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For his graduation from the Rietveld in 2005, Wouter Klein Velderman (Deventer, 1979) presented a small camp site on the square in front of the college. Eight real tents with real campers on real grass. In 2006, for Amsterdam’s alternative art fair, the Kunstvlaai, he glued hundreds of tents together into a colourful rug measuring thirty by forty metres. Klein Velderman is currently constructing a life-size truck cabin from bisonyl (lorry canvas). For the exhibition space at W139 where the current installation by Peter Vink and drawings by Jacobien de Rooij will remain on display, he is making a sculpture from tent fabric to fill the space inspired by, and named after the work of “Hieronymus” Bosch. The relation between influence and result on the artistic process is often an enigma. The work of Klein Velderman may look like that of Claes Oldenburg, but is influenced by Jeroen Bosch. Rene Daniels explicitly refers to Magritte but his paintings closely resemble those of Dufy. What does David Lynch see in Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’? What did Philip Guston see in Piero della Francesca, what does Iris Kensmil see in the mosaics of Ravenna? One of the tenets of Frans Oosterhof, under whom Wouter Klein Velderman studied at the Rietveld, is that there is a difference between the taste of looking and the taste of making, and that that’s good. Gijs Frieling, director W139
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