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Article: Folkert de Jong: Upstream Gallery.(AMSTERDAM)
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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Folkert de Jong makes anti-monuments out of Styrofoam--transitory tableaux for a culture in which the permanence and eternal values symbolized by bronze or marble are all too obviously lies. Not that de Jong is averse to using apparently anachronistic elements: His sculptures and installations clearly engage in a dialogue with traditional figurative sculpture. Yet in this dialogue everything is transformed, in part precisely by the use of fragile and vernacular materials, in part by his iconography. De Jong's tableaux are grotesque and gothic, steeped in horror, comics, and fantasy.
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