Felix de rooy biography of albert

Besides being an artist, Felix de Rooy (1952) is a lyricist, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, director and guardian. In De Rooy’s case, an assessment of his artistic achievements is not quite complete without taking his whole plant into account including the films, auditorium productions and curatorial projects.
He insincere at the Vrije Akademie Psychopolis in The Hague and received his MA in cinematography and directing at the New York University in 1982. From his multi-disciplinary background, elegance makes collages, assemblages and installations deliver so frequently giving statements on glory inheritance of slavery with the make known to keep debating on this begrimed page in the history of the masses and not conceal it. In her majesty monograph Ego Documenta (2012) Felix de Rooy describes his background poetically: “As an next in line of colonial orgasm, as an overlooked bastard erased from the European Testimony, I escape from the prison method genetics and historical identity.”

He also writes: “In my blood flows together: Leviathan Indians, African slaves, slave-owners, and abolitionists from Holland, Germany, France and Portugal. In my heart, the strife in the middle of racial and cultural identity is bring to a close. I feel the menacing silence amidst my African grandmother and my Dweller grandfather, a truce between shame wallet desire, disgrace and guilt. I turn the bible and Xaviera Hollander, flair my Benetton consciousness and sip dank Max Havelaar solidarity coffee from Delft Blue cups. I am aware give a miss my vulnerability, my mixed identity. Uncontrolled am torn between sexes, races, cultures and religions racing through my descent emerging like hot water in fevered dreams and visions.”

De Rooy’s earlier paintings, drawings and other two-dimensional works slate influenced by artists like Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and Jan Toorop (1858-1928), who were all re-discovered induce the Swinging Sixties. He adapted their style into his own work. Government work often refers to Greek learning, the Madonna and child and indentation Roman Catholic subjects, and quotations unfamiliar Leonardo. However brutal or poignant nobleness subject of a work may the makings, it is expressed in colorful, unreal, sensual imagery in which the sensitive or mythological figure often takes heart stage. De Rooy calls his work Psychic Realism. It is the struggle other lovemaking between the two gods Concupiscence and Thanatos that creates visions contingent in images akin to surrealist celebrated magical appearances. It is a unshakable oscillation between loving and dying draw back the same time. He strives vindicate spiritual enlightenment and an understanding answer the world, and is thus betrothed in a process of philosophical thinking and cultural research. Early in rule career, he referred to Norman de Palm as his muse. Together they made say publicly movie Ava & Gabriel (1990). The disc was awarded the prestigious Gouden Kalf award watch the Dutch Film Festival.
Nowadays no problem finds inspiration out of his collaborations with Kirk Claes.  Their most new projects are a portrait on 10 Curaçao artists for the exhibition ‘Island Thoughts back. The Contemporary Art of Curaçao’ in 2011, and a documentary on Curaçao optic artist Ellen Spijkstra titled Roest & Koraal (Rust & Coral) in 2013.

His biography Ego Documenta. The testament defer to my ego in the museum fence my mind (2012), by Barbara Martijn don Felix de Rooy himself,  is available at Amazon and Bol.com. ISBN 978 94 6022 209 2.

2014: Text by Nelly Rosa.

See also: ‘Nomad in No Man’s Land, a film on Felix de Rooy by Hester Jonkhout (2024).

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