Hein Dingemans
Hein Dingemans (b.1962) is fascinated by primitive societies: Sudan blacks from South Nigeria, Tutsis from Rwanda, Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands and Aborigines. Dingemans’ native people all stand in impressive bodybuilding poses. In Dingemans’ early work, the large phalluses, now seen, were not as prominent, being hidden behind guitars, but now they have developed into an extreme size because they have been ‘invigorated by an overdose of Viagra pills’.
Sometimes Dingemans names his figures after himself saying, “That is perhaps what I would like to look like, but then to a lesser degree”. He says he draws his potential alter egos as a form of sexual release. A second way in which Dingemans releases tension is through weather which he is fascinated by. In his recent work, weather plays an increasingly frequent role.
Dingemans lives in Schiedam and work in Rotterdam at Atelier Herenplaats.
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2019 Outsider Art Fair, Atelier Richelieu, Paris (with Galerie Herenplaats)
2018 Art Brut Biënnale, Hengelo
2018 Keiharde Kunst, Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam
2013 Borelo-Lifemap, Artium, Fuhuoka, Japan
2010 Outsider Art Fair, New York (with Galerie Herenplaats)
