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Lique Schoot - Self-Portrait Artist
About
1969, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Lique Schoot is preoccupied with the Self-portrait in a multi disciplinary way since she graduated in 1997.
Lique Schoot: driven, manipulative and vulnerable
Summary text by Max Meijer (former Director of the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, co-owner TiMe Amsterdam)
Lique photographs herself every day since 2003 with an analogue miniature camera, casually and manually without any further aids. A film roll has 36 images, and Lique uses these film rolls as a kind of diary. Thus, every month she submits between 28 (February) and 31 images to the photo lab where these are developed. The prints are stored on a CD. In this manner she compiles a kind of retrospective diary or calendar of images. Lique further elaborates and edits these now digitized analogue images by computer, framing them optimally, one for each day. From that calendar of images she selects some that seem sufficiently interesting to her as a basis for her painted self-portraits. Although different in format, each of these is painted with a same technique, in very thin layers of oil paint. Thus, in her studio appears eventually a portrait that is the sum of these original images; the digitally processed analogue image selected, patiently transposed to canvas in very thin layers of oil paint.
While the observer first sees a striking almost photographically exact painted portrait, it also reflects a (painted) date of a calendar. A day from a life of images, images created in time. Lique is a strong woman, an artist with an admirable self-imposed and fascinating discipline, operating in the apparent constraints of her personal calendar, using the CD's with her photographs to guide her artistic acts. She seems like a kind of guardian of a grail of images, unfinished products from which she chooses and selects at will.
Lique is also a strict mistress of manipulation. She manipulates reality, foremost by isolating a piece of that reality, centred on herself with the lens of her camera. Her second manipulative act takes place on the computer screen, where frame, contrast, and light- and darkness, etc. of the original image are subjected to her strict requirements. And as if that were not sufficient, this process is followed by her ultimate image manipulation, when she lets the photographed image as it were explode on the canvas, sometimes very expansive to a large size, she is playing with the paint, using brushes and other tools, until she obtains the, for her, perfect final image. And if there is the good fortune that through a sale such a painted final image disappears for ever out of her life, her manipulative acts are still not exhausted and uses a final conceptual strategy; she replaces it in her calendar with a small canvas with the date referring to the sold self-portrait (even though I believe that those portraits are really dates in a calendar rather than paintings for Lique).
Thus, really, Lique manipulates, which is perhaps the most complex and brilliant of all, time itself. She turns from then to now and selects, at will, moments from piles of time. Then becomes now, old becomes new. Personal emotions, classical points of reference in time, are often modified, completely eliminated, just enlarged or are slightly hidden.
Besides all these manipulations, I think that there is yet another, quite feminine virtue visible in her work and that is vulnerability. Because I believe that it requires courage, to display so much of yourself in your work as an artist. She does not hesitate to show herself to you, literally as well as figuratively. Although Lique sees herself perhaps mainly as a conceptual artist, her being is unequivocally the central focus of her work for you as the observer. And Lique in person coincides for many of us largely with what she shows here on the walls. What I reflected about, musing about this artist, here in our midst: she is driven, manipulative and vulnerable. For an artist I believe that these are encouraging and positive qualifications.
Max Meijer, January 25, 2009 … Read More
- Location
- Arnhem, Netherlands
- Website
- http://www.liqueschoot.nl
Visual artist: photographs, paintings, objects and installations
Education
ArtEZ - Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands. Graduated in 1997.
Awards
2004 3rd Prize: Gaver Award, Waregem, BE
2003 2nd Prize: 13th Award Exhibition, Museum A. Blomme, Roeselare, BE
Nominations
2008 - Honorable Mention Hoppeland Painting Award Benelux and North-Pas de Calais, BE
2006 - Nominated for the Gaver Award, Waregem, BE
2005 - Nominated for the Marnixring Felix De Boeck Award, Drogenbos, BE
2001 - Nominated for an award in the 13th Exhibition for Awards in Painting, Boechout, BE
Selected Solo and Duo Exhibitions (cat. = catalogue)
2010 - Ill be your Mirror, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, NL
2009 - Visual Diaries, Museum Castle Wijchen, Wijchen, NL
2009 - Made in Arnhem - Office with a View, Essent/Spoorzicht Art & Design, Arnhem, NL (duo)
2009 - Room for Thoughts, Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL (duo)
2009 - Room for Thoughts, Mondriaan Tower/Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam, NL (duo)
2008 - Face to Face, Centre for Fine Arts, Arnhem, NL
2008 - The Visual Diaries installation, Centre for Fine Arts, Tiel, NL
2007 - Paintings, Mondriaan Tower/Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam, NL
2006 - Paintings, AKZO Nobel, Arnhem, NL
2006 - Somebody, Nobody and Everyone, Pulchri Studio,The Hague, NL
2005 - Self-Portraits, Neue Galerie Comma, Gera, DE
2005 - Somebody, Nobody and Three, Centre for Fine Arts, Arnhem, NL
2003 - Recent works, Gallery de Natris, Nijmegen, NL
2002 - This is the News, The Shed, Nijmegen, NL
2001 - Self-Portraits - Photographs, Movie House, Arnhem, NL
1999 - I Wanna be Loved by You, Gallery Contessa, Arnhem, NL
Selected Group Exhibitions (cat. = catalogue)
2011 New Members, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2010 - Portraits of the 21st Century, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, NL
2010 - 'O Fortuna!', Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL
2010 - Realism 10, Art Fair for Figurative Art, PTA terminal, Amsterdam, NL (cat.)
