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Folkert de Jong, The Man from Delft

by Nicola Bozzi
Folkert de Jong at Galerie Fons Welters November 26th, 2011 - January 14th, 2012
Posted 12/18/11

I felt a childish thrill while visiting Folkert de Jong's solo show. Due to their colorful and heterogeneous materiality his figures have a sort of sensual spontaneity, but at the same time they give off the mysterious appeal of tarot illustrations. The sad Harlequin, the saucy Dutch Lady, the clueless philosopher Diogenes, the juggling King of Water, the burlesque Queen of Coal. A creepy pantheon of vicious, dirty demigods, laden with ancient symbology and dripping with polyurethane foam. The Man... [more]

New Sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery (Part 1)

by David Yu
David Altmejd, John Baldessari, David Batchelor, Matthew Brannon, Peter Buggenhout, Björn Dahlem, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Folkert de Jong, Roger Hiorns, Martin Honert, Thomas Houseago, Joanna Malinowska, Kris Martin, Matthew Monahan, Anselm Reyle, Sterling Ruby, Dirk Skreber, David Thorpe, Oscar Tuazon, Rebecca Warren at Saatchi Gallery May 27th, 2011 - October 16th, 2011
Posted 7/10/11

The title of the exhibition explains it all; it’s a sculpture show. The label on the tin did not lie and we have been served exactly what is expected with The Shape of Things to Come. In this regard it was both strangely satisfying -- reassuring myself of what I know as contemporary sculpture, and slightly disappointing -- nothing surprised me into reevaluating sculpture, objecthood, installation. Though I know that the trajectory of art parameters do not change overnight, if this exhibition is a repr... [more]

To Each Their Own

by Charlie Schultz
Martha Colburn, Folkert de Jong, Xu Zhen at James Cohan Gallery September 6th, 2008 - October 4th, 2008
Posted 9/28/08

If you put three site-specific installations that were meant to stand-alone in a single gallery space do you have three separate exhibitions or one group show? Is it possible that artists participating in a group exhibition could declare that each one of them was actually having a solo show at the same time and in the same place? If it seems like a rhetorical impossibility, stop and see Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, Martha Colburn at the James Cohan’s Gallery. Each of these three artists has take... [more]