Nanon Morsink

Nanon Morsink - Adam -Longstocking Photo

Artist Biography: Nanon Morsink is a Dutch artist born in 1973, whose work focuses on abstract and geometric painting. His style is characterized by the repetition of shapes and lines, as well as the use of vibrant and contrasting colors. Rhythmic patterns and symmetries can be seen in his works, suggesting a sense of movement and depth. Morsink has received numerous accolades and awards throughout his career, including the City of Ootmarsum Painting Prize in 2005, the City of Harderwijk Painting Prize in 2009, and the Laren City Painting Prize in 2012. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai and the Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam.Morsink's work is inspired by the De Stijl movement of the Netherlands, which was characterized by simplicity and abstract geometry. However, his work is also influenced by popular culture, graphic design, and electronic music. In many of his pieces you can see references to video game culture, which gives it a futuristic and avant-garde look. In short, Nanon Morsink is a Dutch artist known for his abstract and geometric painting style, characterized by the repetition of shapes and lines, as well as the use of vibrant, contrasting colors. He has received numerous awards and exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. His work is inspired by the De Stijl movement and popular culture, giving it a futuristic and avant-garde look.

 

The first long stocking was created for a solo exhibition Corcordia Hengelo (NL) in 2011: "Hendrika", a pair of knitted clogs joined by knitted stockings. stockings. This provoked a lot of sensations in the visitors of the exhibition, which made me fantasize about a whole series of these "long stockings", each with its own character and story. own character and history. My thoughts turned to a variant "kinky" variant with high heels and fishnet stockings, a Ko-de-ranger variant with huge wellington boots. Or did my imagination go too far? At that time I was asked for an exhibition at the RABO-theater in Hengelo (The Netherlands). (What could be better than these characters in a theater? So I started I started weaving, for almost a year and a half. One character after the other came up: Marie- Antoinette, Seyx Sadie, Pink little Lucy, Three Legged Sally, and many, many others. others. They all had some humor in them, those absurdly long, stretched legs but at the same time terribly tragic. terribly tragic at the same time. And that combination made them very interesting to me. So interesting that I wanted the stories that were my fantasy to be visible to others. That's why I asked my colleague/photographer Jan Beerling my colleague/photographer Jan Beerling to initiate a project together to photograph these photograph these long stockings worn by flesh and blood people. A co-production was initiated! a co-production! Models were sought, a make-up artist was brought in, sketches were made. sketches were made. And there were photo shoots, lots of photo shoots. We created an unconventional unconventional photographic series; an indeterminate world of characters, sometimes quirky, sometimes sometimes quirky, sometimes very quiet and subdued, each telling their own story, but also leaving space for story but also leave room for the viewer's experience.