2010 - DUTCH GIRLS, Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL
2010 - DUTCH GIRLS, Mondriaan Tower/Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam, NL
2010 - Women Painting Women, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, US
2008 - Nothing=Sure 200th Anniversary, Mondriaan Tower/Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam, NL (cat.)
2008 - 11th International Hoppeland Painting Award, Benelux & Nord-Pas de Calais,
Guest Chapel, Poperinge, BE (cat.)
2007 - Seduction, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, NL
2007 - Nord Art 2007, Buedelsdorf, KIC, DE (cat.)
2007 - IVth Tashkent International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Tashkent, UZ
2006 - Contemporary Christmas Cribs and More, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, NL
2006 - Beyond the Black; Laureate Selection for the Gaver Awards 1982 - 2004,
BE-PART, Waregem, BE (cat.)
2006 - Gaver Award 2006, Cultural Centre De Schakel, Waregem, BE
2006 - The Portrait, Gallery Judy Straten, Grubbenvorst, NL
2005 - Marnixring Award Felix De Boeck 2005, Museum Felix De Boeck, Drogenbos, BE
2005 - European Art Biennial, Museum of Rawicz Land, Rokosowo, PL (cat.)
2004 - Exhibition of Award-Winners from the Last 10 Years, Museum A. Blomme, Roeselare, BE
2004 - Europe and Identity, Rokosowo, Museum of Rawicz Land, PL (cat.)
2004 - Gaveraward 2004, Waregem, Cultural Centre De Schakel, BE (cat.)
2004 - European Meetings Leszno 2004, Town Hall Gallery, PL (cat.)
2003 - New Works, Centre for Fine Arts Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
2003 - 13th Award Exhibition, Museum A. Blomme, Roeselare, BE
2002 - Contemporary Art from the Provinces, Inter Art Sonsbeek Art & Design, Arnhem, NL
2002 - Great Names, Small Prices, Centre for Fine Arts, Nijmegen, NL
2001 - 13th Exhibition for Award in Painting, Municipal Library, Boechout, BE (cat.)
2000 - Your Choice, Gallery The Yellow Rider (De Gele Rijder), Arnhem, NL
2000 - The Body, Art House 13, Velp, NL
2000 - Hotel, Centre for Fine Arts, Nijmegen, NL (cat.)
1999 - Frischer Matjes, Centre for Fine Arts, Nijmegen, NL
1998 - Paintings, Gallery Modus Vivendi, Amsterdam, NL
Collections / in stock
- Collections of companies and for private individuals in The Netherlands and abroad
- Collection of Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam, NL
- Collection of OHRA, Arnhem, NL
- Collection of Essent N.V., NL (cat.)
- Municipal archives, The Hague, NL (cat.)
- Fine Art Centre, Utrecht, NL
- Museum of Rawicz Land, Rokosowo, PL
- Work in stock: Centre of Fine Arts, Nijmegen, NL
- Work in stock: Gallery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL
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Events
For my latest events, take a look at: http://www.lique-schoot.eu
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The Valkhof Museum - Group Exhibition O Fortuna!
October 9 2010 - January 9 2011
This Group Exhibition shows Contemporay Art and Design.
►Participant artists: Arno Arts, Lobke Burgers, Rosemin Hendriks, Floris Kaayk, Gerard Koek, Mirjam Kuitenbrouwer, Roland Schimmel, Andrea Stultiens, Levi van Veluw, Lisa Vieten, Frank van der Weide, Albert Van Der Weide, Lique Schoot a.o.
Curator: Tiziana Nespoli 'Art & Science Exhibition(ist)'.
►On December 12 there will be a catalogue presentation at the CBK, Nijmegen ►Especially for this exhibition I made a Site Specific Installation, take a look at http://liqueschoot.exto.org/site/index/14515633_Museum-Het-Valkhof.html
The Valkhof Museum
Kelfkensbos 59
6511 TB Nijmegen
The Netherlands
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REALISM 11 - Fair for Figurative Art
January 13 - January 16 2011
Open: 11.00 - 19.00
PTA Terminal
Piet Heinkade 27
Amsterdam … Read More
Exhibitions
2011 - 'O Fortuna!', The Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, NL (cat.)
2011 - 'New Members', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2011 - Realism 11: 'Art Fair for Figurative Art, Amsterdam, NL
2011 - 'The Best of 2010', Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL
2011 - 'Blue-Yellow-Black Provincial Art Collection', ACEC Apeldoorn, NL
2011 - 'Forever Unforgettable', Sint-Christianapark, Dikkelvenne, BE (cat.)
2011 - 'Lique Schoot', UMC St. Radboud, Nijmegen, NL (solo)
2011 - 'Soundscape', Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL
2010 - 'Portraits of the 21st Century', Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, NL
2010 - Realism 10: 'Art Fair for Figurative Art', Amsterdam, NL (cat.)
2010 - 'I'll be your Mirror', Pulchri Studio, The Hague, NL (solo)
2010 - 'Women Painting Women', Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, USA … Read More
