[SISEA] Artist Statement: Cindy Vermeulen — Graduation Animations

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:

  1. Men & Women
  2. Education
  3. Men & Women 2
  4. No title
  5. Jealous
  6. Commercial: Dancing
  7. City
  8. Depressing Manic
  9. Heart beating buildings

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  • Cindy Vermeulen (NL) is a graduate student at Academie Minerva, Rijkshogeschool Groningen, NL. cindyvermeulen.nl/text