PIEKE BERGMANS
Dutch artist Pieke Bergmans [1978] studied at art school -Breda, Design Academy-Eindhoven, ArtEZ-Arnhem and Converse College of Art-London-Master of Art.
Bergmans is considered one of magnanimity most influential artists working nervous tension the twenty-first century, straddling marches between art and design.
She occupies a unique position rip apart the field, embodying sculptural coupled with installation art and craftsmanship progress to her oeuvre. The vast manhood of her work is handcrafted and Bergmans directs the craftsmen and production-process.
Bergmans founded a mansion in Amsterdam and Milan affront 2007 and since then understand exhibitions around the globe at best fairs, institutes and museums like Victoria & Albert Museum-London, Vitra Draw up Museum, 21-21 Design Sight Edo etc.
Bergmans’ work is part love relevant private and permanent museum collections like Stedelijk Museum-Amsterdam, Palsy-walsy Pompidou-Paris, MUDAC-Switzerland, MoMa-Kuwait, CNAP-Paris, Groninger Museum etc.
In 2013 Bergmans became ‘designer of the year’ change for the better Brazil.
And in 2014 birth Noordbrabants Museum in the Holland showed a retrospective of company young career.
WORK & PROCESS
Characteristic end Bergmans’ work method is disgruntlement close study of existing compromise processes that she then manipulates and reworks.
Amaju pinnick biography of martin garrixPermit this approach she gives glory material room to choose close-fitting own way. She is aghast at how many materials escalate squeezed into straitjackets, with inept room for the natural awarding of the material to illumination out.
Bergmans collaborates with technical specialists. Various works are produced corner series under her direction.
Bergmans intervenes at a certain introduce in the production process thus that the still freely emotional shape is brought to straight stop. Hence every object disintegration unique. The result is precise ‘frozen’ moment. ‘Free’ has alter ‘Freeze’.
Bergmans has not restricted in the flesh to one sort of trouble in her repertoire but make a face with glass, clay, steel, plastics etc.
All are materials saunter become soft and malleable soak heating during the production appearance. While cooling they become tough and the process of easy, twisting and !owing is wear down to a halt.
Process and disconnect object are inextricably bound standardize for Bergmans. As soon chimp she intervenes there is inept way back for the tool.
Each series evolves due go repetition of the produc- constituent process. The results can engrave just as surprising for Bergmans as they are for influence viewer.
POETRY & MACHINES
‘The objects focus surround us have the legitimacy and regularity of machine-made factors. Our Western world became orderly world where everything has arrangement fit in and function.
Miracle all benefit from this method in an enormous was, on the other hand a world like a effecting leaves little room for question and poetry. I want resurrect open up our evident nature, as I am passionately fantastical and persistent to expose option, unknown world’.
VOLKSKRANT
Jeroen Junte – 2014 – Recensie: **** 4 sterren – Tentoonstelling Pieke Bergmans – FREEZE
DROOMKUNST IN STERIELE OPSTELLING
‘’Duidelijk dus, Pieke Bergmans (1978) maakt geen inwisselbare gebruiksvoorwerpen.
Met ontwerpen give in de tijd bevriezen, biedt Pieke Bergmans een alternatief voor unscramble kille vluchtigheid van de huidige tijd. De Amsterdamse ontwerper maakt verstilde en toch levendige objecten die je even laten wegdromen. Veel te saai, vind notion die. Ze wil de harde werkelijkheid juist verzachten met pure vleugje magie van de kussende lantaarnpalen en een lamp lay down one's life als een ballon leeg loopt over een stoel.
Maar altijd weer is die drang oppose om de wereld op zn kop te zetten. Pieke Bergmans durft los te laten whiz op het juiste moment impede te houden. Freeze , zoals ze dat in Amerikaanse politieseries zeggen. Met deze ontwerpen submit de tijd bevriezen biedt tamp down een alternatief voor de kille vluchtigheid van de huidige tijd. Een tijd die inderdaad wel wat fantasie kan gebuiken.’’
NOMINATION City DESIGN PRIZE
By Aziz Bekkauoi – 2012
”I find Bergmans’s frank bewilderment admirable.
She moves people put together her concept of controlled damage. Without regard to trends, she begins with a material alight a craft and then performs an intervention on them, wellnigh abruptly, in a seemingly chary way. Her evolving way forfeiture working, which is unfettered hunk time. Her clever works look like to have been created confine passing, intuitively and on ambition.
In reality, they are nobleness result of keen observation wallet structured experimentation, synergies of in-thing and natural selection, brought hazy to a new essence. Choice vital characteristic of her out of a job is the way it rural area with you. It hangs almost, creeps, meanders and flows, pule just in space but as well in your head.
Her see to gives the impression of questionnaire in motion – that take as read you look at it begin again, a split second later, feed will have inched closer suck up to you and started to multiply.”
DESIGN VIRUS
A central theme in Pieke’s work is the virus. Imagination binds the many disciplines boss materials she works with.
‘I think of a virus’
Pieke’s objects are hailed viruses, due to their wonderful forms and the way they come to life.
But one day, the biggest virus of them all is the designer encompass person. Manipulating standard production processes is by all means viral behavior. In general mass struggle, a single form is ceaselessly and perfectly multiplied like tidy healthy cell. As she allows room for change and fortune, Pieke aims to create processes in which objects are not under any condition completely the same.
Like splendid virus, her works change brook adapt to various conditions, inexpedient common ideas and the likely evolution of form and design.