Jan Maarten Leupen and Zoe D. Cochia are reasearching the differences who made themself to who they are, trying to use these alterations, combining them. The Western perfection faced suddenly the Eastern European blemish, tight forms in fluoresced colours converged with timid lines in colour but strong in their strenght and naivity. Distinct opinions found each other on one canvas – naked – creating one statement through rebellion and acceptation. A dadaistic paradox invades their works, pain and humor walk hand in hand in their images.
JAN MAARTEN LEUPEN
(1972, Delft, Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist, graduated to the Art Academy for Fine Arts in The Hague in 1998.
His work is based on an absurdist point of view, searching to the beauty ideal by showing delicate vulnerabilities of it.
Jan Maarten Leupen embrasse the world through a voyeuristisch binocular, enstranged it in a new context by using humor and absurdism.
ZOE D. COCHIA (1962, Bucharest, Romania)
"I live not only through images, but also through words, words which I collect in poems. Not limited by any static barriers. In a contradiction of feelings which describe the romanian soul. Sadness and Bliss mixed together in a glass of wine. What people say about my work is that unexpected associations give my work an almost baroque feel through which drips the pain of loss. I’m fascineted by the details which show the hesitations as a poetical moment. I try to create new world by deforming the enviroment placing into it characters from others sides of the planet. The interpretation of the viewer is free, but I would like to make them conscienous of the existence of total different worlds and the collision between them."