about the artist :
Nemo JANTZEN

Nemo Jantzen plays with focus, creating a sense of depth, thus bringing into question the act of voyeurism and the anticlimactic and revelatory nature of privacy.

In his hyperrealistic work, Nemo Jantzen is much inspired by film and tries to capture details of highly enlarged objects or photographic moments in time. These scenes portray often decadent and noir-style subject matters with a story to tell - like a movie still with an open ending - deliberately avoiding eye contact that could give away the personality of the painted subjects, as to not interfere with the imagination of the spectator. This compells us to think and imagine what has happened or what will happen next. Intrigued by light and the mystery of darkness, Jantzen plays with focus, creating a sense of depth and connecting the image and viewer through the inclusion of the optical vocabulary of cinematography, and the allusion to the constraints of the instant polaroid.

In his mixed-media body work, Nemo Jantzen wishes to capture and address the times we live in. In particular the voyeurism of hidden cameras and video surveillance that have become accepted in our society, creating awareness of this invasion of privacy for our own perverted need to watch and to know everything. In the name of safety and control, and fed by the media, this imagery has changed into entertainment and pleasure. He depicts public figures that became common good and through a language of blurred and pixelated imagery, photographic stills and scenes that can tell whole stories in one glance. His pieces together form pixelated shapes that merely suggest an image that our imagination transforms into flowing and complete figures. The missing details and shortage of information stimulates our imagination to fill in the blanks and create the excitement. With large-scale images built out of hundreds of small images; stories incapsulated in glass spheres the work simply keeps repeating to the viewers. In a word : “The closer you look, the less you see”.

Reflexion / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
55 x 39.5 in (140 x 100 cm)
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2074
Keep real / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
47.5 x 39.3 in (120 x 100 cm)
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1967
Pointbreak / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
59 x 51 in (150 x 130 cm)
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2014
Gloss / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
57 x 47.5 in (145 x 120 cm)
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1872
Studio 54 / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
55 x 43.5 in (130 x 110 cm)
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1870
Space Odyssey / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
48 x 52.7 in (122 x 134 cm)
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24,160 US$
1953
Let's get it on / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
44 x 47.5 in (112 x 120 cm)
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1829
Saturated / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
50 x 51 in (127.5 x 130 cm)
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1891
POW / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
48 x 47 in (122 x 120 cm)
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2067
last night / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
47.5 x 51 in (120 x 130 cm)
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1758
From the dark / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
51 x 51 in (130 x 130 cm)
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1744
Rome (Without Plexi) / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
47.5 x 59 in (120 x 150 cm)
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1980
Ericeira / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
59 x 47.5 in (140 x 120 cm)
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1631
Untitled / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media, plexiglass box
47 x 55 in (120 x 140 cm)
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1958
Untitled / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media, plexiglass box
47 x 55 in (120 x 140 cm)
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1820
Untitled / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media, plexiglass box
47 x 55 in (120 x 140 cm)
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1923
NYFW / Nemo JANTZEN
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44 x 45 in (112 x 115 cm)
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3426
Off the rack / Nemo JANTZEN
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44 x 46 in (112,5 x 117 cm)
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2227
Gotta B Funky / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
42 x 57 in (106,5 x 143,75 cm)
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2691
Vinyl / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
44 x 49 in (112,5 x 124 cm)
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2403
Take 2 / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
44 x 45 in (112,5 x 113,5 cm)
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2367
Sun Rays black / Nemo JANTZEN
Mixed media
63 x 63 in (160 x 161 cm)
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2831