{"id":1051,"date":"2021-09-01T22:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/?page_id=1051"},"modified":"2025-11-07T19:52:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:52:02","slug":"profile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andrebrocatus.com\/art\/profile","title":{"rendered":"Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Brocatus (1970) studied image- and media technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1996 with a series of interactive video installations. Since 2005 He has been working as an independent interaction designer and design consultant, and has been making art using digital media and computer code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He uses existing images, often famous artworks or high fashion photography, which he transforms using digital technology. He uses computer programs to analyse of simplify or combine the images into new pictures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These pictures suggest new connections between seemingly unrelated artworks, images and ideas, and expose underlying structures and assumptions about their technical construction. These digital images are often presented in a material form which connects them to the physical reality, by using correspondences in scale and shifts in medium and color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The seemingly simple and minimal images are often created and presented in series, building up ever more connections and new suggested meaning, looking to reveal a mystic truth about art and reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Andr\u00e9 Brocatus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1970 in Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands<br>Lives and works in Utrecht, the Netherlands <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1989-1994: Image- and Media Technology, HKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>1995-1996: MA Image Synthesis and Computer animation, HKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected exhibitions: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2025, Bos Fine Art summer group expo, Erasmuslaan 9, Utrecht, the Netherlands <br>2025, <em>Ontdek Kunst in Utrecht <\/em>(Group exhibition), kuub.space, Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2025, <em>Under Construction After Party<\/em> (Group exhibition), Post Erasmuslaan 9, Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2025, <em>De Grote Nederlandse Kunst Kalender<\/em>, publicatie Uitgeverij Trichis (art calendar with 365 artists), the Netherlands<br>2024, <em>Excavated Colors<\/em>, kuub.space (Duo presentation with Cor van der Meijden), Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2024, <em>Driving Dutch Design Festival<\/em> (Group exhibition), Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2024, <em>Under Construction<\/em>, Essentie@Octacube\u00a0(Group exhibition), Delft, the Netherlands<br>2023, <em>Meet the Makers<\/em>, The Hmm\u00a0(Group exhibition), Amsterdam, the Netherlands<br>2023, <em>MAAK RUIMTE<\/em>, Post Erasmuslaan\u00a0(Group exhibition), Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2020, Monochromasters, Post Erasmuslaan (Solo exhibition), Utrecht, the Netherlands<br>2010, An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, MASS MoCA\u00a0(Group Exhibition), Massachussets, USA <br>1992, RAM:, Theater Zeebelt\u00a0(Group exhibition), Den Haag, the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collections:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Brocatus features in various national and international private collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact details:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Studio:<br>KUUB.SPACE<br>Pieterstraat 3<br>3512JT, Utrecht<br>the Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website:<br>www.andrebrocatus.com\/art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email:<br>andre@brocatus.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist profile, -picture, -statement,  exhibitions and press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1622,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Andr\u00e9 Brocatus (1970) studied image- and media technology at the Utrecht School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1996 with a series of interactive video installations. Since 2005 He has been working as an independent interaction designer and design consultant, and has been making art using digital media and computer code.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>He uses existing images, often famous artworks or high fashion photography, which he transforms using digital technology. He uses computer programs to analyse of simplify or combine the images into new pictures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>These pictures suggest new connections between seemingly unrelated artworks, images and ideas, and expose underlying structures and assumptions about their technical construction. 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