Criticus Bouwt een Toekomst (1)

04 Saturday Jan 2025

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In creating art, this artist examines human actions and the resulting society, with bonds and clefts.

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Bij het scheppen van kunst, onderzoekt deze kunstenaar het menselijk handelen en de maatschappij die hieruit volgt, met verbindingen en kloven.

The Oil Terminal at Dissension

After one village a second was build // and as so often / these contained two communities / with different beliefs. // After peevishness came quarrel / and this raised high: a full five meters. // The arrival of the oil-terminal / changed little apart from more fencing. // The bridge does not unite the inhabitants / but enables them to dwell on different paths.

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De Olieterminal bij Tweespalt

Na één dorp werd een tweede gebouwd / en als zo vaak, / waren het twee gemeentes in het geloof. // Na wrevel kwam ruzie / en die liep hoog op en wel vijf meter. // De komst van de olieterminal veranderde weinig / behalve nog meer heining. // De brug verenigt geen bewoners, / maar maakt dat de wegen gescheiden voortgaan.

(assemblage, 78x58x9 cm, DM, 2013)

Inhabited

11 Sunday Aug 2024

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When locks fail / there is no need for keys.

Doors open freely / when people knock.

At night darkness closes / the access, safe, without sound.

Outside and inside are separated / by will, not by force.

Gäststatte zur alten Post, Witzhelden, NRW. Germany

Veiled

Your utter absence / was revealed by the texture
of these sheers used as veils / for protection against
unwanted looks.

text and photo (c) Drager Meurtant, 2024

Two sources one stream

05 Monday Aug 2024

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Hello, this is your virtual road assistance guide: when taking turns and determining your goal, you may ask: “is it possible that two sources form one stream?“

“Source”, mixed media of monoprint and etching, DM, 2023

Catherin Pascal Dunk and Drager Meurtant attempted to create two poems by sequential and mutual interactive exchange of lines / stanzas, and composing a joint stream of words or lyric.

you may find the results here:

Samensmelten / Merging

L’arche de Noé / Rampenbeheer

The Trek (Modern Times)

27 Thursday Jun 2024

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Is there more pressure, a heavier load / a road more insidious?

Is the texture of existence ruder / and less predictable and / is nature no longer trustworthy / not even in ourselves?

Yes, with the objective to serve / ourselves most / we become more otherless.

Sculpture, assemblage of wooden laths, coated with A-1 cast and paint plus piece of soap in cloth coated with A1 cast; 59x45x33 cm.

Borders and Fences

06 Thursday Jun 2024

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At the age of one year, the artist Drager Meurtant (b. 2012) wanted to create a vision of the world in it’s infancy.

With mountains, a lake and mystical homonoid figures standing idle.

“The mountains that I encountered, the swamps and gadflies: for milennia remained nearly unchanged: One time the first people came, or were Neanderthals earlier? People won, but whether that was the best outcome? “

In the years that followed, the increased tendency in our world to strengthen frontiers, raise walls, and push back ‘illegal’ immigrants, became a worry and cause to doubt progression of human society.

This did in 2023 lead to transformation of the above sculpture – assemblage, into “Borders and Fences”

The lake became a place for a small city with skyscrapers.

A high gate was raised, on a scale that in real life would be 10 m high, and that makes existing roads and path dead-ends.
And a refugee camp was created on the other side of the fence.

Two societies come into existence, populated by the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’.

After the ‘Chinese Wall’ and the ‘Hardrian’s Wall’, modern society got to know the ‘Iron Curtain’, and became aware of the fences that separate Northern and Southern Korea. However, in 2024 the length of walls and fences that separate Israel from Palestine, the (U)SA from Mexico, and in several countries in Europe to impair crossing the borders for immigrants impossible stretch of thousands of kilometers…

All images and texts by Drager Meurtant, 2013 – 2024.

The real powers

19 Friday Apr 2024

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Once green leaves unfold

touched by light inevitable,

and the tumult of bulletins of war

is quenched by the streams

of food and fluids that trees use

to establish a firm dictate of spring,

then those with arms and bullets

are dislodged into an obscure abyss of

irrelevance and oblivion, from

which escape can only occur by

pushing by press agencies.

Other forces are minute and unheard

yet unstoppable, such as time

and the sequence of seasons,

the need felt by birds to sing

in spring.

And here and now

I must give way, since no words

can catch this inner drive to

flourish and to follow the laws

of nature.

The path we might follow

runs back in time, where the past

has taken firm position, in anger

fuelled by neglect and

by being overlooked.

Photos and text by Drager Meurtant, April 2024

Advise to Leave

08 Friday Sep 2023

Posted by dragermeurtant in art, death, defense, demography, development, History, installation, kunst, philosophy, poetry, society, tentoonstelling

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borders, Dada, kunst, Migration, philosophy, poetry

Migration in animals and humans is of all times.

Often the drive is caused by the wish / need to improve living conditions and procreation.

However, the effects may be a disaster for groups indigenous for a specific area. The Black Death, or plague, caused by Yersinia Pestis is related to migration due to war or trade. In the Americas, the arrival of European conquerers did lead to massive slaughter by violence and introduction of diseases for which native people were very vulnerable.

In the 21^st century, migration is composed of people hired by companies as well as refugees from counries stricken by war and / or poverty. Increasingly, migration is caused by consequences of climate change.

There is often resitance against the arrival of migrants, often with focus most at refugees.

Walls are created in Europe that exceed mileage manyfold as compared to the former ‘Iron Curtain’.

Still, demographic changes in Europe and some other areas lead to a shift towards old age and insufficient numbers of young workers to keep business going, and threats of deficient care for elderly people…

At NDSM-Fuse the exhibition – curated by Ellen Klijzing – with 35 artists has focus on the experience of refugees.

The contribution of Drager Meurtant deals with slogans / banners telling refugees to

“Go To Hell = If You Are Not From Here”

Next to the banner with this text, separate words on pieces of wood, as advised by the curator, are present to charge visitors in seeking for word combinations.

Finally, the letters cut from carton to serve as template for the painted banner, are assembled as collage with additional transformation.

NDSM-Fuse ON THE RUN (OP DE VLUCHT), September 1^st 2023 – January 28th, 2024.

Amsterdam, NDSM-plein.

https://www.ndsm-fuse.eu/programma.html#content1-17f

Opposing, but no real harm done

08 Tuesday Nov 2022

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“The view of the other is confronting,

even dangerous, perhaps

threatening our lives”.

For horses

opposition may mean a bruise

or a bite

but no deep animosity

and mounting hard-feelings.

Misanthropy has no equine

equivalant.

Tegengesteld, zonder echt te kwetsen

“De kijk van de ander is confronterend,

zelfs gevaarlijk, misschien

voor ons levensbedreigend.”

Bij paarden,

betekent tegenstelling een beurse plek

of een beet

maar geen diepe vijandigheid

en groeiende animositeit.

Misanthropie kent geen

paarden equivalent.

(poetry and monoprint, DM, 2022, http://www.meurtant.exto.org))

Thinking about earlier times / Denkend aan vroegere tijden

19 Sunday Jun 2022

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Clouds and sun, and earth:
where I rest, there is
crumbly clay that harbours
the memory of a face, of
a jar in Hellas,
of a teacher at school.

Wolken en zon en aarde:
waar ik rust, daar koestert
kruimelige klei de herinnering
van een gezicht, van
een kruik in Hellas,
van een leraar op school.

Graphics edition one (DM, 25-05-2021), poem 03-04-2022