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The Commoners' Society
Kasper van Moll
Year of birth: 1992
Place of birth: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
kaspervanmoll@gmail.com
go to sandberg student page
Place of birth: Nijmegen, The Netherlands
kaspervanmoll@gmail.com
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biography
Kasper van Moll (1992, Netherlands)(MFA The Commoners’ Society, Sandberg Instituut) is an artist who uses his musical background as a starting point for art production. Developing band-performances that are inspired by their context, he brings elements from music to art, to study them and use them as starting points for new work, often resulting in temporary ‘bands’ under his label Broken Toaster Records. Interested in subcultures like the punks and musical culture and practice in general, van Moll researches the mechanisms behind the emergence of a subculture. Something Happened Here
Friendships, music, amateurism and weirdness are fundamental to Kasper van Moll’s (Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1992) work. Something Happened Here features painterly, performative and auditive reinterpretations of memories and experiences between three good friends. Van Moll’s paintings show fictionalised versions of personal experiences in which he felt most connected with others. It’s not about depicting certain memories as precisely as possible, but rather about finding something hidden behind the physical reality of those moments, using the flat surface as both a fixative and as a means to share. Something Happened Here can be seen both as an ode to collectivity as well as collectivity as a praxis: a methodology of re-remembering, reminiscing, recycling, remixing and recreation. SHARE
