Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
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”.to
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Artist: Nemo Jantzen
Face to Face
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Face to Face by Nemo Jantzen is a meticulously handmade artwork, crafted from over 2,000 images of film photography, iconic movie scenes, classic movie posters, and Hollywood legends...
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2010s Op Art Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
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Epoxy Resin, Wood, Photographic Film
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Copacabana
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Mixed media by Nemo Jantzen. Handmade resin domes on board. Introducing a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, where music, memory, and art collide. High-Quality Craftsmanship. This is more th...
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2010s American Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
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Epoxy Resin
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Cream
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Born and raised in The Hague in 1970, Nemo Jantzen then studied art, design and photography at the RTO in Rotterdam and moved to Antwerp to work as a creative director and billboard ...
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2010s Pointillist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
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Cream Black
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Mixed media by Nemo Jantzen. Handmade resin domes on board.
Born and raised in The Hague in 1970, Nemo Jantzen then studied art, design and photography at the RTO in Rotterdam and m...
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2010s Contemporary Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
Materials
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Incognito
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Handmade resin domes on board with unparalleled craftsmanship by Nemo Jantzen. Every inch of this piece is made by hand, with careful attention to detail. "Paradise" is a stunning pi...
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2010s Photorealist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
Materials
Epoxy Resin
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Bottoms Up
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Handmade resin domes on board with unparalleled craftsmanship by Nemo Jantzen. Every inch of this piece is crafted by hand, with careful attention to detail. "Bottom's Up" is a stunn...
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2010s American Realist Nemo Jantzen Portrait Photography
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Photographic Film
Price Upon Request
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