Nemo Jantzen Portrait Paintings
Dutch, b. 1974
Nemo Jantzen plays with focus, creating a sense of depth, thus bringing into question the act of voyeurism and the anticlimactic and revelatory nature of privacy.
In his hyperrealistic work, Nemo Jantzen is much inspired by film and tries to capture details of highly enlarged objects or photographic moments in time. These scenes portray often decadent and noir-style subject matters with a story to tell - like a movie still with an open ending - deliberately avoiding eye contact that could give away the personality of the painted subjects, as to not interfere with the imagination of the spectator. This compells us to think and imagine what has happened or what will happen next. Intrigued by light and the mystery of darkness, Jantzen plays with focus, creating a sense of depth and connecting the image and viewer through the inclusion of the optical vocabulary of cinematography, and the allusion to the constraints of the instant polaroid.
In his mixed-media body work of painted ceramics on wood, Nemo Jantzen wishes to capture and address the times we live in. In particular the voyeurism of hidden cameras and video surveillance that have become accepted in our society, creating awareness of this invasion of privacy for our own perverted need to watch and to know everything. In the name of safety and control, and fed by the media, this imagery has changed into entertainment and pleasure. He depicts public figures that became common good and through a language of blurred and pixelated imagery, photographic stills and scenes that can tell whole stories in one glance. In these pieces, built up out of hand-painted ceramic tiles which he uses as building blocks, that by themselves are nothing more than that, but together form pixelated shapes that merely suggest an image that our imagination transforms into flowing and complete figures. The missing details and shortage of information stimulates our imagination to fill in the blanks and create the excitement. With large-scale images built out of hundreds of small images; stories incapsulated in glass spheres the work simply keeps repeating to the viewers. In a word : “The closer you look, the less you see”.(Biography provided by K plus Y Gallery)
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Artist: Nemo Jantzen
Blue Blood II
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Nails & Thread on wood, Comes in plexiglass box
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The medium of thread necessitates the use...
Category
2010s Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Paintings
Materials
Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Plywood
Space Odyssey
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Glass spheres on wood
Unique glass spheres are arranged to create a dynamic portrait of a young woman. The glass spheres contain imagery of astronauts and space-related media, crea...
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2010s Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Resin, Wood, Plywood, Color
Blue Blood
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Nails & Thread on wood, Comes in plexiglass box
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The medium of thread necessitates the use...
Category
2010s Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Paintings
Materials
Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Plywood
Like A Star
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in New York, NY
Nails & Thread on wood, Comes in plexiglass box
Thread is expertly wrapped around embedded nails to create a beautiful portrait of a woman. The medium of thread necessitates the use...
Category
2010s Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Paintings
Materials
Thread, Plexiglass, Wood, Plywood
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Find a wide variety of authentic Nemo Jantzen portrait paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of portrait paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of pink, purple, blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Nemo Jantzen in cord, thread, plastic and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Nemo Jantzen portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 40 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of America Martin, Ger Doornink, and Mitzy Renooy. Nemo Jantzen portrait paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $17,500 and tops out at $46,000, while the average work can sell for $23,000.