Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle during the late 1990s. Roberto Voorbij (1974) lives and works in Amsterdam, holds a bachelor degree in Visual arts and Art History from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and has attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he took classes from a.o. ‘Untitled (Wanderer above the sea of fog)’ has been exhibited at Popinnart, Amsterdam, 2018. Despite the unique depiction being presented in a Warholesque manner as a repetitive series. Although the power of this masterpiece seems ultimately proven by the ease with which every appropriation of the image is averted. To what extent these books fit in with 'the spirit of Romanticism’ let alone Caspar David Friedrich's amazement about the manifestation of nature, specifically his individual experience of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, is the question. This icon of the Romantic movement is combined with various titles from 'Frankenstein' to 'Thus spoke Zarathustra', from 'Looking at Mindfullness' to 'A companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain', from story bundle to biography. Independent of each other, the publisher has chosen to use this classic by Caspar David Friedrich from 1817 as a front. Six books have been assembled in the readymade 'Untitled (Wanderer above the Sea of Fog)', all with the same painting as cover illustration. Readymade 6 books (all books are signed by the artist with title, year, place created, signature and artist name-stamp), 2 painting shelves.
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