Marcel Wesdorp (1965) is a visual artist from Rotterdam who graduated in 1993 from the Academy of Visual Arts, the current Willem de Kooning Academy. He also joined up in 1999 to a Master's degree in photography at the St. Joost Academy. He makes virtual, computer-developed animations of landscapes in the media: film, print, photo, map and books. What a pen stroke is for the artist is a series of pixels for Wesdorp. Purely software-based techniques are his tools. He also creates his images with modelling and collages of elevation data. They are usually in many shades of grey and without any presence of people, flora and fauna. Prints of these digitally developed areas appear to be real photos. This also applies to his series 'Possible Environments', where for the first time in his career a warm turquoise with subtle nuances predominates. There seems to be life in this seemingly tropical archipelago. Ancient meteorite impacts on earth left their traces under the surface. In many such places there is exploitation of minerals. This appropriation makes you think about the value of our coexistence on earth. The ‘mining’ should therefore be taken literally. His work has been exhibited in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Belvédère, Palais de Tokyo and Photo Basel. His work is also in various collections including those of the Erasmus University, the Social Insurance Bank, the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Centraal Boekhuis and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
