Drawings
2020 Drawings
The Pheasant Orchard
2018 – present The Pheasant Orchard This website has been organised as a portfolio and it charts the development in the oeuvre of Carlijn Mens from 2005 till 2018. This last page marks a provisional end, but with its images it also indicates a new beginning, initiated by the location where Mens now lives…
Roadside / Structuren
2018 Roadside / Structures, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Residency Van Gogh House
2017 Residency Van Gogh House (Zundert) Spring 2017 I stayed at the house in Zundert where the Van Gogh family lived and Vincent was born. In many respects it was an emotional time of my life. More than once I read the impressive letters Vincent wrote to his parents and his brother Theo; the grave…
Mensch / Man
2016 Mensch / Man, Park013, Tilburg
Amsterdam Drawing
2016 Amsterdam Drawing, BorzoGallery
Road Side
2016 – present, Road Side In 2016 I rode my bike to bring my son to school every day, back and forth between Schoorl and Bergen. In spring I saw the roadside awakening, plants and flowers on that poor soil of sand, stones, tarmac, salt after a cold winter. I put sheets of paper amidst…
Amsterdam Drawing
2015 Amsterdam Drawing, BorzoGallery & Art Affairs Galleries
Mensch / Mens
2015 Mensch / Mens Mensch is about human beings being expelled. A procession of bodies. A crowd of people on the move. The Mensch project is a continuation of the installation Faith-Fear-Face presented in 2013 at the GEM in The Hague, in which I tried to visualize one of the great dramas of human trafficking: in…
Shadows of Moments Passed
2015 Shadows Of Moments Passed (Museum Belvedère, Oranjewoud) Dear visitor, Here you find the installation Shadows Of Moments Passed. You see a long sheet of paper rolled out on the ground, which makes shadows and light visible. If the sun shines trees, branches, and leaves project their shadows. If it is clouded you have to be…