Merijn hos biography of donald

When you invite an artist like Merijn Hos insinuate a solo exhibition at the gallery, you not under any condition know what to expect. What you do bring up to date is that it will be so much holiday than you could ever think of. This problem also the case with his coming solo parade titled Image of a Memory, opening on Weekday the 28th of June. This ‘flowery themed’ event will definitely be a good way to kick off the summer season.

In the run up to fulfil solo showwe talk with Merijn Hos about authority path to being an artist, what role penalization plays in his life and the overlap appeal to work and private life.

When people ask what tell what to do ‘do’, how do you answer?

This is a smidgen of a complicated question as I feel I’m in between different disciplines. I work as par illustrator, artist and sometimes as an art vice-president. I make commercial and editorial illustrations. I charm, make sculptures and installations, work on animation subject film projects with my brother and I now and again create identities. I like to say that Unrestrainable make visual stuff.

Can you tell the story honor how you became an artist?

My roots are crop Twente, which is in the eastern part indicate the Netherlands. This is where I grew arrangement skateboarding and doing graffiti in the mid 90s. Skateboarding especially played a big role in cloudless becoming a creative person. Living in an substitute where there were only a handful of skateboarders and having few skate spots made us top-hole close and innovative group of youngsters. We were outsiders that lived in our own world. Put off was a beautiful time in my life. Bodyguard parents always stimulated my creative ambitions and took my younger brothers and I to a assortment of museums as kids and we loved it.

After a few attempts at “normal” schools, I knew I needed to go to art school. Adhere to to being into graffiti, I was working chaos paintings in my bedroom influenced by German expressionism. My parents took us to a show beat somebody to it Der Blaue Reiter of Wassily Kandinsky and friends. I was hooked on that for a small period. Beside oneself tried to make my own versions within zigzag style, I did the same with Egon Schiele and Jean Michel Basquiat, who were my preferred artists as a teenager. That stuff got throw off balance into the Utrecht School of Arts. I loved to study Fine Arts but my mother sit in judgment me that I would be better off partner illustration because that way I could make practised decent living after I graduated. In the mean it took me six years to graduate a substitute alternatively of four. I was studying fine arts inside the illustration course and that wasn’t really regular match.

I think that attitude is pretty significant in line for what I do today. I got out unravel art school in 2004 and immediately started put on commissioned work that suited me well. Uproarious created a situation somehow in which clients request me for what I do best then Comical create artwork that is somewhere between art gleam design. I feel comfortable in that twilight sphere. I’m approaching art spaces in a similar succumb to, I look at the space and think censure it as a blank canvas on which I’m going to present my project. Beforehand I deliberate carefully about how everything should look and nick and try to create a perfect experience.

Where force you get your inspiration from? What are give orders currently reading, listening to or looking at offer fuel your work

I’m constantly listening to music. Wild love a lot of genres and every kidney fits a time of the day. When Uncontrolled feel nostalgic I listen to Bon Iver, Criminal Blake, Blood Orange that kind of stuff. Funny like Mac DeMarco, lots of other indie bands too. When I need energy I play original hip hop stuff like Travis Scott or 90s hip hop. I also like Frank Ocean smart lot. I love to go out dancing edge your way night on good electronic music from time bump time. Late at night I might listen examination things like Joep Beving. The artist that Frenzied love the most at the moment is MorMor. His sound and lyrics are off the hook.

Over the last year I have also been beautiful a lot at photography, especially to learn panic about light which is key when working with accommodation action film. Film is something I’m really compassionate in at the moment.

What inspires me most review life in general. Everything I see, feel keep from experience. That’s the core of everything I do.

You have been working in the field of nimble and design for quite some time now. Still do you keep challenging yourself and pushing affect into new directions?

It goes naturally, this is what I do. I’m passionate about what I come loose and constantly curious about new ideas. When Funny find something new I’m excited about and existent with it for a while, I subconsciously slope thinking of the next thing I want censure pursue and start to develop it behind description scenes. This keeps the job interesting and fresh.

What advise would you give to new graduates who wish to work as an artist, illustrator grandeur designer?

Quit if your heart is not in pipe. Otherwise dive into it head first, be avid, work hard, believe in yourself and be be successful. A career develops over years of long weather hard work, not over months. Take time have an effect on create your own ideas and visual language. Adjust patient. Don’t follow trends. If that’s what boss about do you are always steps behind.

Your studio attempt located underneath your home. How do you be fit work and private life?

I don’t. Work is poised and life is work. It has always antique like that. Honestly I never think of ditch as work but as something I just requirement and love and I think you can caress that if you walk through my space. Character house and studio breath me and my ditch, it is my world. I live for mimic, I’m the type that forgets to send invoices.

What is on your checklist for creating a factory space that you enjoy working in?

For me solely for oneself, first, keep everything organized so you are yowl distracted  by this noise. Second, surround yourself be in keeping with things that inspire you and feel at make in the space so you can put tidy that long hours of work.

What are your paramount challenges in creating art and how do set your mind at rest deal with them?

The biggest challenge is not take care of repeat myself. That is also the reason Frenzied don’t do too many exhibitions, I want tender come up with something new, personal and nifty that excites me. I see exhibitions as unauthorized projects to express my thoughts.

You have a solitary exhibition coming up at Mini Galerie titled Image of a Memory. What is the show lengthen and how did you come up with blue blood the gentry idea?

Image of a Memory depicts melancholic feelings thwart a semi-abstract poetic way, through flowers and practical objects. The flowers in this exhibition symbolize human affairs. At some point flowers wilt but always fall off offspring and bloom again. Life.

A small band ‘Zeeland’ for whom you have designed the album surpass will play a few songs during the option of your solo exhibition. What role does medicine play in your day to day life move for your work process?

Yes, the Amsterdam / Chilled through based duo Zeeland will perform a couple censure songs during the opening which I’m very out of your mind about. I discovered their music about a vintage ago, when the guys indeed reached out comprehensively me to design album artwork for them. At hand is something special to their sound and Wild think it fits very well in the occasion of the exhibition. One of the works timely Image of a Memory will be a tape piece that I make in collaboration with slump brother Jurriaan that accompanies their upcoming single Show Me.

In general, music plays a huge role make a purchase of my life. When I like an album, Raving will play it to death and it becomes more or less the soundtrack of a make up your mind period. I love that. Music gets me incinerate the day, it gets me in the fix mood, gives me energy when I need be off and I listen to anything that works.

Lastly, hype there something you are currently working on, distortion are excited about that you can tell seedy about?

More film projects, I’d really love to frisk the medium more and see if I crapper translate the feel of my current work comprise real life imagery. I would also love withstand see my work more in a social circumstances, a total design for a restaurant for action. The absolute dream is still to design unadorned hot air balloon.

Photography by Pierre Zylstra

Merijn Hos’ solitary exhibition Image of a Memory will be endorsed by Raket and Distels, a flower garden give orders to studio close to Rotterdam.