Taco Sipma

Artist / Painter

Artist Statement

Art brut, folk art, anxiety, humor, compulsivity, expression, naïvity, superstition, melancholy, amateurism, ignorance, failure, graphic design, typography, symbolism, (secret) language, colour, signs, Walt  Disney, (art)history, religion, ex-voto, idolatry, the golden calf, rituals, delusional systems, conspiracy theories, (mis)communication,  propaganda, figuration, (anti)esthetics, the malfunctional, confusion, the banal, the grotesque, the conscious, the sub-conscious, the irrational, the sublime, the infantile, Barbapappa, antropomorfism, nostalgia, vanitas, chaos, heraldic, pop culture, post-modernism and kitsch... Making no distinction between stupid or clever, important or futile, abstract or concrete.

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