About
this project
All came from the dust and all return to the dust. We are all equal, we are all born in the same way and dying is for all of us a heart that stops beating. As Shylock tells us in Shakespeares "Merchant of Venice": "I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is?"
Shylocks statement is not only valid for Jews and Christians, it is valid for all people on earth.
The monumental photographic exhibition artworks have been printed on the pages of an old catholic missal and a pocket bible.
Harrie Sevriens
"Ecce Homo" and "Between Heaven and Earth" have been combined with texts of the Dutch poet Harrie Sevriens (+ 2018). On the occasion of this exhibition he presented his last poetry book "Weet je"
About Luc ten Klooster
Luc ten Klooster is a Dutch visual artist. Please visit his official main site for more artworks and information.
For an impression of the first exhibitions in Kloosterbibliotheek Wittem Mai 7th-June 5th 2017 and in Germany CLICK HERE
April 28-Mai 19 2019
Ecce Homo was exhibited again in Haus Basten in Geilenkirchen (D)
October 5 - November 9 2019
Solo exhibition round Ecce Homo: Galerie Kunstwerk-Aachen (D) "Sternenstaub"
April 15th-24th 2022'
Kunstmoment Diepenheim'
Cultuurcentrum 'De Pol'
June 25- Sept 2 2023.
Dominicanen Boekhandel Maastricht.
For this exhibition under the title 'In medio stat Virtus', new compilations were made from the original photographic material around the title image.
Fellow artist Stefaan Vermeulen gave the work an extra dimension with his contribution.
Possible other arrangements of the four parts of Ecce Homo
A new variant (2023)
For an exhibition (together with the Belgian painter Stefaan Vermeulen) in the old 'Dominicanen church' in Maastricht (now a big bookshop) six new artworks were produced.
The space required a more modest format and an older work 'In medio stat Virtus' now served as the central title image. However, the main theme remained the same: who are we, where do we come from and where are we going? The dimensions of these six works are now 118 cm high. The width varies from 80 to 104 cm. This makes it possible to easily make various and consistent combinations.
The new works are surrounded by texts in Latin that are largely generated by AI. Texts about good and evil, about power and impotence.
