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Aimee
Terburg
Graaf Adolfstraat 4a
9717EE Groningen
aimeeterburg@gmail.com
Tel: 050-3118854 /
06-17764767
Btw nr: 1942.24.879B01 |
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PHOTO
BOOK CAMIONS: THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT
Aimee Terburg has
photographed backsides of trucks and trailers. She chooses
these specific backsides that resemble abstract paintings
to her. During one year she exchanged her brush and paint
for the highway and camera to do so. With the selection of
55 pictures from a collection of 400, a comprehensible, no
nonsense photo book came into being. It is a collection of
paintings picked from reality. After viewing this book you
will never look at trucks in the same way.
The
design of this book is sober. In ‘Camions’ the
photographs are exclusively printed on the right side of the
pages. By this effect you’re -besides rhythm and plane
division, colour, shape and detail- seduced to walking the
pages, seduced to examine and re-examine. Through comparing
hinges and locks, tracks in the dirt, tail lights or reflectors
differences become visible and give each backside its own
character. By the choices she made, the trucks are seen in
a new way and their functionality changes into beauty.
Background
information
Aimee
Terburg (1971) is a visual artist, graduated from the Art
Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands in 1994. Her
main focus is on the theme ‘abstract landscape’.
She expresses her concepts in paint on the edge of abstraction
and figuration. In her projects she also combines the disciplines
3 dimensional, photography and ‘site specific writing’.
The comprehensive principle of these disciplines is her artistic
vision, allowing her to shape the edges of the art of painting.
Her
plan to publish a photo book originated 2,5 years ago. Working
as a par time courier since 2004 she encountered a lot of
truck backsides. She thought that many of them immediately
fitted in the abstract art painting history. Observing these
trailer backsides, different things stood out like: locks,
tracks in the dirt or the overprint. All based on the same
rectangular or round form; an abstract equality where each
specimen is still unique. In august of 2006 she finally decided
to transform her collected memories of beautiful back sides
into a tangible product through means of photography. She
started to photograph her preferred back sides at petrol stations,
truck-washes, boarder stations, truck stops and industrial
zones. In September 2007 she selected 55 photographs from
a collection of 400 and in November 2007 ‘Camions’
was printed.
With this photo book she wants us to notice the proximity
of art when you look a little bit longer:
“To me the highway is like a museum. Trucks drive always,
day in day out, through rain or shine. Sometimes I deliberately
remain behind a beautiful back side, a lucky encounter with
a huge painting in the landscape, I truly enjoy that. The
publication of these photographs gave me the opportunity to
observe these ‘daily traffic’ paintings longer.
It also invites to compare them mutually, every time other
details catch my eye, every day I have another favourite.”
Sorted by rhythm
of colour, plane division, form and detail Aimee Terburg shows
us her choice of back sides. The 55 photographs in ‘Camions’,
a book without text or explanation, changes the way we look
at back sides of trucks. Different compositions from this
collection of trailer back sides will be shown in future exhibitions.
On 3 December 2007 ‘Camions’ was published.
ISBN: 978-90-812311-1-4, Publisher Afterburn, impression 1000,
soft cover, 55 full colour photo’s, € 28.95
More
photos of Aimee Terburg visit: www.comixter.nl
More
information about other projects or art of Aimee Terburg visit:
www.aterburg.dds.nl
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