Ruben van Klaveren's Page

About Me:

Mostly I am working with video and with this medium I explore any subject which caught my fascination, subjects can be as diverse as symbolism, social criticism, isolation and trance.
A personal challenge is to make my point in a short amount of time, although this is also reflecting the ‘bitesize’ culture we are living in nowadays.

An artist can transform his ideas, emotions, passions into a 'work', if it stays within his sphere, it is a product of his inner dialogue/a vessel for self realization/contemplation/analysis, and is in my view purely restricted to himself. If this work is released into the public realm, it becomes a means of communication in a much broader sense.

The observer is allowed, or cannot help to project his own context on the artwork and start his own inner dialogue with the artwork, and I do mean the artwork rather than the artist. Depending on, amongst other factors, the language the artist uses and the language the observer speaks, the intention of the artist is understood.
The level of similarities between the (sub) cultural contexts of both artist and observer play an important role in conveying/understanding the intentions behind an artwork.

If an observer has a different set of associations with the colors, shapes, sounds, the artist uses, it creates a different interpretation of course. For me as the artist it is a challenge to successfully convey a message/expression while transcending the use of conventional symbols, be they auditive or visual.

Mail Address (City)

Enschede

Mail Address (State)

Am

Mail Address (country)

The Netherlands

Website:

http://picasaweb.google.pl/ruben.vanklaveren

Medium or Performance type

visual arts, film

Are you an...

artist or performer