video-installations
- Spring 2002 , video triptych
- Les Baigneurs 2002/2003 , video triptych
Baigneurs
...There's not much more to be seen than young people stepping into
the water, diving, swimming, drying themselves, etc. But it happens
amidst such pastoral grandeur; with so much calm and transcendence
that you have the impression you are looking at a marine in motion.
Slowly the viewer realises he's actually seeing an extreme variation
of the bathing motif in five centuries of art history: from the bathing
Hendrickje by Rembrandt to the bathing women by Renoir or Degas. The
difference is that the bathers of Brotherus, when they want to, can
disappear out of the water and the image, which provides them with
an unexpected degree of independence and privacy. ...
Marc Ruyters - De Tijd - 07/01/04
Spring
...The same atmosphere is to be noticed in the other work 'Spring',
three videos made out of a moving train or car, projecting images
of the passing landscapes of water and woods on just as many screens.
No human beings can be seen. These too become moving paintings, although
the speed makes them more fleeting than the 'baigneurs'. ...
Marc Ruyters - De Tijd - 07/01/04
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