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 : Typografie
1983 : Model drawing
1985 : Illustrations
1988 -1991: 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 galleries, Barcelona, Spain
1999 : Hotel Rivoli, Barcelona, Spain
1999 : Villa del Arte galleries: Gerona, 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
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, Austria
2007 : ArtNime, Nimes, France
2007 : Galerie Giardino, Berg en Terblijt, Holland
2008 : Northern Art fair, Harrowgate, England
2008 : Konstmässen, Stockholm Art fair, Sweden
2008 : AAF Paris, France
2008 : Open Art fair Utrecht, Holland
2008 : Buyart fair, Newcastle, England
2008 : GEAF, Gooi en Emland Artfair
2008 : Newcastle Gateshead, England
2008 : BuyArt Fair, Manchester England
2008 : ARTI08 The Hague, Holland
2008 : AAF London, England
2008 : AAF Amsterdam, Holland
2009 : Line art, Gent, Belgium, Villa del Arte galleries
2009 : Primevera Rotterdam, Holland, Villa del Arte galleries
