DESIDERIUM: RECENS COSMICOS
In My Mother's Arms, 2006. Chris Diedericks.
Absence: A New Universe
Chris Diedericks
Cultivaria, Paarl
21 – 26 September 2006
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My latest works still focus on masculinity and the male body, but in this main body of work, I specifically investigate absence, death, friendship, grief and illness. I have tried to overlay images, emotions, feelings and sensations iconically in textured juxtapositions of visual experiences. These concepts are coalesced and separated continuously in my work. As an artist working in almost all visual art media, specifically my interest in photography and printmaking are explored in the work for DESIDERIUM: RECENS COSMICOS. I am fascinated by an interdisciplinary approach and always search for new solutions – it is an integral part of my personal creative process. I have failed my own process and myself if I merely regurgitate former imagery. I never want two shows to “look” the same.
It is also only recently that I started working with Silvertone International, a fine art printing company specialising in archival pigment printing and hand-printed photography. My digital prints are now of an archival quality printed on 100% acid free paper. Finally, this new exiting way of making prints, is proudly taking its rightful place alongside traditional methods such as etching and lithography.
My work is often a visual blow carefully calculated to disturb and calm at the same time. I almost always try to include irony and humour in my work and hope to grip the viewer’ imagination by using this strategy. Internal struggles and ongoing cultural battles are visually documented in my work, and become a narrative for my attempt to make a meaningful difference in the mostly inexorable (and arguably conservative) society in our country at large.
Chris Diedericks,
September 2006
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Posted 30 April 2007, www.chrisdiedericks.co.za, author: Chris Diedericks.
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