FILM & TV
Set Design and Painting in Italy
Project: Feature film, unnamedFunction: Art Director, Artist, Set DesignerLocation: Lucca, Tuscany For the time being I can’t name the film that I worked on in Lucca, Italy, but I will give a discrete look at some of the painting I did in between my normal set-design duties. In general I’m Read more…
FILM & TV
Sculpting and Modelling in Lucca, Italy
Project: Feature film, unnamedFunction: Art Director, Artist, Set DesignerLocation: Lucca, Tuscany In addition to designing sets and tending to their construction under the Production Designer, Wilbert van Dorp, Todd filled a couple of other artistic holes: sculptor, occasional scenic artist and 3d modeller. Here are a few photogenic examples. Task: Read more…
Gallery-Work
Recent Artwork: The Book of Lost Forests
The Book of Lost Forests: Black and White paintings made of charcoal ink on paper, drawn from coals collected from burnt out forests in Oregon (USA). It explores again human relationships to nature. Compositions feel historic and vaguely narrative, but are ultimately very abstract upon closer inspection. This apparent historicity is Read more…
Gallery-Work
Recent Artwork: Tarnation
Tarnation: This series is an experiment in the meaning of materials. A kind of architecture is made from handmade waxes, tars and pigments. An almost ecclesiastical architecture arises out of bitumen and tar, wax and damar. Drawings made of charcoal ink, gum arabic, shellac, etc sketch a new direction for mixing Read more…
Gallery-Work
Recent Artwork: Aviaries
Aviaries: Both Aviaries and the series Harpies are an expression of “natures revenge” and inescapable human hubris. There is an architecture made to contain nature, in a sense to bring us closer to nature, but it is exploded and degraded. The human and historical elements are too apparent to ever allow Read more…
Gallery-Work
Recent Artwork: Harpies
Harpies (Vengeful Flock): This series is an elaboration on the paper cuts from the past. Largely it is an expressionist diversion away from the literalness and narrative qualities of the paper cuts which were either done on commission or following a literary theme, such as the cantos of Dante’s Inferno. Read more…
EXHIBIT DESIGN
Interactives for Land Art Museum Flevoland
The Dutch province of Flevoland, entirely reclaimed from the sea in the 1950s and 1960s, has great swathes of open space and relatively new “nature”. As such there is a remarkable amount of so called Land Art in the province. Land Art is an artform analogous to sculpture that employs Read more…
EXHIBIT DESIGN
A Big Wax Model of Hoorn
photo Benno Ellerbroek Hoorn is an old city in the North of Holland on the shores of the former Zuyder Sea. In the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries it was wildly prosperous, and sent its merchants and soldiers the world over in search of glory and domination. Great profits, Read more…
EXHIBIT DESIGN
The Belfry Museum of Monnickendam
The regional museum “Waterlands Museum & Speeltoren” is a museum dedicated to the history of the region just north of Amsterdam, called Waterland. The main town of the region is charming Monnickendam, and the main landmark of Monnickendam is it’s ancient belltower, the “Speeltoren“. The tower houses the oldest carillon Read more…
EXHIBIT DESIGN
Model of Historic Chambers in Hoorn
For a new exhibition for the marvellous West Friesmuseum in the city of Hoorn we had the challenge of working in a beautiful period room from the middle of the 18th century. When working in a rich historic space it is necessary to take account of more layers of aesthetics, Read more…
EXHIBIT DESIGN
A quick bit of heritage modelling
https://www.vanhulzen.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/kanon_model-1.mp4 For the Mauritshuis in The Hague I was engaged on a project which included research and exhibitions about plundered art or “roofkunst”, meaning specifically the works of art and artifacts that were stolen from colonialized countries and other subjugated peoples during the Western push to dominate the world. The Read more…