Midas Zwaan

Midas Zwaan

Midas Zwaan (1983, Amsterdam) work fades the boundaries between assembly, sculpture and installation. Midas Zwaan roams about various thrift stores across the country looking for so called ‘found objects’ which are selected based on form, material and meaning.

 

From there Midas Zwaan constructs baroque, surrealistic, carnivalesque, unorthodox assemblages, sculptures and installations which are adjacent to the notion border on the concept of ‘readymade’ objects.

 

The individual secondhand objects are given a new function and positioned as symbols, which refer to the excess of the consumption society. Memories and sentiments play an important role in Zwaan’s work as well. A diversity of auction crates, pirate chests and suitcases are converted to nostalgic peepboxes. These represent the inner being in a collage like way and are lighted by an ominous atmosphere of death, destruction, fame and self-promotion. A look in the show box requires a meticulous eye that plays with miracle and intimacy between spectator and the work

 

CV Midas Zwaan

Website Midas Zwaan

Portfolio Midas Zwaan 2019 

Fotografie Pim Leenen

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

 

High Mighty, 2008

Collection Social Insurance Bank Amstelveen

Dreamcatcher, 2009

Masterpieces collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht