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NEW ARTISTS! Kaagman & Han, by Blind Angle on Jul 3, 2008 11:41:14 GMT 1, Dear All

We are very happy to announce a couple of new artists now featured on Blind Angle. One is a true street art pioneer from the Netherlands and the other does not have anything to do with Street Art at all and she is originally from South Korea, but lives in Belgium. The two are Hugo Kaagman and Eva Han.

Here is a bit about the two:

Hugo Kaagman:

Hugo Kaagman was born in Haarlem, Holland in 1955. From 1973 to 1976 he studied social geography at the University of Amsterdam. To wards the end of the seventies he got involved in the punk movement; at that time the premises at 62 Sarphatistraat, where he lived and worked up until 1998, were broken into by squatters. This was the place where in 1977 the Koecrandt, the first punk newspaper of the Netherlands, was published. In collaboration with others Hugo Kaagman also set up a number of galleries, including Anus gallery in 1977.
Hugo Kaagman makes stencils of his pictures, mostly traditional motifs from different cultures, which he then combines to form larger representations. After initially having sought his inspiration elsewhere, he discovered Holland and developed his own contemporary version of Delft blue tiles. This Delft blue publication is a survey of Kaagman’s blue and white period, also known as Kaagware, and forms just one item from his massive oeuvre. In 1983 Hugo Kaagman received his first official commission from the municipality of Amsterdam: spraying a fence in Waterlooplein. In 1987 he painted the entrance to the Tropenmuseum. In 1992 he made his first Delft blue mural: the Eerste Leliedwarsstraat. After this in 1993 came the most extensive painting until then: a 65-meter-long mural in the West Terminal of Schiphol Airport. Since then Hugo Kaagman has created a great many murals at home and abroad.

He has developed his own graffiti style since 1969. In his early period, he used various elements from the punk and reggae cultures in his work. Until 1985 he was mainly active as a graffiti artist in Amsterdam’s city center. His murals and paintings are realized by means of stencils and airbrush. Typical of his work is the symmetry of the composition and the repetition and mirroring of the image. Kaagman’s work reflects a particular concern with Western and non-Western cultures. During his travels in Morocco and Senegal, among other countries, he discovered motifs, traditional patterns and handicraft forms that are specific to the cultures of these nations. Exploring other cultures made Kaagman aware of his own culture and he started to research motifs that are typically Dutch. He feels strongly that these should be preserved and combines them with contemporary and foreign motifs. Kaagman’s work is also a vehicle for his ironic comment on political or contemporary events. The most distinctive characteristic of Kaagman’s work of the past decade is its blue color. He plans to extend and deepen his study of the clichés of different cultures to come to a survey of his findings and publish and expose this to the decision makers of the European community.

Hugo Kaagman has exhibited extensively since the early seventies. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and has also participated in group shows all over Europe and in North America. In 2008 Hugo Kaagman was one of the featured artists in the widely acclaimed Cans Festival.

Kaagman's work is held in museum collections such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Groninger Museum, Historisch Museum, Artotheken Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden. In corporate collections such as: ABN/AMRO-Bank, RABO-bank, Philips, British Airways, HEMA b.v, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nederlandsche Bank, ING Bank, Nike and in private collection in countries such as: Private collections: Germany, Spain, England, Belgium, France, U.S.A, Brasilia, Argentina, Curaçao, France, Greece, Norway, Danmark, Venezuela and The Netherlands.

Blind Angle is currently featuring mainly large canvas works by Hugo, but we are working on arranging limited editions on paper.

Here are a couple of tasters:

















For all the details and much more work please visit:

www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/Hugo_Kaagman/hugo_kaagman_Auntie_Lulu.html

The second artist is Eva Han.

Eva Eun-Sil Han was born in South Korea and is currently working and living in Belgium. About her art she says "I do art because I can easily express myself more than speak. My challenge is how I show my subconscious mind to everyone without moving or saying physically - it's all about inside of me. All works feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions working with elements from the tradition of Surrealism and Old School hand-made collages augmented with drawing and painting techniques. The recurring motifs in work have to do with the psychological exploration of the relationships between the ego (conscious mind), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious".
Eva Han graduated with a B.F.A. from DANKOOK University, South Korea in 1995. In 1994-1995 she attended NAREA Design Institute Graphic Art and in 2004-2005 L'Atelier d'Art de la Grange des Champs - Belgium.
Eva Han has exhibited in several European countries as well as the USA.

