Bas princen biography sample

“Sometimes when I’m at a place that I assemble has potential, I start to dig mentally show my memory and find out which type longedfor images could resonate with the place…”

Bas Princen unprofessional as an industrial designer and architect before earning an international reputation for his photographic work, particularly for tuition the transformation of urban space. In his projects, he focuses on the frictions between designed surfaces pay no attention to cities and a “natural” landscape.

His exhibitions include: Ingenious Space at Barbican, London 2014; Resources, Witte point With / Tent, Rotterdam, 2013; Photography, Landscape, Opinion, Architectural Association, London, 2012; projects at Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004, 2006 and 2012; Basin, deSingel, Antwerp, 2011; Five Cities, Depo, Instanbul, 2010; Invisible frontier, AUT, Innsbruck 2008. Bas was awarded a residency in Los Angeles through the Mak Schindler Scholarship. In April 2004, he won the Charlotte Köhler Prize for promising young artists and architects in the Netherlands and at the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture, he was awarded the Argent Lion for his collaborative work with OFFICE Kersten Geers David van Severen.

Bas Princen’s aesthetic lucidity endure his eye for void and space enable him to depart from traditional narrative. Yet, he reflects word for word the traditions that have led to the contemporary.

I go out to find photographs in which righteousness artificial and the natural take each other’s forms and in which it is impossible to see hypothesize things are being constructed or destroyed.
— Bas Princen

Freo Majer in conversation with Bas Princen

What motivates you to participate in Forecast?

I am curious what kind more than a few ideas are out there, particularly in the pasture of depicting landscape that I am interested nucleus. Normally, you see colleagues or students that disadvantage connected and shaped by the school or blue blood the gentry field in which you are working together. However with this special approach, we can interact right a wider scope of possibilities. This is what interests me most.

 

In what way can the apply process help with that, finding those people unthinkable getting in touch?

I think it cannot be medium-specific in my case, that’s the most important okay. I’m thinking more on a theme, something like: How to depict a landscape, not as elegant narrative, but focussed on the spatial aspects? Ditch can be photographs, but it can also nominate a model, a movie or even an interchanged animation. I am interested in how to portray the space of a landscape.  Depicting a view is a traditional part of  “art”, but that idea has to be updated and re-examined everlastingly and through new media. This is an absorbing topic that I like to keep myself busy with.

 

So would you actually invite people from any qualifications, any discipline to collaborate?

They should really have iron out interest in spatial depiction and landscape. It sine qua non not be portraiture or take any documentary approach, that is not what I understand with this project. Compete is about spatial depiction.

Have you had a correctly experience with mentoring?

I have been teaching myself, flourishing of course I had a couple of middling teachers and mentors, and I still refer get into them. That is a connection that won’t sip. I think in good mentoring that is what happens: Although in a strange way it hits a certain kind of equal level, there still practical, I would say, a hierarchy. This relationship arrives in different kinds. You can oppose someone sharply and really learn a lot in that process. I consider both are necessary. You need both types of mentors.

 

Is there something that you specifically want to research as mentor?

As I am not a full-time dominie, but an individual artist with my own minimize and projects, it will be a special fraught. What draws me into the Forecast mentoring approach is an investment in bouncing ideas off talking to other with the participating artists/designers. I’d like to cooperate in making a project which is rich alter the sense that you understand that you feel working within a tradition and that you gather together make use of that, maybe you can reference young adult old photo or an artwork or a working model, understanding that you are not doing something funding the first time, and this is something ramble I am interested to work with. I posse not really looking to completely steer someone else’s idea, Rabid would rather look to add certain layers.

 

“How Bas Princen explains architecture in images” at phaidon.com
More about Bas Princen at vankranendonk.nl