Hans Bossmann

work t-shirt short sleeve
2013 - 2021
cotton, mixed materials on frame
70 x 63 x 1,8 cm
work t-shirt short sleeve
2013 - 2021
cotton, mixed materials on frame
70 x 63 x 1,8 cm
round table colored with squares by public (Open Studio in Shopping Mall 2017, Haarlem)
2017-2020
primer, permanent markers and lacker on wood
73,5 x 101 (∅) cm
Father - Half an hour after the death of my father I put toy eyes on his face and took this picture. A man who is okay with that shows confidence in his son."
2010-2015
Fotoprint
20,5 x 36,2 cm
I. Calvino
1995
ballpoint on paper, framed
50x50 cm

Many things I do leave some kind of remnant behind. When I paint or clean, this could be a wipe, cleaning cloth or dirty work clothes. These are traces, artefacts, perhaps even ‘relics’ of everyday life.
These remnants that are created without thought, without intention or meaning often appeal to me more than an explicitly created work of art. The absence of intention to have meaning and/or value, an existence not governed by all the rules and principles in our visual arts ecosystem allows for a wonderful spontaneous splendour to be born.
Of my recent social art projects, too, there are left-over workpieces that, without the story of the project, take on a whole new meaning, a meaning of their own.

Drawings I did 30 years ago appear to have become remnants; from the first phase of my artistic career which no longer seems all that important now. For years, I have been photographing scenes that show something that shouldn’t actually be seen. Like the back of a traffic sign or covered sockets in an exhibition room.

In the last two years, I have been experimenting with bringing these unconnected ‘workpieces’ together. To my surprise, they ‘work’ well together but also look great as pieces in their own right. It seems they no longer need me. I’m more editor than creator.

www.hansbossmann.nl
work t-shirt short sleeve
2013 - 2021
cotton, mixed materials on frame
70 x 63 x 1,8 cm
work t-shirt short sleeve
2013 - 2021
cotton, mixed materials on frame
70 x 63 x 1,8 cm
round table colored with squares by public (Open Studio in Shopping Mall 2017, Haarlem)
2017-2020
primer, permanent markers and lacker on wood
73,5 x 101 (∅) cm
Father - Half an hour after the death of my father I put toy eyes on his face and took this picture. A man who is okay with that shows confidence in his son."
2010-2015
Fotoprint
20,5 x 36,2 cm
I. Calvino
1995
ballpoint on paper, framed
50x50 cm