Originally DirtyBrown started out a painter and muralist halfway the nineties,
but after years of process he extended his workfield to VJ-ING,
printmaking, streetart and media arts. He prefers working with a broad arsenal of
media and a disregard of boundaries set to them.

The work itself investigates the relation between the personal and the outer world.
Or, rather, between the individual and our modern society and the discrepancy
between simple human happiness and fixed ideas such as duty or convention.
The question that could be affixed to the works in macro is:
How can you achieve simple happiness and how can you be a humanist person of integrity
both at the same time, and doesn't that go exactly against the grain of what our
society is asking of us today?

Throughout our choices between good, bad and worse, grey and black,
simple values have gone to the background. Is this a matter of "growing up" or
is something actually shifting in our society and conciousness?

By actively combining contemporary image culture with traditional craftsmanship
and new techniques, Dirtybrown is able to combine concept, aesthetics and
craftsmanship into works that are both contemporary as well as timeless.

As a VJ (visual jockey) and audiovisual artist he performs on a weekly basis
both in- and outside of his country since 2001. His shortfilms were a.o. seen
at the Akbank International Film Festival in Istanbul and the
Machida Museum of printed and media Arts in Machida/Tokyo.
His printed, painted and streetart works were placed and/or exhibited in Vienna, London, Paris,
Florence, Hangzhou (China), Kiriyu (Gunma/Japan), Shinjuku and Shibuya (Tokyo/Japan)
next to this his works are regularly seen on both regional and national broadcasts
of the national Dutch television network.

Dirty Brown Visuals
Is naast schilder ook actief binnen de streetart, de grafiek en de mediakunst.
Zijn werk gaat de relatie aan tussen binnen en buitenwereld.
Tussen het individu en de samenleving en de discrepantie
tussen menselijk geluk en plicht. De vraag die hierbij hoort is:
Wat is geluk en hoe ben je tegelijkertijd een integer en menselijk persoon.
En staat dat niet juist haaks op deze samenleving?
Door actief actuele beeldcultuur te combineren met oude (ambachtelijke) en nieuwe
technieken en door concept, ambacht en esthetiek samen te voegen
maakt hij werk dat zowel van deze tijd als tijdloos is.

Als vj en audiovisueel kunstenaar treedt hij op
in binnen- en buitenland. Zijn films waren onder andere te zien op
het Akbank International Film Festival in Istanbul (Turkije) en
het Machida Museum of printed and media arts in Tokyo (Japan).
Zijn grafiek- en schilderwerk was onder andere te zien in
hangzhou (china) en shibuya (tokyo/japan).
Daarnaast was zijn mediawerk meerdere malen te zien op de vpro.<

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