Robert Van BOLDERICK
1968, Sweden
Robert van Bolderick (born in Stockholm, 1968) have both Swedish and Dutch descent and moved at the age of eleven with his family to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Growing up in the pulse of a cosmopolitan city and its mix of nationalities gave him an early interest in the various countries language and symbols.
In 1987 the family moved back to Stockholm where he continued with school studies and further educated in art. Since the late 80 ‘s, working as an artist and then mostly in mixed media and with inspiration from travels to Central America, Asia and Europe.
Was involved in the project Children Art Museum in Stockholm in the late 90’s. Produced exhibitions / workshops at the World Congress in child psychiatry with Astrid Lindgren’s Hospital, School Expo with Future School, Culture trolley with SJ, the largest train operator in Sweden.
Works in his private studio in Stockholm and in the summer in
the Stockholm archipelago close to nature and the sea, and in the south of Spain in the late summer and fall.
As an artist, he uses techniques such as oil painting, sculpture, watercolor and photography and mixed media with newspaper clippings, sheet music, old photos and flyers. In the creation he contrasts ancient and modern symbols.
This will create an image in which the meanings of the adjacent symbols change. Uses hieroglyphs and cave paintings along with the modern symbols of our mass media society, old family pictures, notes, recent event or historical peeping out in texts and images. This creates a picture where these symbols lose their inherent symbolic value and become part of a new image.
Available at many private collectors in Sweden, the U.S., Europe, and companies such as Sweden’s parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Dutch Embassy, Stockholm, the Swedish Embassy, Vienna, Hotel Park Inn, Kabi Pharmacia Upjohn, Rank Xerox.