Levi van Veluw 03/13/14

     Levi van Veluw us a multimedia artist he practices in video, photography, sculpture, installation, and drawing. He was born in Hoevelaken in 1985. He studied art at the Art EZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem and graduated in 2007. He's had work shown throughout Europe and the United States.

     I am not sure if I really like, like his work. I do find it very interesting though. In most of the work that I have seen of him it's him doing things to his own face either through special effects or materials applied to his face and then photographed. Each series that he does is named in accordance to the type of manipulation he has done to his face. Titles are a little misleading though if you haven't seen his work before. One of the series is called landscapes, but it isn't pictures or paintings of a landscape, it's him putting natural elements of a landscape over is head and face, making it seem like it's part of the landscape.

This is one of his landscapes. I think the title is one of the most intriguing things about this because I feel like it really explains the work. Most of his series have the same form of his head. So it really seems like it's the material that is what he wants to talk in the photograph. He's basically mimicking the traditional art and reforming it in a new way.

Landscape
120x100cm & 60x50 cm
2008






     I find this particular series pretty awesome. It's his ballpoint series, which is just him with his face drawn over in different ways with a blue or black ballpoint pen. I think one of the reasons why I like this photograph and this series is because it the least weird and creepy as compared to the rest of his work.  I think it's interesting the way that he has applied the pen because he does it with cross-hatching, which is a traditional drawing technique, but instead of applying it to paper and applying hatch marks where the forms of the face would be, he just applied it where is already belongs.


Lines
60x50cm & 120x100cm
2006



Source:
http://www.behance.net/levivanveluw
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/03/04/article-1159302-03BD89B9000005DC-170_306x423.jpg
http://www.levivanveluw.nl/sites/default/files/imagecache/work-original/work/landscape1_1.jpg
http://www.levivanveluw.nl/sites/default/files/imagecache/work-original/work/ballpoints_lines_1.jpg