ELEVEN DOORS FROM ELEVEN EXISTING PHOTOS 1912 - 1987 eight not executed 1925 - 1979
BUILDING THE DOOR RELIEFS FROM MUSEUM CARDBOARD (1200 grams) 2000
reproducing the door reliefs with a technical camera in order to print the black and white negatives on ILFORD matt barium paper in the format of 76 x 84 cm in 2001 in an edition of one
Galerie van Ingenhoven 2002
WHEN MY EYES ARE CLOSED, I'M WHISPERING NOISES TO THE BACKGROUND OF MY MOUTH 2004 BOX WITH INTAGLIO PRINTING
WHEN MY EYES ARE CLOSED, I'M WHISPERING NOISES TO THE BACKGROUND OF MY MOUTH 2007 FRAMED
For an exhibition of 5 door photographs at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, I decided to frame the works due to their fragility as they are unique (1/1) and preserve the matte surface through Gallery Glass.
EVENING LOG | AVONDLOG (from 2006)
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Doors
I know Marcel Wesdorp from the masterful virtual animated landscape Out of Nothing — complete with a map — in which I wandered with him in 2011. A peninsula jutting out into the sea. Impossible, but not without end; you float above it like an angel until you return to the shore. There are no people, animals, or trees; you lose all grip. You escape. Light as a feather. Now, at Galerie Helder in The Hague, there's another of his erratic works, with which he lifts you beyond the existent. More landscapes that show what landscape can do to you. Landscape is not realism. Landscape sucks and pulls at you. And then. A large box, on which, in almost invisible relief, is written 'I'm whispering noises to the background of my mouth'. It resembles the murmur of a playing boy. Eleven doors made of white cardboard emerge from the box, against a pristine white background. Is this the other extreme? From an unimaginable landscape to a domestic reality? No, you immediately think of what's out there, and you want to walk there, into the white light. If you turn around, the door will be gone. Wim Noordhoek, May 17, 2014 |
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HEROES OF THE SPIRIT | HELDEN VAN DE GEEST (essays from 2010)
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Eric Bolle - De deur van Marcel Wesdorp
2017 |
Eric Bolle - De deur van Marcel Wesdorp II
2023 |
Eric Bolle - De deur van Marcel Wesdorp III
2024 |
Eris Bolle - De deur van Marcel Wesdorp IV
2024 |
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One word too many for an event that doesn't happen. A word like Marcel Wesdorp's door. You can't open it; there's no knob. It's impenetrable, yet clear and distinct. Opaque and transparent at the same time. The door is the door to death: "Dying is nothing more than an illusion, something that appears to be something, and yet it erases itself while erasing us." (*) Behind the door lies nothingness, and the command sounds: "Endure the unbearable nothingness."
* Maurice Blanchot: The Step Beyond, 1973 |
At Marcel Wesdorp's door, what Jacques Derrida says about Maurice Blanchot's narratives applies. Neither rapprochement nor appropriation is possible. There is no describable meaning or meaning, no indication or command, no order, no imaginable representation, no presentable presence, no law or hierarchy. Nothing you could wish, desire, or demand. It is about the inaccessible as such. (*)
* Jacques Derrida: Parages, 1986. |
INTAGLIO PRINTING (second) 2021 FRAMED | #11 Storyville Portret (cutout 1st proof print) 2024 FRAMED
INTAGLIO PRINT 40 x 40 cm. | DOOR #11 39 x 67 cm.
WHEN MY EYES ARE CLOSED, I'M WHISPERING NOISES TO THE BACKGROUND OF MY MOUTH 2023 black BOX
Everything in the box is in a edition of one and It's including the eleven 4x5" negatives. The cutout intaglio print glued to the inside of the box, is the third of four