Jop Horst
Dutch sculptor (1961-2014)
Jop Horst (Rome, September 27, 1961 - Hengelo, January 12, 2014) was a Dutch visual artist and filmmaker, living and working in Hengelo. His oeuvre includes various types of media and techniques, such as kinetic installations, drawings, paintings, experimental films, video art and performances.
Horst studied at the Academy of Visual Arts St. Joost in Breda (1982-1986), and at the AKI in Enschede (1986-1988). In 1991 he received a Start-up Grant for Visual Arts from the Dutch state.
Work
Horst's work, in spirit akin to Dada and Fluxus, is investigative, explorative, playful, humorous and often elusive. He had a special interest in the number zero (0), as something that does not exist and is intangible, which inspired him to create various works, such as the Zero Counter: a device made with adhesive tape that continuously adds up 0 to 0. He was also fascinated by the phenomenon of sleep. At the same time, his work is an exploration into the basics of moving image technologies.
While he already made computer animations in the 1980s, he rediscovered various analog techniques during the digital revolution in the 1990s.
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