Artist Statement
At the SISEA Art Exhibition site Cindy Vermeulen’s Amiga-2000 animations were shown that formed her graduation work for Minerva Academy, the visual art department of the Groningen Polytechnic.
Shown are:
Zeven Spreekwoorden (Seven Proverbs):
I. Tegen de lamp lopen (literally ‘hit the lamp’; english equivalent ‘blow the box’)
II. Te veel hooi op de vork nemen (literally ‘taking too much hay on the pitch fork’; english equivalent ‘too much assets on my hands’)
III. Het hoofd boven water houden (‘keep the head above water’)
IV. Tegen het hoofd stoten (literally ‘hit somebody against the head’; english equivalent ‘breaking eggheads’)
V. Een klap van de molen (literally ‘a blow from the mill’; meaning ‘gone crazy’)
VI. Schoon schip (literally ‘clean ship’; english equivalent ‘cleaning house’)
VII. Jong geleerd oud gedaan (literally ‘learned young, practiced old’; english equivalent ‘catch them young’)
Short Animations:
- Men & Women
- Education
- Men & Women 2
- No title
- Jealous
- Commercial: Dancing
- City
- Depressing Manic
- Heart beating buildings
ISEA Archives Video Channel:
- Cindy Vermeulen (NL) is a graduate student at Academie Minerva, Rijkshogeschool Groningen, NL. cindyvermeulen.nl/text