Jean-Marc Spaans
The photographs of Jean-Marc Spaans have been described as paintings with light. His photographs have something of a disappearing act about them. Deliberately choosing a long exposure time, he draws trails of light through space with coloured neon tubes.
What is Spaans? A visual artist? A performance artist? A light actor, or a photographer after all? There is one crucial thing that distinguishes the photographer Spaans from his colleagues: he never pushes the camera button himself. As a conceiver, he is more of a performance artist, albeit that the performance suggests itself only after the event. The here and now of the performance exist in the imagination only. By manipulating these tubes he captures contours of non-existing objects and shapes, the form of geometric patterns, swirling dansers, furniture and architecture. In this way the camera captures the trails of light, the precise actions of the maker, who is often the model and maker at the same time.
Here is a selection of collections containing work of Jean-Marc Spaans: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Noord-Brabants museum, Den Bosch. Swedish Arts Council, Sweden. Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, USA. Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem. Photo Collection of Erasmus University, Rotterdam and numerous private collections.
Untitled, 1998
Jean-Marc Spaans
Perspex on dibond
180cm x 120cm
Edition 5
Price 7.500
(also in collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen - website)
Untitled, 2018
Jean-Marc Spaans
Perspex on dibond
50cm x 75cm
Edition 10
Price 2.150
Untitled, 2012
Jean-Marc Spaans
Perspex on dibond
125cm x 200cm
Edition 8
Price 8.100
Jean-Marc Spaans
Untitled, 2012
Perspex on dibond
55cm x 55cm
Edition 10
Price 1.950
Jean-Marc Spaans
Untitled, 2012
Perspex on dibond
60cm x 40cm
Edition 10
Price 2.050