Gerco de Ruijter

fotografie , film , Conceptueel , Abstract

Gerco de Ruijter is a Rotterdam-based visual artist working in the field of photography and film. In the late 1980s he started using kites, balloons and fishing poles to create images of situations far removed from our own vantage point. Since 2012 he has been mining Google Earth as a source, resulting in films like CROPS (2012) and Playground (2014). His art explores how far presentation of the landscape can be reduced and yet still remain recognisable.

"I love the search—perhaps even more than the finding" (Gerco de Ruijter 2026)

**ReTracing 1989-2012 (exhibition view Galerie de Zaal, Delft)** - I started doing kite-aerial photography while I was living on a disused farm "Halfwege", situated between Rotterdam and Delft. This was my home from 1988 until 1995. Afterwards I moved to Delft and later on to Rotterdam. During these years my ways of transportation changed: from a bike to a cargo moped towards an automobile. In ReTracing I am arranging my 15x15cm prints from 1989 until 2012 into a fictional map centered around the base "Halfwege" Letting Go Retraced (2008-2026), a remake of a pigeon flight over Delft, is screened in the back of the gallery.

**Adams Plane (from No Man's Air) 2026** - No Man’s Air a film by Gerco de Ruijter & Peter Delpeut No Man's Air reconstructs the last flight to Nicosia Airport in 1974, as told by Captain Adamos Marneros. Since 1974, the airport has been a no man's land between the Greek- and Turkish-speaking parts of Cyprus. Like archaeologists, the filmmakers piece together the past using shards found on the internet. A digital excavation, melancholic reconstruction and tribute to the imagination.

**Footprint inside (2022)** - Footprint - Gerco de Ruijter - Peter Delpeut production and final editing - Frank van der Stok design - Hans Gremmen publisher - FW:Books

**Fleur de Sel #01 (2016)** - Ultrachrome print on dibond 44"x44" edition of 5

**Cropped / Contact Sheet #7 (middle east) 2020** - Ultrachrome print 16"x 24" edition of 5

**Grid Corrections (2018)** - Apple Prores 422 (HQ) edition of 5

**Grid Corrections** - In the summer of 2016, I am driving around, a little lost, overwhelmed by the scale of the American landscape. I look for a point of reference: something that would make a particular place stand out in this monotonous farmland of Kansas? On a dusty, die-straight road running south to north, I stop at an unexpected T intersection... Essay "The Seduction of the Grid" by Peter Delpeut. Design: Irma Boom. Published by Nai010 Publishers (August 20, 2019)

**Zonder Titel / Untitled 2020** - Ultrachrome print on dibond 44"x44" edition of 5

**t i l t #02 (2006)** - Archival print on dibond 20"x20" edition of 5

Fleur de Sel

Datum: 01-09-2016 t/m 01-12-2021

Locatie: Guerande

Documenting the rise and fall of Dunaliella Salina, pigmenting the Presqu'île de Guérande saltflats.

http://www.gercoderuijter.com/gerco2/site/project/item/1461

Tether

Datum: 01-06-2016 t/m 01-10-2018

Locatie: Schouwen-Duiveland

In samenwerking met: Bewaerschole Burgh-Haamstede / Mondriaanfonds Amsterdam / Sander Veenhof

Een verkenning langs de kust van Schouwen-Duiveland in verschillende 360 graden panorama's.

Tentoonstelling Tether: een virtual reality traject (in samenwerking met Sander Veenhof) gepresenteerd in de Bewaerschole, september 2017

Film: Van de Punt tot Bru: een reis in acht panorama's. Première op Film by the Sea in Vlissingen 2018

https://www.cinecity.nl/voorstellingen/van-de-punt-tot-bru-theater-der-natuur#

Grid Corrections

Datum: 01-06-2015 t/m 01-05-2019

In samenwerking met: Fotomuseum Den Haag, nai010publishers Rotterdam, Hartenfonds, Mondriaanfonds, Ulrich Museum Wichita Kansas (USA)

Film, boek en tentoonstelling.
Artist in Residence at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita Kansas (USA) 2015
Boek Grid Corrections published by nai010 Rotterdam
Presentatie in het Fotomuseum Den Haag 2019

https://www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/grid-corrections

CROPS / Cropped

Datum: 01-01-2012 t/m 21-10-2020

In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Fonds / Manuel de Santaren

CROPS / Cropped is a project on centre pivot irrigation in the USA.
Long water-sprinkler arms rotate around a central pivot, irrigating circular fields of verdant crops in desert or semiarid environments. Often a well, located at the centre of the circle, pumps water up from vast aquifers in the rock formations below, or Rio Grande water is canalized and redirected into the deserts feeding the well. Once the Rio Grande reaches Mexico, it's riverbed has dried.

https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/meet-artist-gerco-de-ruijter/

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