Nemo Jantzen

Nemo Jantzen (born 1970) is a mostly self taught Dutch painter. Growing up in The Haque, after his study art and design in Roterdam he moved to Antwerp working in advertising and later settled down in Spain where he dedicated himself to fine art and since exhibited consistently to high acclaim. Nemo has had international solo and group shows at galleries in Spain, Holland and the United States and has been presented at several international art fairs in London, Paris and Amsterdam. His work can now be found in a number of private and public collections around the world.
His work has consistently explored the dialogue of narrative tropes in an image soaked contemporary environment. Early works used found pop like imagery collaged to create new contexts from photojournalism and advertising with Pop like highly detailed enlarged objects placed out of their enviorement.
Successive shows moved on to use and explore cinematic stills as the source of a visual collective consciousness.
His newest body of "hyper-realistic", work takes the dialogue to the next step by incorporating the vocabulary of cinematography and the expediency of digital photography as an inspiration for the new paintings. Nemo's hyper-realist narrative paintings evoke the iconic images embedded in the collective unconscious, illustrating the overlap between our memories of images from contemporary cinema and our ? real world? experiences.

STUDIES:

1982 : Tipografie
1983 : Model drawing
1985 : Illustrations
1986 -1990: Art academy R.T.O Rotterdam
1984 -1990: Worked with John Bakker Studio First Price
1988 -1990: Advertising studio Decover
1991 -1992: Adversising agency De Bruyn

EXHIBITIONS:

1991 : Studio Weimar, Den Haag, Holland.
1993 : Cafe d' Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1993 : Kunst hal , Antwerp, Belgium
1997 : Casa de Cultura , Calpe, Spain
1999 : Catalana Occidente, Barcelona , Spain
1999 : Villa del Arte galleriesBarcelona, Spain
1999 : Hotel Rivoli, Barcelona, Spain
1999 : Villa del Arte galleries: Girona, Spain

2000 : Fundacion contra Sida, Barcelona, Spain
2000 : Villa del Arte : Barcelona, Spain: Villa del Arte
2000 : Villa del Arte, Barcelona, Spain

2004 : Barcelona Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2004 : So-Hyun Gallery, New York, U.S

2005: Caixa Terrassa Terrassa,Spain
2005: Barcelona Art Galleries, Barcelona, Spain
2005: IAF(Inspired Art Fair), London, England
2005: So-Hyun Gallery, New York, U.S: So-Hyun Gallery

2006 :Galerie Giardino, Berg en Terblijt, Holland
2006 :Villa del Arte galleries, Barcelona, Spain
2006 :AAF, London, England

2007 : Glasgow Art fair, Scotland
2007 : AAF Amsterdam, Holland
2007 : Galeria Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain
2007 : Salzburg World fine Art fair
2007 : ArtNime, Nimes, France

2008 : Northern Art fair, Herrogate, England
2008 : Konstmässen, Stockholm Art fair
2008 : CAD Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2008 : AAF, Paris, Paris, France