Work of arts

9999

New York

PERFORMANCE

4-11 Sep 1999

Description:

At 9-9-99 Jan Willem Hament and I tried to break through as artist in New York. Jan Willem Hament made in New York 99 artworks in the days before “9999”, a day which should be rembered as the big crash because “9999” was a stopcode for many dos-computerprogramms. But nothing happens; the stop-code wasn’t harmfull. So we couldn’t take advantage of the expected chaos. Nevertheless, our presentation of the 99 artworks in front of the Guggenheim Uptown in New York was a big success as we were invited by two galleries to exhibit our works.

Partners:

Jan Willem Hament

Publication:

Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant

Art Unites Europe

All capitals of Europe

INSTALLATION

Jul-Aug 2000

Description:

With a car I travelled to all European Capitals of the EC and I asked people to make an artwork on my car, as I tried to collect the authentic pictures from Europe before the Big-Bang (1/1/2002; the introduction of the Euro). With as result that 760 people from 41 different countries painted my car.

Partners:

Psion-Nederland
Akzo-verf

Publication:

Berliner Morgenpost, Financieel Dagblad, Rotterdams Dagblad, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2020: An Art Odyssey

Rotterdam

MULTIPLE GRAFIK

Jan-Dec 2001

Description:

During the festival ‘Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe’, I copropriate the 100 most important artworks made by European Artist in the 20th century (Copropriate is a contraction between Copy and Appropriate). I sold the artworks 24 hours, 50 weeks and 350 days on two different locations in Rotterdam. After I copropriate 100 European artworks I made the final artwork called ‘2001 Erik Van Loon vs institutionalized art’ in which I summarized 100 years of art.

Partners:

RET
Forbo-Krommenie
Kinko’s

Publication:

Rotterdams Dagblad, Kunst-As, Academische Boekengids

The Dutch Dream / Van Loon Artparty

Rotterdam

PERFORMANCE / MULTIPLE

Apr 2002 untill now

Description:

At 4 april 2001 I had a big show in Off_Corso in Rotterdam to launch my Van Loon Artparty (Van Loon Artparty). With the Van Loon Artparty (a modern equivalent of the Tupperware party) I visit people at home and I sell paintings, drawings, sculpture from the ballet Only War Liberate. Like Degas I make many ballet works and like Christo I sell them to finance my balllet myself. Furtermore I sell Shares, which are inspired by old VOC-schips: The Love, The Hope, The Liberty, The Watchfullness, The Courage, The Countrylife. (The VOC is the founder of the Amsterdam Stockexchange, the oldest Stockexchange in the world).

Partners:

None

Publication:

Rotterdams Dagblad, Financieel Dagblad, Friends in Business, Safe

Worldwide

MEDIA ARTWORK

6 May 2002 - 6 May 2003

Description:

After the murder of Pim Fortuyn (a dutch politician) I decided to write each week a letter to the editor of all important news-, opinionpapers and members of our house of parliaments with the aim to inspire them, the mediacraty and finally you (mediacraty is a contraction of the words Media and Democray). The 52 letters have been published 97 times in dutch and foreign media with a total of 25.000.000 issue, for example Financieel Dagblad (19x), Trouw and Volkskrant(11x), NRC (3x), Vrij Nederland (2x), Time Magazine America, etc.

Partners:

None

Publication:

Algemeen Dagblad, Trouw, De Groene, Rotterdams Dagblad

Erik Van Loon Banknotes

Worldwide

ART MONEY

Sep 2003 untill now

Description:

Since September 2003 I pay with my own ‘Erik Van Loon Banknotes’. Those banknotes are original Euro banknotes, which are enriched with the stamp: Erik Van Loon; Kunst; Rotterdam. I started to issue my banknotes after the theft of 3.000.000 euro from the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Augustus. In one of the newspapers was written “het geld is ongemerkt verdwenen’ (the money slipped away without notice). For me the word ‘ongemerkt’ (unmarked) was the trigger to mark my banknotes with my Erik Van Loon stamp.

The headers:

Partners:

None

Publication:

Telegraaf

50.000 Artworks

Arnhem

SPAM-ART

Aug-Oct 2004

Description:

From half August untill half October I spread door-to-door in Wolfheze, Oosterbeek, Driel, Heelsum and Arnhem in total 50.000 unique numbered artworks with the aim to involve the people of Arnhem and surroundings in my ballet Only War Liberate. The 50.000 unique artworks are partly based on ‘Het Illegale Parool’ from 1944 and a folder from 2004. The artworks represent 60 years Art of printing and in the artwork I asked people to invite me for a Van Loon Artparty with the aim to finance the ballet Only War Liberate with the sale of my artworks.

Partners:

ABN-AMRO
GBK

Citam Arnhem

Publication:

De Gelderlander, Arnhemse Koerier

Freedomballet FREE

Netherlands

BALLET

Aug 2003 -

Description

For more then two years I tried to realize freedomballet FREE. FREE is a dance tryptich about uprising National Socialism, Second World War and liberation(s) and is except an anti fascist ballet (part I ALONE), also an anti-warballet (part II WAR) and a freedomballet (part III Liberate). Several theaters in the Netherlands and abroad were interested but I couldn’t get the $ 350.000,- to realize this Freedom Ballet.

That is actually why I decided last year to try to realize Free in the United States following the footsteps of the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi who devoted 21 years of his life to realize the Statue of Liberty. He succeeded after he talked in 1871 President Ulysses S. Grant and others into funding and installing this symbol of freedom in New York.

