all pictures: acrylic and inks on c-print. 25.4 x 25.4 cm ©SEBASTIAAN BREMER. 2010

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SEBASTIAAN BREMER in eight facts:

1. He was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2. He moved to New York in 1992
3. where he was assistant to several artists including INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE & VINOODH MATADIN from 1996-2000
4. in 2001, he had a solo debut, “Veronica” at Roebling Hall in New York
5. He starts by enlarging unassuming snapshots, the kind that fall out of an overflowing album or pile up in a drawer. These more or less blurred photographs show family, friends, lovers, homes, and landscapes.
6. Then he manipulates the pictures with thousands of tiny ink dots, which grow into delicate and fluid webs of rippling and rolling lines.
7. BREMER’s work engenders such interest by creating a delicate balance between the macro and micro events in his compositions (I really invite you to experiment his website where you can enlarge his work and see all the details)
8. Referencing visions by turns dreamy and druggy, BREMER’s dot-screens speak of our inevitably mediated relationship to the “real.

Enjoy!