Studio Uiterwaal Kroes
Explanation on the artworks
Remastered Art is about recycling old works of art into a new contemporary work. For this project we have made a new contemporary four-panel from a family photo from 1913.
The process starts with plotting an aesthetic visual idea. After this phase, we do the photo shoot from which a selection of photos emerges that we will work with. We then take these prints into the studio and choose the colors and the way in which the paint is applied. Choosing the colors always brings an extra dimension because Merette is color blind. After she got glasses that allow her to see color better, this changed the palette she worked with and with this new view of the world she brings a new view on the work and the use of color.
About the artist
Painter Aron Kroes and photographer Merette Uiterwaal started working together during the pandemic in 2020. After sharing a studio space for years, the standstill of the world during the pandemic provided a starting point for their creative collaboration. Merette's abstract portraits were the starting point for a new series in which Aron's expressive and intuitive painterly touch brings the abstract photos to life, so to speak. Individually, their work revolves around the investigation of identity and color, which comes together in their collaboration.
In addition to the series that they create as an artist duo, both also work as independent artists on their own series and projects.
Curious about the process? Below is the original of this Remastered Art.
