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Through Momo Luna S!gnals, the artist makes a name for . She tells stories, comments and exposes emotion through her very own visual language. Her work, drawings of usually small size, are clear in colour and form and are about women, or about how people like to position them or how they do it themselves. The weaker sex or the primal power of the all-rounder? We see Mother, Mistress, Object of Lust. We see vulnerability and pain, but also perspicacity and strength. The woman, in her 'combat uniform', is ready, because the battle is far from over.
Claar Griffioen Prikkeldraad 2012
Heather Killen about the Love and monsters exhibition, Bear river, Nova Scotia:
Like the B movie varieties, Love's monsters also come in different shapes and sizes. Love and monsters darker works paints questions of morality, pain, obsession and lust. Monica Croese, of Holland, sent a series of self-portraits, depicting a woman in various poses of bondage, pain and self-possession. Wayne Boucher's monster takes on a more abstract and patriotic love, with a playful foray into B movies within Captain Canuck's Revenge of the Cyclops. Separately, the pieces speak to personal themes and struggles, but together, they produce a visual spectrum ranging from expressions of innocence, obsession, fear and desire.
Eric van Grootel, eigenaar Galerie Stat21
Van Grootel was first introduced to the work of Monica Croese at the Regional Art Days in Arnhem. "Her iconographic style immediately gave me a feeling of: Wow, what's going on here? I can hardly stop watching. Her visual language leaves me with more questions than answers when I finally want to walk away.
Article by Angelica Obina in Online Kunstmagazine on the ocasion of the exhibition Ik ben de wond, ik ben het mes. .
TENTOONSTELLINGEN
2024
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Invocation
Duo exhibition with Angelica Obino
Galerie De Sleedoorn Zetten
2022
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Secret garden
Groupexhibition.
Concept & composition:
Monica Croese
NDDA Ubbergen
2021
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Micksart Collectief Emmen
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Light
City cinema Rembrandt Arnhem
Coronaproof showcase exhibition.
2020
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I am the wound, i am the knife
Groupexhibition
Concept & composition:
Monica Croese
Frame.de.galerie Amersfoort
2019
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I am the wound, i am the knife
Groupexhibition
Frame.de.galerie Amersfoort
2018
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I am the wound, i am the knife
With Elisabeth Peters.
NDDA Ubbergen -
Sur la route
Compiler Rick Kewal.
De Heemtuin Presikhaaf Arnhem
2017
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Exterior Interior
Saks Open Arnhem -
Weib!
Groupexhibition -
Concept & composition:
Monica Croese
VM23 Arnhem -
Wintersalon
Groupexhibition & artsale.
VM23 Arnhem -
Bizarre
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At the invitation of Lilian Regtvoort
Writers cafe Oscar.
B53 Arnhem
2016
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Vision
Writers cafe Oscar
Living room exhibition
Arnhem
EXHIBITIONS
2015
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Between black and white
Saks Open Arnhem -
The way to the end
is the way to the beginning.....
With Steven Leyba.
iLLUSEUM Amsterdam
2014
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The dream time * Head above water
with Menah and Sir Dark Green.
iLLUSEUM Amsterdam -
Strangeness
with Sir Dark Green
& Alexander v/d Woel
Saks Open Arnhem
2013
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Display
with Sander Terbruggen,
Bertus de Veth, Marjo de Maat
Stat 21 Venray -
Artmarket Saksen Weimar Arnhem
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National Artdays
Van Nelle ontwerpfabriek Rotterdam -
Regional artday
Townhall Arnhem
Selected by the professional jury and
Visitors to participate the National -
Artdays.
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Love and monsters
At the invitation of Ken Flett.
The Rebekah Gallery
Bear River Nova Sctia Canada
2012
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Art that circles the earth
At the invitation of Shana Goetsch
MICA Place, Baltimore USA -
Barbed wire
At the invitation of Claar Griffioen.
with a.o. Gebroeders Miedema,
Erwin Olaf, Ronald Ophuis
Dek22 Rotterdam
1996
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Sacred houses
The visual arts route
Named as KRYBDYR
With Jan Dekker & RobertDeeters
Oerol, Ameland
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Article by Angelica Obina in Online Kunstmagazine
On the occasion of the exhibition I am the wound, i am the knife.....
There is not much room in this day and age for gnawing misery elevated to something lovely in free expression. Rawness is the Post Modernist equivalent of discomfort. And that in a world that is deeply rooted in its own suffering.
The times of the small big story come and go from man to globalization and must be pushed back into the already represented personal responsibility. Human questions of life that Elisabeth and Monica turn into engaged art. In a frank conversation with Elisabeth and Monica, these contradictions came to the fore. Together, they try to elevate the decay of suffering to beauty.
It is clear that this does not always lead to a beautiful work of art for above the proverbial sofa, but the work is much more than that. You can admire the layering that can be found in it, in which personality and body discard the mundane like a coat and thus penetrate to the roots of our existence. This makes the work honest, open and universal, but then you have to dare to look and keep looking. In this way, both Elisabeth's monumental three-dimensional work, as well as Monica's brilliantly intriguing series of drawings and paintings, transcend themselves into archetypes, rites, spiritual experiences and purification. The ancient times dance by like ritual dances.