Spain.

In 2008 he began publishing catalogues of his work. In 2011 he initiated the Ekphrasis Project with his book The Ekphrasis Project: Oceanen van Kleur, inviting art critics, art historians, and poets to respond to his paintings with original writings. In 2014 the series became an online publication, and in 2015 he produced his first e-book with its own domain at paintedpoetry.org: Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics—an ekphrastic notion. The collaborative project flourished with contributions from across Europe as well as from important American poets and writers.

His photos and poems have been featured in Dutch magazines, In 2014 the art critic and curator Peter Frank interviewed him for a YouTube video titled “Joost de Jonge: A Life of Art,” directed by Juri Koll and produced by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.

Author: Joost de Jonge Tags: painting Category: Visual Art and Visual Poetry March 17, 2017

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