Kinke Kooi: Let Me Comfort You28 March - 25 April 2009  < 2009 page    < artist page
Interview with Kinke Kooi by Mirjam Westen

MW: Can you describe the physical feeling you experience while you draw? What goes on inside you?


KK: I derive pleasure from knitting everything together, so to speak—from being close to the paper while I’m drawing. Actually, all I do is comb hair and string beads. It’s a meditative way of working. I’m also always looking for an excuse to draw things I can’t seem to leave alone, like little balls. They represent things I’m attracted to: jewellery, beads and berries. I have a kind of primeval instinct to physically unite with things as I’m gathering them. It’s a form of clinging to things and drawing them towards me, a kind of eroticism and fertility… That’s why the rubbing and polishing of circles and spheres is important to me: I can almost feel the visual smoothness tingling in my fingertips. Somehow it gives me physical satisfaction: my eyes see what my hands want to feel. I once saw a commercial for an anti-wrinkle cream that visualized the cream’s beneficial effects as rubber balls energetically dancing up and down.

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Kinke Kooi, Be Careful She’s a Nester, 2009 kkf0901
  Kinke Kooi, Collective Love Song 4, 2009 kkf0904   Kinke Kooi, Flower Girl, 2009 kkf0906 Kinke Kooi, Gravity, 2009 kkf0902 Kinke Kooi, Logos, Eros, 2009 kkf0903 Kinke Kooi, Don’t be Ashamed, 2008 kkf0809   Kinke Kooi, I am a Believer, 2008 kkf0808   Kinke Kooi, Guts, 2008 kkf0807   Kinke Kooi, The Red Thread, 2008 kkf0805   Kinke Kooi, Hold Me Tight, 2008 kkf0804   Kinke Kooi, Housewife, 2008 kkf0801   Kinke Kooi, The Art of Picking, 2007 kkf0708   Kinke Kooi, Female View, 2007 kkf0707   Kinke Kooi, Digging for Origin, 2007 kkf0706   Kinke Kooi, Man, 2007 kkf0705   Kinke Kooi, Let me Comfort You, 2007  kkf0704   Kinke Kooi, Digging for Origin, 2007 kkf0703   Kinke Kooi, Baba Jaga, 2007 kkf0702  
spacer Be Careful She's a Nester, 2009;
acrylic paint, graphite on paper; 27.25 x 26"
Collective Love Song 4, 2009;
acrylic paint on photograph; 20.5 x 23.5"
Flower Girl, 2009; acrylic paint on paper; 18 x 24" Gravity, 2009; acrylic paint,
graphite on paper; 40.25 x 26"
Logos, Eros, 2009; acrylic paint,
graphite on paper; 30.125 x 22.5"
space Don't be Ashamed, 2008;
acrylic paint, graphite, collage on paper; 15.25 x 15"
space I am a Believer, 2008; graphite, colored pencil on paper; 22.5 x 30.125" space Guts, 2008; acrylic paint, colored pencil, graphite on paper; 30.125 x 22.5" space The Red Thread, 2008; acrylic paint, colored pencil, graphite on paper; 26.25 x 22.675" space Hold Me Tight, 2008; acrylic paint,
graphite on paper; 30.125 x 22.5 "
space Housewife, 2008; acrylic paint, collage on paper; 14.125 x 20.125" space The Art of Picking, 2007; graphite on paper; 24 x 22.5 " space Female View, 2007; acrylic paint on photograph; 23.5 x 30.5" space Digging for Origin, 2007; acrylic paint, pencil on paper; 27 x 18.5" space Man, 2007; acrylic paint on photo;
14.125 x 10.25"
space Let Me Comfort You, 2007; acrylic on paper; 14.125 x 20" space Digging for Origin, 2007; graphite, colored pencil,
and acrylic paint on paper; 22.5 x 20"
space Baba Jaga, 2007; acrylic paint
on photograph; 26 x 19.5"
space
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