Ruud van Empel and The History of Collage

Eleanor Lerman
Jan 13, 2021

Ruud van Empel creates works that blend hyperrealism with artificiality, at once authentic yet uncannily surreal. His photographs, while physically existing before one’s eyes, do not truthfully exist at all. Weaving an intricate web of imagined picture planes, van Empel beckons you into his utopia, constructed and contrived into a smorgasbord of lush foliage, velvety skin, and piercing eyes.

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Eleanor Lerman

experiential exhibition reviews and art history musings.