autobiografisch - autobiographical

/English/ 'the intersections of 1mm are quite autobiographical.' (Johan De Wilde, Particles p.68) 'Al die beelden vertrekken van een minutieus uitgewerkt basispatroon,
waarop De Wilde tijd en zijn herinnering loslaat. Stuk voor stuk hebben
deze afbeeldingen een sterk autobiografische achtergrond. Het onderzoek
naar de plaats van het zelf komt ook tot uiting in een mail art-project
waarvoor De Wilde naar alle landen van Europa een brief aan zichzelf
verstuurde.' (Edith Doove, 'Ruwe bolster', recensie over de projecten
van Larry Krone (crox 97) en Johan De Wilde (crox 98), De Standaard, 9
juni 1999) 

Dirk Peers (1957-2003). The lino-cuts are technically brilliant and well-organized, as Peers most often made his cuttings using a chessboard-pattern; the images combine symbolic and ritual elements, decorative patterns and fragments from the work of Ruth Mentens, his wife. The combination and endless repetition of all these elements offer a dark and rather esoteric selfconsciousness.  

Suenos oniricos, an installation by Frank Van den Eeckhout, part of and major contribution to the triptych Selfportraits (crox 16, May 1991), final project of the first crox-period. FF's contribution is a triptych within the triptych, each fragment of it a subtle construction basically in white or faded colors picturing a series of dreams, as the title suggests.

Hans van Heirseele (crox 2, crox 27): each painting is (or has the intention to be) a diary note.

Some of the confronting and just so often slightly absurd and comical selfportraits of Bart Baele are part of the BASICS 1 project (crox 110, November-December 2003).

Philippe Vandenberg's contribution to Open Deuren (Open Doors, crox 51, 1996) is a huge painting made with blood. For this series the artist eventually used his own blood.

Other autobiographic material is found in the work by Ron Huebner, a Canadian born artist (Vancouver) who spend a decade or two in Amsterdam. He died in Amsterdam on March 1st 2004, victim of a bike accident. crox 111, the december 2003 window entitled Jewels by Huebner was his last project. Most of the work of Huebner has a conceptual line-out, apart from the fact that it is amazingly well-made and quite diverse from a technical point of view. The jewels are a series of huge diamonds, or replicas rather. Inside each jewel is a sentence. One is from a New York cab driver, another from a female friend.

Most of the Liquids series by Karien Vandekerkhove (see crox-card NR 13) tends to be materialized as autobiographical material, but is not.

In quite a different way the drawings by Daniël Vandenbrande (crox 7/ June 1990) have no autobiographical intention at all, but try a different point of view and the drawings turn out to be a series of distorted autobio-writing.

As an issue the autobiography is at its largest in BORDERS by CarianaCarianne. Three editions document her crox projects: Borders (2004, a CD-rom), Dwelling Field (crox-card NR 35, 2006) and Borders (2006, crox-book NR 3). A confronting discourse on identity, dividing personality in two entities sharing one individual.

Brainbox2 unit 11: Adriaan Verwée, Dirk Zoete, Evert Defrancq. Een uit autobiografische elementen samengestelde legpuzzel. Installatie /in het door unit 10 veroorzaakte zwarte decor/ met videomateriaal en diaprojecties.