ACADEMIC YEARS - WORK ASCENDING IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

​WORKBOOK   1990   drawings / sketches and ideas 
17 X 11 X 1,8 cm
SPATIAL WORK   1990
wooden sculpure (diabolo) chiseled from a piece of tree trunk, wedges and sisal rope  (only a detailed photo remains of it)             |       ​      cardboard box on an overturned chair, walkman with speaker in the box with a speaking voice
WORKBOOK 2  1990.  drawings
tables, chairs and bowls  A6   (selection)
SPATIAL WORK - model - construction sheet​ Brandenburger Tor​   1991   Part One   &   Part Two   picture
clay with silver paint
PROSE SKETCHES   &   ​PSY FI AND LOPROHAAL   1991   prose
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42 blz.  17,2 x 12,4 cm   handmade in a edition of 20   |   proza schetsen pdf​
60 blz.  17,2 x 12,4 cm   handmade in a edition of 20   |   psyfi en loprohaal  pdf 
SPATIAL WORK    1991   installation
I drew a circle on the floor and placed a stone from the center of the circle with three 200 x 1 cm metal tubes on top of it. Sawed the diabolo in half and covered one half with sisal rope and the other with plaster, welded a metal frame and placed it on the plaster half. Finished it off with two small stacks of stones.
WORKBOOK 3, 4 and 5  1991   drawings and paintings
A6 and A5   (selection)
ERRORES   1991   Part One
as a drawing  1991   |   as a title for a work  1993   |    as a design for a neon work  1995    
PAINTINGS   1991   mixed techniques
SEARCHING NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR SPATIAL WORK    1991
INNOTATION    1991    exhibition​ project space as part of the academy
PANEL    1992
for a friend  10 x 13 cm
UNTITLED DRAWING    1992
drawing for my sister-in-law's birthday 29.7 x 21 cm paraffin and black Conté, donated back in 2025
AN INTERPLAY OF SENSES    1992    school for new dance development Amsterdam
Dance Josephine Jansen  |  Flute Daniel Smith
TOSCANA    1992  -  1999  -  2010
Three photographs, two of which I printed on baryta paper in 1999 (in editions of three) to exhibit alongside a third work at the Kunsthal.
In 2010  I  commissioned two Soljet prints at 100 x 140 cm on which Sarah van der Pols made drawings   |   ​and a second print framed in 2024
LINES OF THOUGHTS    1992
DE WOORDEN EN DE DINGEN    1992    exhibition​ project space as part of the academy
The words / voting boxes    |     concept book made of glass with or without cover   |   works in progress
​LINES OF THOUGHTS    1992
MOTIVATIE    SITUATIE   MUTATIE   |   SENCE / ABSENCE   1993    and working on BOOK OF GLASS since 1992
ERRORES   ​1993   Part Two    exhibition space central hall academy​ main building
LINES OF THOUGHTS    1992
KONTAKTEN   ​1993    exhibition space central hall academy​ main building
contact prints book of glass
BOOK OF GLASS    1993
TO BE ORE NOT TO BE?    1991 - 1992 - 1993

​To be or not to be?

Bestaat de kunstenaar? Bestaat kunst? Vragen die Marcel Wesdorp zich stelde en probeerde te beantwoorden. Wij zijn getuige van de materialisatie van zijn gedachten. De worsteling die Marcel gedurende zijn studie met het begrip "zijn" heeft gehad, vindt zijn weerslag in een aantal "concrete" objecten. Hij tracht het niet-waarneembare, het niet-tastbare zodanig vorm te geven, dat het zich "uitspreekt". Dit heeft geresulteerd in een vliesdun en transparant fenomeen dat aan onze ogen voorbijtrekt. Als demonstratie van een filosofisch besef leiden zij een afgeleid bestaan. Als bewuste keuze hebben zij een soevereiniteit, die de rationele samenhang van het bewustzijn als een stapel papiervellen doet verwaaien in de eigen geestelijke ruimte. Vanaf dat moment zijn de "zwevende" polyester buizen een monumentaal teken, telescopen die een uitzicht bieden op ..... ja, op wat eigenlijk? Net als bij het glazen boek en het werkstuk met de titel "Waar ben je?", ziet men een moment dat tussen "net voorbij" en een "onvoltooid toekomend verleden tijd" ligt.

Does the artist exist? Does art exist? Questions that Marcel Wesdorp posed and tried to answer. We are witnessing the materialization of his thoughts. The struggle that Marcel had during his study with the concept of "being" is reflected in a number of "concrete" objects. He tries to shape the non-perceptible, the non-tangible, in such a way that it "pronounces" itself. This has resulted in a fleece thin and transparent phenomenon that passes by our eyes. As a demonstration of a philosophical awareness they lead a derived existence. As a conscious choice they have a sovereignty, which causes the rational coherence of consciousness to blow like a stack of paper sheets in their own spiritual space. From that moment on, the "floating" polyester tubes are a monumental sign, telescopes that offer a view of ..... yes, on what actually? Just as with the glass book and the paper with the title "Where are you?", You see a moment that lies between "just past" and an "unfinished future tense".

​Steef Roodhaan
1993
WAAR BEN JE?    1993    where are you?    The Observatory, academy's external exhibition space
A BOX    1993  and   ERRORES   The Observatory, academy's external exhibition space
epoxy resin with fiberglass, glass photo, metal, nylon thread and a polaroid
POST ACADEMIC YEARS
WORK IN CHRONOLOGICAL AND NON CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
DE WOORDEN EN DE DINGEN    1992 - 1994    |    SPEAKING TUBES    1994   model, idea sketch and as a black and white photo made by Ido Menco in the final exam catalogue
​'be reasonable, demand the impossible' René Crevel
THE THINGS _ photographs on glass (reproductions of nerve cells) ​and decides not to finish the two last voting boxes after two years
a year later in 1995, hanging at an angle freely suspended in the space during the Mycelium exhibition in Maastricht
H.A.L. exhibition space    1994    old Holland America Line departure hall
BOOK OF GLASS Collection Central Book House 1994
THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER    1994    |    BODYCAST    1994    |     NEURON    1997
picture  (​oval glass photo in a plaster corner tube)   framed 2024
LINES OF THOUGHTS    1995 - 1992
glued a piezo attached to a glass photo, yes again you hear someone speak through the glass and decided not to continue with this work
ERRORES Part 3 and finally let go the idea for a neon and think further about an installation with loosely hanging glass photo's in large format, in which I cannot find peace by hanging glass plates loosely in the space from the ceiling and want to break this feeling with the solution of ​​ovals, glass ovals.  
MOVING PARTS    1995
'BUT NO ONE WAS SO KNOWN IN HER VOICE'    1996 - 1999
​'MAAR OOK NIEMAND WAS ZO BEKEND IN HAAR STEM    1999    AND FURTHER    NEW PAGE
​WORK PROCESS  1996 - 1999    NEW PAGE