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Tim Roosen (Sint-Truiden, Belgium °1972)
Blacksmith and metalsculptor.
“Self-taugh artist, MAG and TIG welder, dreamer and illigitimate son of Hephaestos. Let Tim Roosen take you into his strange world of angels, warriors, demons and androids.”
After finishing the ‘Strange Fruit’ series, a collection of plant-like wrought iron metalsculptures, and building the largest artistic scale model of our solar system in the world – which consists of 11 monumental sculptures in 9 Belgian cities – he returns to what he likes doing most: figurative art.
He is currently working on his 'Asylum’-series, a collection of life-size heroic warrior women and twisted creatures made of a variety and combination of metals, such as mild steel, burnt copper, stainless steel, cast bronze and aluminium. Inspired by an overdose of Sci-Fi movies in his youth, tons of fantasy literature and more weird dreams than he cares for, these creatures have a definate dark, warrior-like feel. Metal, a cold and lifeless material, is cut, hammered, shaped and welded into organic, living creatures of dreams and nightmares.
Tim Roosen has been an active member of the art world since 1997, and has participated in various group exhibitions, in Belgium, Holland, France, Luxemburg, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the UK and the USA, as well as a number of solo and duo shows.
His works are in private collections in Belgium, Luxemburg, Holland, Germany, Denmark and the USA.
Since 2009 he has been working with Claus Brusen of Fantasmus Gallery, previously in Saeby, Denmark, but as of 2010 in Copenhagen.
Also in 2010, he opened his own gallery in his home-town of Sint-Truiden, Belgium. www.novabelgica.com
Publications:
"Art Attack", Strychnin Gallery guide #2, 2007
"Dante, The Divine Comedy", Edition Brusen, 2009, ISBN 978-87-992147-2-3
"Quadrant Fantasy", Edition Brusen, 2010, ISBN 978-87-992147-7-8
"Imaginaire III", Edition Brusen, 2010, ISBN 978-87-992147-8-5
"Visionary Art Yearbook 2010-2011", Otto Rapp
"Imaginaire IV", Edition Brusen, to be published September 2011
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