Partners:

VSB FONDSSt. Volkskracht

Publication:

BN de Stem

Netherlands–Poland

FILM

Jan 2005

Description:

An 11 hours silent document about the Auschwitz Deathmarch. The audience can walk like the filmmaker the same 64 km long evacuation route at which 58.000 prisoners had to march ten days before the liberation of Auschwitz. The Nazi-regime evacuated  those prisoners to other extermination or concentration camps.. In the group of prisoners was among others also Peter van Daan (the friend of Anne Frank) who survived the Deathmarch but died on Mai 5^th 1945 (Dutch Liberationday) in concentrationcamp Mauthausen. Some 20,000 are thought to have perished, due to underfeeding, exhaustion, cold (-20OC) and execution along this path.

Partners:

Publications:

Rotterdams Dagblad, Metro and many others

60

Netherlands–Poland

PAINTING

Mai 2005

Description:

Beginning 2005 the Rotterdams Dagblad asked me to design the front page of the 60^th liberation edition of the Rotterdams Dagblad. In this painting, which took 4 weeks to make, you can find among others the three parts of FREE, Lance Armstrong first step on the moon, Kim Lu Phuc running away from the napalm bombs at her village in Vietnam, and much more. This newspaper has been distributed under almost 100.000 readers of the Rotterdams Dagblad.

Partners:

Publications:

Rotterdams Dagblad, Metro and many others

2020: An Art Odyssey

Rotterdam

MURUAL

Jan-Dec 2001

Description:

During the festival ‘Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe’, I copropriate the 100 most important artworks made by European Artist in the 20th century (Copropriate is a contraction between Copy and Appropriate). I sold the artworks 24 hours, 50 weeks and 350 days on two different locations in Rotterdam. After I copropriate 100 European artworks I made the final artwork called ‘2001 Erik Van Loon vs institutionalized art’ in which I summarized 100 years of art.

Partners:

RET

Forbo-Krommenie

Kinko’s

Publication:

Rotterdams Dagblad, Kunst-As, Academische Boekengids

US

PAINTING

Nov 2005 – Nov 2007

Description:

The 37.000 runners and 260 million viewers in 125 countries of the ING New York City Marathon get every year the opportunity to preview for a 6-7 seconds my latest I Will Win self portrait. Since 2005 I reveal each year my newest self portrait (10 x 6m.) along the course of the NY City Marathon. Originally, I Will Win is designed as a Space Artwork inspired by Google Earth as I Will Win can be photographed from space as big as a stamp.

My first I Will Win self portrait I Will Win (1) was a traditional self portrait in the Dutch colors red, white, blue and orange. I Will Win 2 – The News was a self portrait in which I combined words with pictures in order to demonstrate the use of letters and words in imagery to challenge and stimulate the viewer’s experience of my second self-portrait The News. In The News, I painted myself as front page of the New York Times. At the finish photo you could see me winning the ING NY City Marathon in a world record of 2:04;30 and in the articles you could find information about my past, present and future.

Partners:

Virtualprinter

Simonis Verf

Publications:

TV Rijnmond, NY Post, Havenloods

‘1998-99

Publication of the art magazin De Weegschaal (The Scales). The magazin had the aim to bring the applied and autonomous art together. In De Weegschaal, we also pay attention to the economic aspects of arts.

‘1998

In the highest builiding of the Netherlands, the ING-headoffice in Rotterdam, I filmed the stairs from down to top and vica versa. The movie (15 minuts) have been enriched with the poet "Rotterdam is a city since …" from Jules Deelder.

 ‘2001

At the opening of my exposition at Galery De Oplichterij I painted the work “Genua, 21 june 2001” in commemoration of Carlo Guilliani, killed at the WTO-demonstrations in Genua at 21 june 2001. 

 ‘2001

On 01-01-2002, at 00.00 I laid down on the railtrack of the railway bridge ‘De Schie’ in Rotterdam. Unfortunately their were no trains, so I decided to jump naked from the bridge into the ice-cold water with the fireworks in the top. I registered everything in a sad and really happened movie.

Goodbye

At 21 July 2001 Carlo Gulinani died during a demonstration against the World Trade Organisation in Genua.
At 11 September 2001 thousands of anonymous people died in the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York.
They all have in common that they died for a new world order. I can’t wait any longer, in a few minutes their is for always peace. 

Ron

 ‘2002

During the Rotterdam Dance Parade Ron and Divina took naked place in a bath. Love Bath is inspired by the Love Parade in Berlin and the Love Bed from Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

‘2008

469 photo’s of the former Ghetto of Krakow. The photo’s will be exhibited in 2008 in the Photo Historic Museum of Krakow (www.erikvanloon.com/reconstruction/index.htm).

Exhibitions

Gallery de Oplichterij

Rotterdam, Jun 2001

The Clothesline

Drawings and sketches of ‘The Clothesline’ an installation inspired by the countless clotheslines in the narrow streets of Porto.

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

Rotterdam, Jan 2003

2020: An art odyssey

Nominated for the best young artist of Rotterdam.

Defka

Rotterdam, Mrt 2003

2020: An art odyssey

Exposition

Divers Galleries

Throughout the Netherlands

Artpackages

Since January 2003 I sell artpackages in different gallery throughout the Netherlands. The packages contain 102 artcards and a catalogue from the 2000 Masterpiece serie.

Divers Galleries

Throughout the Netherlands

52 x Van Loon – A media artwork

Since January 2005 I sell artpackages in different gallery throughout the Netherlands. The packages contain 102 artcards and a catalogue from the 2000 Masterpiece serie.

Education

Academy Willem de Kooning

Rotterdam

Aug 1998 – Jan 2001

Study:

Sculpture (3d)

Topics:

Arthistory, sculpture and drawing.

HES-Rotterdam (University of Economics)

Rotterdam

Aug 1992 - Jan 1998

Study:

Business Economics

Topics:

Business Economics, Business administration, Business Calculation, General Economics, English, Dutch, Information Technology, Business Organisation and Logistics.