The work we feature is mainly mixed media work on paper and here are a few examples:











Again more details are to be seen on:

www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/Eva%20Han/eva_han_achulophobia.html

All the best and a really good summer to all of you

cheers

Ragnar

Dear All

We are very happy to announce a couple of new artists now featured on Blind Angle. One is a true street art pioneer from the Netherlands and the other does not have anything to do with Street Art at all and she is originally from South Korea, but lives in Belgium. The two are Hugo Kaagman and Eva Han.

Here is a bit about the two:

Hugo Kaagman:

Hugo Kaagman was born in Haarlem, Holland in 1955. From 1973 to 1976 he studied social geography at the University of Amsterdam. To wards the end of the seventies he got involved in the punk movement; at that time the premises at 62 Sarphatistraat, where he lived and worked up until 1998, were broken into by squatters. This was the place where in 1977 the Koecrandt, the first punk newspaper of the Netherlands, was published. In collaboration with others Hugo Kaagman also set up a number of galleries, including Anus gallery in 1977.
Hugo Kaagman makes stencils of his pictures, mostly traditional motifs from different cultures, which he then combines to form larger representations. After initially having sought his inspiration elsewhere, he discovered Holland and developed his own contemporary version of Delft blue tiles. This Delft blue publication is a survey of Kaagman’s blue and white period, also known as Kaagware, and forms just one item from his massive oeuvre. In 1983 Hugo Kaagman received his first official commission from the municipality of Amsterdam: spraying a fence in Waterlooplein. In 1987 he painted the entrance to the Tropenmuseum. In 1992 he made his first Delft blue mural: the Eerste Leliedwarsstraat. After this in 1993 came the most extensive painting until then: a 65-meter-long mural in the West Terminal of Schiphol Airport. Since then Hugo Kaagman has created a great many murals at home and abroad.

He has developed his own graffiti style since 1969. In his early period, he used various elements from the punk and reggae cultures in his work. Until 1985 he was mainly active as a graffiti artist in Amsterdam’s city center. His murals and paintings are realized by means of stencils and airbrush. Typical of his work is the symmetry of the composition and the repetition and mirroring of the image. Kaagman’s work reflects a particular concern with Western and non-Western cultures. During his travels in Morocco and Senegal, among other countries, he discovered motifs, traditional patterns and handicraft forms that are specific to the cultures of these nations. Exploring other cultures made Kaagman aware of his own culture and he started to research motifs that are typically Dutch. He feels strongly that these should be preserved and combines them with contemporary and foreign motifs. Kaagman’s work is also a vehicle for his ironic comment on political or contemporary events. The most distinctive characteristic of Kaagman’s work of the past decade is its blue color. He plans to extend and deepen his study of the clichés of different cultures to come to a survey of his findings and publish and expose this to the decision makers of the European community.

Hugo Kaagman has exhibited extensively since the early seventies. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and has also participated in group shows all over Europe and in North America. In 2008 Hugo Kaagman was one of the featured artists in the widely acclaimed Cans Festival.

Kaagman's work is held in museum collections such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Groninger Museum, Historisch Museum, Artotheken Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden. In corporate collections such as: ABN/AMRO-Bank, RABO-bank, Philips, British Airways, HEMA b.v, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nederlandsche Bank, ING Bank, Nike and in private collection in countries such as: Private collections: Germany, Spain, England, Belgium, France, U.S.A, Brasilia, Argentina, Curaçao, France, Greece, Norway, Danmark, Venezuela and The Netherlands.

Blind Angle is currently featuring mainly large canvas works by Hugo, but we are working on arranging limited editions on paper.

Here are a couple of tasters:

















For all the details and much more work please visit:

www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/Hugo_Kaagman/hugo_kaagman_Auntie_Lulu.html

The second artist is Eva Han.

Eva Eun-Sil Han was born in South Korea and is currently working and living in Belgium. About her art she says "I do art because I can easily express myself more than speak. My challenge is how I show my subconscious mind to everyone without moving or saying physically - it's all about inside of me. All works feature the element of surprise and unexpected juxtapositions working with elements from the tradition of Surrealism and Old School hand-made collages augmented with drawing and painting techniques. The recurring motifs in work have to do with the psychological exploration of the relationships between the ego (conscious mind), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious".
Eva Han graduated with a B.F.A. from DANKOOK University, South Korea in 1995. In 1994-1995 she attended NAREA Design Institute Graphic Art and in 2004-2005 L'Atelier d'Art de la Grange des Champs - Belgium.
Eva Han has exhibited in several European countries as well as the USA.

The work we feature is mainly mixed media work on paper and here are a few examples:











Again more details are to be seen on:

www.blindangle.co.uk/blind_angle/artist_pages/Eva%20Han/eva_han_achulophobia.html

All the best and a really good summer to all of you

cheers

Ragnar