Marlies Merkelbach

Series 0/20 47 cm x 44 cm Satin Photopaper Fine Art print Black frame, museum glass The Wild Card Collection consist out of a collage made of 35 Wild Cards. The artist came in the possession of a collection of around 3000 Joker playing cards and made a selection for this created collage-work. A wild card also known as the Joker in card games is one that may be used to represent any other playing card, sometimes with certain restrictions. The Joker is a special card that was created at the end of the 19th century, it was only introduced in the Netherlands in 1909.

Series 0/20 47 cm x 44 cm Satin Photopaper Fine Art print Black frame, museum glass The Wild Card Collection consist out of a collage made of 35 Wild Cards. The artist came in the possession of a collection of around 3000 Joker playing cards and made a selection for this created collage-work. A wild card also known as the Joker in card games is one that may be used to represent any other playing card, sometimes with certain restrictions. The Joker is a special card that was created at the end of the 19th century, it was only introduced in the Netherlands in 1909.

Sensing data. Perceiving coloured surface object. In front of me a white page on the screen. Observing red coloured object. Staring. Blinking twice. Staring. Twenty one, twenty two, twenty tree, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven. Move. Eyes focussing on white surface. Appearance of a similar shape. Slightly blurred. Colored cyan. In the work “Sense Data afterimage” a natural phenomenon of the human eye is visualised in a serie of 3 installations. The installations show various projections in which 3 coloured objects are composed. The objects, that have references to compositions of forms from the public space, are presented with a representation of their (negative) afterimage. The afterimages in the installation are based on the artists experience by perceiving the original color objects where the visual outcome is digital re-created model. The digital-modelled afterimage of complementary colour-shapes were projected on the original surface of the objects.

Wild Card Collection – Collage (2020) Series 0/20 47cm x 44 cm Satin Photopaper Fine Art print Black frame, museum glass The Wild Card Collection consist out of a collage made of 35 Wild Cards. The artist came in the possession of a collection of around 3000 Joker playing cards and made a selection for this created collage-work. A wild card also known as the Joker in card games is one that may be used to represent any other playing card, sometimes with certain restrictions. The Joker is a special card that was created at the end of the 19th century, it was only introduced in the Netherlands in 1909.

Serie 0/20 100 x 100 cm Satin Photo paper Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass The project Rotation Light Circle contains a serie of 5 photographs where the concept of Light and Movement is central. The artist build in here studio an installation consist out of a wheel, tripod and a multi coloured led-light device. She photographed by dark light conditions the moving light-installation. While photographing, the wheel is driven by the artist by the use of a drilling machine up to 30km/h.

Serie 0/20 100 x 100 cm Satin Photo paper Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass The project Rotation Light Circle contains a serie of 5 photographs where the concept of Light and Movement is central. The artist build in here studio an installation consist out of a wheel, tripod and a multi coloured led-light device. She photographed by dark light conditions the moving light-installation. While photographing, the wheel is driven by the artist by the use of a drilling machine up to 30km/h.

Epson Matte Paper-Heavyweight Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass Imported image contents, digitally drawn visuals, composed sound-works reopened, transformed and exported to JPEG. The series “Image for sound image” uses contents from different mediums, and was edited and transformed by the ‘Macintosh operating system’ application, that allows the creation of sound from images. This digital program generates and manipulates the given contents by reading the colours and brightness of the pixels.

In the project Oscilloscope Merkelbach experimented with a measuring instrument from electrical engineering that can make cyclic variations in an electrical quantity clearly visible. The oscilloscope. The measurements are made with different frequencies interchangeably.

Rotation Light Circle (2019) Serie 0/20 100 x 100 cm Satin Photo paper Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass The project Rotation Light Circle contains a serie of 5 photographs where the concept of Light and Movement is central. The artist build in here studio an installation consist out of a wheel, tripod and a multi coloured led-light device. She photographed by dark light conditions the moving light-installation. While photographing, the wheel is driven by the artist by the use of a drilling machine up to 30km/h.

Serie 02/05 112 x 190cm Hahnemuhle Matte Paper-Heavyweight Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass In the series HzO 5-115Hz Merkelbach investigates the transformation processes between two different mediums. From Hertz to JPEG. These serie of experiments show the substantial influence of liquid-water that is exposed to the vibrations of frequencies. Making sound visible. In March 2018 the artist built a device in her studio that can transform sound, and convert it into it’s visual representation.The device consists of; a loudspeaker, plexiglass plate, (laboratory) petri glass, water, amplifier and a tone generator. The device generated sound through the connected tone generator where the water is catches by the vibrations. Different patterns are created depending on the driven frequency, the given time period and the amount of volume. HzO 5-115Hz shows an overview of 28 black and white photographs, in which the artist has captured the patterns from 5 to 115 Hertz with her camera.

