The work of BIKKEL is autobiographical. She works in transparent layers or with transparent material, for example with glass. Curaçao is her native island and her works have Papiamentu names. Many of her works have a direct or indirect link with Curaçao. Bikkel writes poems incorporated into her oil paintings. You can find them in the marge of the paintings. In her glass objects, Bikkel mostly processes metal. This use is a metaphor for her homesickness to her native island Curaçao.
About Bikkel’s glass: The spontaneous radiant colours and the whirling compositions are the special characteristics of her glass objects. The addition of metal also causes uncontrolled bubbles and very fine metal fabrics.
About Bikkel’s oil paintings: The direct touch and the certainty with which fields and colours are applied, are characteristic for her oil paintings. Besides this Bikkel makes space for spontaneity and she exploits the joy that arises through the use of various materials and the reactions that consequently arise.
BIKKEL
Contemporary Fine Art Artist: Glass, Oil Paint, Bronze and Monumental
title: B Ed (Bachelor of Education)
institute: Willem de Kooning Academy
judicium: exceptional
place: Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Address and Studio: A.Romein-Verschoorkade 42 / 3137 TS Vlaardingen / The Netherlands
t: +31 (0)10 4744370 / +31 (0)6 51150346
Manager – Artist Curator
Gallery Kunst aan de KADE Rotterdam e.o.
p/a COOPvaert, Blaak 776, 3011 TA Rotterdam
Nomination :
Climate Prize Vlaardingen 2009
Award:
For the Biënnales promotion in the World 2007
Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea Florence, Italie
Bikkel was Treasurer of the dFBa 2007.
Sponsoring by:
Contribution Municipality Vlaardingen 2009 design sketch 3 glass objects Centre Vlaardingen
World Art Vision 2008 sponsoring by Speedmark Transportation / Amsterdam
Biënnale Florence 2007 sponsoring by Stichting Fonds Schiedam Vlaardingen e.o.
Articles:
BIKKELbooks:
BIKKELBuKi '09
BIKKELBuKi5 2008
BIKKELBuKi4 2007
BIKKELbook3 2006
BIKKELbook all love 2005
BIKKELbook for Andrew 2004
Poems book Academy time 2003
Articles:
BIKKELcalendar:
2009
2008
Lecture of Bikkel:
Cultural Centre HOLLANDIA, Vlaardingen, 2009
Exhibitions of BIKKEL:
AmsterdamWhitneyGallery, NEW YORK, Sept 2010
AmsterdamWhitneyGallery, NEW YORK, Sept 2009
The Curacao MUSEUM, Willemstad, CURACAO, 2009
4e Glaskunsttentoonstelling Kasteel Cannenburg, Vaassen, 2009
Antillenhuis, Den Haag, 2009
Florence Biennale Revisited in Den Haag, The Hague, 2009
World Art Vision, Cancun, MEXICO, 2008
The Curacao MUSEUM, Willemstad, CURACAO, 2008
GemeenteMUSEUM, Maassluis, The Netherlands, 2008
BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE DELL'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Florence, ITALY, 2007
Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, CHINA, 2005
Photobook of exhibitions of Bikkel:
Review (3)
“The painter BIKKEL playfully re-interprets nautical scenes, (featuring the nude character Poseidon) injecting them with legendary figures and a spiritual significance with a masterful drip technique and multi-colored, shimmering washes to imbue the image with an aquatic sensation”
“ " There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting." Robert Rauschenberg once said. Contemporary artist Bikkel mythologizes the everyday in sweeping brushstrokes and exuberant hues. Working in oil on linen, Bikkel playfully re-interprets nautical scenes, injecting them with legendary figures and a spiritual significance. Combining figuration and abstraction, Bikkel's work provides an aesthetically unique viewpoint on contemporary life and its effect on the natural world”
Ruthie Tucker
Executive Director- Curator, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY 10001
“……….You are indeed one of our most important Contemporary Masters!…”
Ruthie Tucker
Executive Director- Curator, Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY 10001