Het Parool over Behind the Forest van Remy Jungerman
HET PAROOL
zaterdag 20 november 2021
“Uiteindelijk moet het over de kunst gaan”
Een interview met Remy Jungerman door Jan Pieter Ekker
Dit weekend verscheen een artikel over Remy Jungermans nieuwe tentoonstelling in het Stedelijk Museum, Behind the Forest in Het Parool. In dit artikel is een interview te lezen met de kunstenaar.
“‘Het moest natuur-lijk drogen, dus we zijn hier vrij vroeg mee be-gonnen,” zegt de Surinaams-Am-sterdamse kunstenaar Remy Jungerman (1959), terwijl hij naar de bak met gebarsten klei onder zijn installatie Visiting Deities wijst. Een dikke week voor de opening van zijn solotentoonstelling Behind the Forest in het Stedelijk Museum – met sculpturen, installaties, panelen, collages en zeefdrukken van de afgelopen vijftien jaar – is hij bezig met de reconstructie van het monumentale werk, dat in 2019 te zien was in het Nederlandse paviljoen op de Biënnale van Venetië.”
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ABOUT Remy Jungerman
Remy Jungerman was born in 1959 in Moengo, Suriname
He lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and New York, US
Remy Jungerman attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies in Paramaribo, Surinam, before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
In his work, Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African diaspora, and 20th century Modernism. Placing fragments of Maroon textiles and other materials found in the African diaspora – the kaolin clay used in several religious traditions or the nails featured in Nkisi Nkondi power sculpture – in direct contact with materials and imagery drawn from more “established” art traditions, Jungerman presents a peripheral vision that enriches our perspective on art history.
In 2022 Jungerman received the A.H. Heineken Prize for Art, the biggest visual art prize in the Netherlands. From November 20, 2021 – April 10, 2022 he was the subject of a career survey show at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam titled Remy Jungerman: Behind the Forest. In 2019, Jungerman represented the Netherlands at the 58th Venice Biennale with the impressive Visiting Deities installation. Later that year, the artist had his introduction exhibition Neap Tide at Galerie Ron Mandos. In 2017 he was nominated for the Black Achievement Award in The Netherlands. In 2008 he received the Fritschy Culture Award from the Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands. Jungerman is co-founder and curator of the Wakaman Project, drawing Lines – connecting dots. Wakaman, which means “walking man,” was born out of a desire to examine the position of visual artists of Surinamese origin and to raise their profile(s) on the international stage.
Remy Jungerman’s work is included in various collections: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands, ABN AMRO Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, AkzoNobel Art Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, USA, US Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname, Hudson Vally MOCA, Peekskill, New York, USA, Francis Greenburger Collection, New York, USA, Saamaka Marron Museum, and various private collections.
Visit the website of the artist here.