GRADUATION SHOW GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE 2019 GRADUATION SHOW 2019: 3 – 7 JULY OPENING: Wednesday, 3 July, 4pm. 165 graduates will present their work in, around and on top of our three academy buildings. 14 departments will take part: Architectural Design, designLAB, Fashion, Graphic Design, Jewellery – linking bodies, TXT (Textile), Ceramics, Fine Arts, The Large Glass, Beeld en Taal, Photography, VAV – moving image, DOGtime Expanded Painting and DOGtime Unstable Media. https://rietveldacademie.nl/

GRADUATION SHOW GERRIT RIETVELD ACADEMIE 2019 GRADUATION SHOW 2019: 3 – 7 JULY OPENING: Wednesday, 3 July, 4pm. 165 graduates will present their work in, around and on top of our three academy buildings. 14 departments will take part: Architectural Design, designLAB, Fashion, Graphic Design, Jewellery – linking bodies, TXT (Textile), Ceramics, Fine Arts, The Large Glass, Beeld en Taal, Photography, VAV – moving image, DOGtime Expanded Painting and DOGtime Unstable Media. https://rietveldacademie.nl/

Epson Matte Paper-Heavyweight Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass Imported image contents, digitally drawn visuals, composed sound-works reopened, transformed and exported to JPEG. The series “Image for sound image” uses contents from different mediums, and was edited and transformed by the ‘Macintosh operating system’ application, that allows the creation of sound from images. This digital program generates and manipulates the given contents by reading the colours and brightness of the pixels.

50 x 75cm Epson Inktjet Satin Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass This photographic work of spectral color effects consist out of 3 images, where different light sources where used. These photographs present the result of a spectroscopic study into the effect of the light spectrum, and the interaction between light, and transmissive diffraction gratings. This optical component with periodic structures of parallel lines split, diffract and directs the light into several directions. Led-tubes, rings and incandescent lightbulbs were used by the artist in creating the effect of transformative light results in the work Transmissive D-gratings.

50 x 75cm Epson Inktjet Satin Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass This photographic work of spectral color effects consist out of 3 images, where different light sources where used. These photographs present the result of a spectroscopic study into the effect of the light spectrum, and the interaction between light, and transmissive diffraction gratings. This optical component with periodic structures of parallel lines split, diffract and directs the light into several directions. Led-tubes, rings and incandescent lightbulbs were used by the artist in creating the effect of transformative light results in the work Transmissive D-gratings.

Serie 0/15 150 x 200cm Projection-Installation, tranparant coloured plexiglass, RVS, carton High-Gloss Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass Sensing data. Perceiving coloured surface object. In front of me a white page on the screen. Observing red coloured object. Staring. Blinking twice. Staring. Twenty one, twenty two, twenty tree, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven. Move. Eyes focussing on white surface. Appearance of a similar shape. Slightly blurred. Colored cyan. In the work “Sense Data afterimage” a natural phenomenon of the human eye is visualised in a serie of 3 installations. The installations show various projections in which 3 coloured objects are composed. The objects, that have references to compositions of forms from the public space, are presented with a representation of their (negative) afterimage. The afterimages in the installation are based on the artists experience by perceiving the original color objects where the visual outcome is digital re-created model. The digital-modelled afterimage of complementary colour-shapes were projected on the original surface of the objects.

Serie 0/15 150 x 200cm Projection-Installation, tranparant coloured plexiglass, RVS, carton High-Gloss Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass Sensing data. Perceiving coloured surface object. In front of me a white page on the screen. Observing red coloured object. Staring. Blinking twice. Staring. Twenty one, twenty two, twenty tree, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven. Move. Eyes focussing on white surface. Appearance of a similar shape. Slightly blurred. Colored cyan. In the work “Sense Data afterimage” a natural phenomenon of the human eye is visualised in a serie of 3 installations. The installations show various projections in which 3 coloured objects are composed. The objects, that have references to compositions of forms from the public space, are presented with a representation of their (negative) afterimage. The afterimages in the installation are based on the artists experience by perceiving the original color objects where the visual outcome is digital re-created model. The digital-modelled afterimage of complementary colour-shapes were projected on the original surface of the objects.

Epson Inktjet Satin Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass This photographic work of spectral color effects consist out of 3 images, where different light sources where used. These photographs present the result of a spectroscopic study into the effect of the light spectrum, and the interaction between light, and transmissive diffraction gratings. This optical component with periodic structures of parallel lines split, diffract and directs the light into several directions. Led-tubes, rings and incandescent lightbulbs were used by the artist in creating the effect of transformative light results in the work Transmissive D-gratings.

Epson Matte Paper-Heavyweight Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass Imported image contents, digitally drawn visuals, composed sound-works reopened, transformed and exported to JPEG. The series “Image for sound image” uses contents from different mediums, and was edited and transformed by the ‘Macintosh operating system’ application, that allows the creation of sound from images. This digital program generates and manipulates the given contents by reading the colours and brightness of the pixels.

Serie 0/20 100 x 100 cm Satin Photo paper Fine Art Print Black frame, museum glass The project Rotation Light Circle contains a serie of 5 photographs where the concept of Light and Movement is central. The artist build in here studio an installation consist out of a wheel, tripod and a multi coloured led-light device. She photographed by dark light conditions the moving light-installation. While photographing, the wheel is driven by the artist by the use of a drilling machine up to 30km/h.