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Toon Van Ishoven (Antwerp, Belgium, °1968) is a visual artist who works with different media. He makes paintings, performances, video-installations and environments. Despite the differentiality of these media there are recurring themes and motives throughout his work. Sometimes video-recordings become motives for paintings, or on other occasions a work starts off as a performance but is transformed into a video-installation later on; also, scale-models for installations become autonomous sculptures in their own right, etc.

"I'm not intrested in multi-media for its own sake. I'm intrested in works of art that hold the possiblity of leading their own life. Not because of the excitement of technical virtuality but because they allow us to reflect in an allegorical way on essential concepts of life like identity, energy, awareness of time etc. I want to make constructions of light and space that can hopefully refresh the viewer's senses." (tvi)

Next to this gradual build-up of personal artistic work he often teams up with personalities and organisations fom the world of theatre, dance etc. He worked together with Belgian choreographers as Marc Vanrunxt, Stijn Celis, Marc Bogaerts, Marie De Corte, visual artist Max Couper (UK), director/designer Niek Kortekaas, director Ignace Cornelissen, writer Tom Lanoye and organisations as MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Monty, KVS/De Bottelarij, Het Gevolg, De Beweeging (centre for contemporary dance), de Brakke Grond, the City of Ostend, Ballet Gulbenkian (Portugal) a.o.

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last update: August, 2011