Marcel Wesdorp

digitale technologie - land art - wetenschap & techniek

Wesdorp creates computerized animations of landscapes. Prints of these digitally developed areas seem to be real photographs, uniquely named by their specific xyz co-ordinates. But at a second glance you are struck by an unknown reality that lies beyond. Some steps in this process lead to unsuspected and surprisingly catching images, each of them with a most sensitive and enigmatic touch, as may be seen in his PW series. Apart from the purely software based techniques, the collection and modelling of existing satellite data and maps is a second intricate field of work of the artist. Here another elaborate few years were needed to complete the paper-printed black and white ‘Untitled World File’. Wesdorp’s fine imagination of scale and proportion makes you dazzle for this vacuum of time and space. Wesdorp continues to investigate new ways to show what lies beyond the surface.


Untitled World - 2015 60x86cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
x52059.4/y2598.8-2161 (where are you) - 2015 150x112cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
x86946.1/y55460.1-3838.8 (where are you) - 2015 180x105cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
Untitled (n63w014-n66w025) Iceland - 2017 58x76cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
THE_LIGHT_IS_NOT_YET_THERE ‘AREA OR POINT -13.483/Min 953.482999/Max’ - 2019 52x80cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
borderline (N 65° – W 168°) Diomede - 2020 76x58cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
Bewijsbare mythen #5 - 2018 28,5x24cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
Bewijsbare mythen #4 - 2018 71x60cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
REFORMATIE ‘curve’ - 2019 59x98cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium
“claim the unclaimed” // 158°W ~ 103°24’W // 1,610,000 km² (Antarctica) - 2018 58,5x78cm Inkjet on Hahnemuhle photo rag mounted on aluminium