#3: Arnout Meijer
The work of Arnout Meijer covers several disciplines ranging from artworks, public sculptures, architectural interventions, interiors, writing and product design. Despite the multidisciplinary approach all projects are originated from the same theme: light and perception. The way we perceive the world around us defines our reality. Optical illusions are not merely temporary exceptions, but precisely these effects shape the reality as we see it. Meijer uses the illusionary effects of our way of seeing to create his works. He reveals the unhidden systems that control our visual perception and he questions the difference between reality and illusion. By sculpting with light, he manipulates its spatial and sensory properties while illuminating the aesthetics and immateriality. His mind-bending installations and lighting devices have been displayed in magazines, museum exhibits and galleries worldwide.
Differential comparison
Jurgen Bey - ‘Proofflab magazine’
Merleau Ponty - ‘De wereld waarnemen’
Paul Cezanne - ‘Mont Sainte-Victoire’ 1905
Marshell McLuhan – ‘Hot en Cold media’
Lawrence Weschler - 'True to Life’, biografie David Hockney
Masolino – ‘St. Peter Healing a Cripple and the Raising of Tabitha’, 1425 – Perspective Renaissance
Pablo Picasso - 'Portrait of Dora Maar', 1937
David Hockney – ‘Mother I, Yorkshire Moors, August 1985 No.1’, 1985
The realism of illusion, on the reality of visual perception, 2015
Visual illusion - Mirage
Cultural illusion - Kim Kardashian
Optical illusion 1
Optical illusion 2
‘16 Feet of Twilight’, 2015
Object O, 2014
Beau Lotto - ‘Why we see what we do redux’
8-bit Universe, 2015
8-bit Universe, 2015
Movie reconstruction from human brain activity
Simulacra
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