Maarten Demmink (Demiak): Fragmented canvases and assembled disasters.

Maarten Demmink has been painting disasters for over twenty years. Known as Demiak, the Dutch artist moves between painting, photography, and sculpture—documenting catastrophes like Lisbon 1755, Katrina 2005, Deepwater Horizon 2010 as damaged vintage photographs or staged dioramas. His work depicts ruins without the people who suffered them. He describes collage as destroying existing images and building them into new ones, giving shape to fragmentation. For two decades, he’s worked in buildings about to be demolished, making work about precarity […] The post Maarten Demmink (Demiak): Fragmented canvases and assembled disasters. appeared first on The Weird Show.