Harry Haarsma
In his studio, he paints and draws. He makes books (leporellos) in which he investigates the interaction between word and image, which always—in various combinations—yet yields something new.
For the past two years, Haarsma has been working almost exclusively on newspaper spreads that speak directly to him, editing them and posting them on Instagram under the title The Painters Paper. The walls in his studio are also being wallpapered with them: an artistic palette of diverse images, colors, and words that reveals the equally wondrous and insane complexity of a worldview.
Haarsma on his work:
In my studio , the sketches, paintings, drawings, and texts I create mingle with the impressions to which I am exposed daily. I combine fragments from newspapers, passages from books and poetry, scenes from films and performances, as well as exhibitions, with what passes by online or on television, with what people tell me, and with what the landscape shows me in passing. In the studio, that world finds a place.
Of the world
The exhibition features various installations consisting of several leporellos – from ' The Library of the People I Am' – walls with edited ( poetic ) newspaper spreads, and display cases with thick, compiled newspapers. The short film ' World with Eyes of Snow' – an atlas of his work – is also shown.
