Ray Caesar: The World of Ray Caesar
On December 10, the KochxBos Gallery opens in the center of Amsterdam with the exhibition "The World of Ray Caesar". For the first time the work of this contemporary English-Canadian underground artist will be shown in the Netherlands. Caesar's mix of (pop) surrealism, Victorian paintings, eighteenth-century French genre art and 3D art kick off a new exciting gallery in the city of Amsterdam.
The World of Ray Caesar
Ray Caesar (London 1958), who lives in Toronto (Canada) is now on view for the first time in the Netherlands. His debut in Europ was in Paris and Manchester will follow next year in 2006.
Ambiguous characters
Young, unapproachable girls and boys with doll-like faces populate Ray Caesar's 3D paintings. Only at a second glance do you notice their animal or deformed features. The figures seem introverted and serene, at peace with their deformities. For the viewer, that calm is less obvious: confronted with claws, wounds and deformities, he quickly recoils from the at first sight so endearing persons.
For his figures, Caesar was inspired by his many years of work in the photography department of the Toronto Children's Hospital, where he saw the effects of child abuse, operations and diseases on a daily basis.
鈥淚 see my figures as calm people. I see them without fear, with a secret knowledge of life and even humor. I think they are happy and challenge us to see them as they are. To watch them without fear, free from fear. Where some see loneliness, I see calm. Where some see suffering or pain, I see the call to process and share the suffering. The ability to embrace deviations and not be afraid of them. 鈥� Ray Caesar
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On December 10, the KochxBos Gallery opens in the center of Amsterdam with the exhibition "The World of Ray Caesar". For the first time the work of this contemporary English-Canadian underground artist will be shown in the Netherlands. Caesar's mix of (pop) surrealism, Victorian paintings, eighteenth-century French genre art and 3D art kick off a new exciting gallery in the city of Amsterdam.
The World of Ray Caesar
Ray Caesar (London 1958), who lives in Toronto (Canada) is now on view for the first time in the Netherlands. His debut in Europ was in Paris and Manchester will follow next year in 2006.
Ambiguous characters
Young, unapproachable girls and boys with doll-like faces populate Ray Caesar's 3D paintings. Only at a second glance do you notice their animal or deformed features. The figures seem introverted and serene, at peace with their deformities. For the viewer, that calm is less obvious: confronted with claws, wounds and deformities, he quickly recoils from the at first sight so endearing persons.
For his figures, Caesar was inspired by his many years of work in the photography department of the Toronto Children's Hospital, where he saw the effects of child abuse, operations and diseases on a daily basis.
鈥淚 see my figures as calm people. I see them without fear, with a secret knowledge of life and even humor. I think they are happy and challenge us to see them as they are. To watch them without fear, free from fear. Where some see loneliness, I see calm. Where some see suffering or pain, I see the call to process and share the suffering. The ability to embrace deviations and not be afraid of them. 鈥� Ray Caesar
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