Dominique Kerkhove (DomKcollage)
When the city cries the tears appear!
Biography
Kerkhove Dominique, alias Dom(K) is an artist, Euro citizen, tireless walker and patient observer, he search on the walls of cities what makes my raw material: the poster. Ecological Realistic, he use what already exists to transform it. He create "Made-Ready" (or collages) from torn posters. He breathe a new destiny into an ephemeral urban creation to make a contemporary work that fits into time. Free from the straitjacket of a specific doctrine, he recognize, however, a technical proximity used by certain artists: exploitation of under posters (Dufresnes), all over (Pollock), take-off (Vostell). Made-Ready is not a style of collage but an approach that expresses itself through a plurality of pictorial forms whose central element is the paper (poster) resulting (torn) from an urban context. Despite various attempts at hierarchical classification, my work is in no way allegorical. It is concrete and materialistic. It is a narrative work of incarnation. I consciously try to give body to the sensations and perceptions, ideas and values, which constitute my artistic universe. With his Made-Ready he translate his emotions into evolving series (questionings) whose themes address a society in full industrial, moral and climatic change. Made-Ready" where he invite the spectator to react on his own certainties and evidences. A subtle game between voluntary and involuntary memory. Close to the art brut, I define my resolutely abstract positioning for a thematic yet figurative of our society."
Influences
art naif, pop art, basquiat, villeglé, rotella, dufresnes, art brut, PaperInK, LArtBatard, ArtMaterialiste, ArtFiguratif
Education
1998-2015 Photographe Paris, France
The artist at work
Solo Expositions
2023 DomKcollage sur les murs de L'escargot Dunkerque, France
2023 Portes Ouverts Ateliers d( Artistes du Nord Dunkerque, France
2023 D-Kollage Leffrinckoucke, 59, France
2022 1 vitrine, 1 oeuvre - @MelanieMontaigne.archi Dunkerque, 59, France
2022 D-Kollage Dunkerque, 59, France
2020 Art Subway Dunkerque, 59, France
2019 Dom(K) Carnaval Dunkerque, 59, France
2019 Bangla Biennale Komdhara, India
2017 Hey You Paris, 75001, France
2016 Artistic Alya Tel Avi, Israel
2016 There is a doctor in the bar - Florentin Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Accrochage / Ground Control Paris, 75018, France
2015 #Vive la vie ! - A Côté - Paris, 75011, France
2015 Accrochage - TEDx Dunkerque, 59, France
2015 Do You Know Dom(K) Dunkerque, 59, France
Collective Expositions
2023 Galerie Le Passage Cassel, France
2023 Exposition Artbox Projects New York/Manhattan, United States
2022 ARéoport Bergues, 59, France
2022 KiwArt5 Dunkerque, 59, France
2022 Pol Art Dunkerque, France
2021 Expo Métro Monaco, France
2021 Porte Ouverte Lycée Le Corbusier Tourcoing, France
2021 Expo Métro New York, United States
2021 Galerie du Passage Cassel, France
2020 Exposition Ephemire PARIS 11, France
2019 Exposition « Polaroid Artistic » Nevers, France
2019 Exposition « Polaroid Artistic » Clermont Ferrand, France
2019 White City Night - Tel Aviv, Israel
2017 Narrative Moovements Pondicherry, India
Permanent Collections
2023 Galerie Le Passage Cassel, France
2018 Links Hôtel Tel Aviv, France
2018 Galerie Federson 57 rue de Turenne - 75003 Paris, France
Residencies
2019 " TransFormation " - Curator Massimo Constantini - Casa Grassi Sérole, Italy
2019 Banga Biennale Komdhara, India
2017 Hey You Ercourt, France
2016 Urban Secret Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 No sens - Dune Hôtel - Pondicherry, India