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Thursday 5 OcTOber 2017
Tanja Ritterbex to Host Painting Workshop ‘Textile Hottie’

ORANJESTAD - Go creative her painting vivid and to
under the guidance of the provide it with new angles.
latest winner of the Royal We will also do that in the
Dutch Prize for Painting, workshop painting ‘Textile
Tanja Ritterbex, for a work- Hottie’, in which the par-
shop painting. Ateliers ’89 ticipants are first asked to
Academia di Bellas Artes make a simple tapestry.
Aruba offers the workshop The image that this yields
for a month long, Monday will then continue in the
to Thursday at 6.30 to 9.30 workshop as a basis for
pm. their paintings. In this way,
the participants are chal-
The workshop is the first lenged to step outside the
part of a two-piece painter fixed frameworks of paint-
workshops, which, under ing and re-discover paint-
the title Back to Basics, re- ing, taken by the hand by
search into the origin of the very painter Tanja Rit-
painting. These workshops terbex.

clothes, high-heels, nail pol- fashioned dress, while her (Zimbabwe) and Tel Aviv
ishes, cosmetics. Women face is ruddy and goofy. (Israel). Tanja received vari-
are depicted in their do- This type of representa- ous prizes for her work, in-
mestic realm, among ward- tion recalls images of ‘stu- cluding the Royal Prize for
robes, in the bathroom, in pid girls’ making ‘selfies’ in Free Painting in 2016 that
the private bedroom or do- their room with their clothes was handed to her by King
ing their everyday activities and cosmetics or a photo Willem-Alexander. Her work
– watching TV on a couch, from women’s magazines. has been purchased by
spending time with friends. Whereas the sketchy draw- museums and important
The female landscape sur- ing It’s me, eating naked corporate collections and
rounds all the characters. sushi is a self-portrait as well. is frequently exhibited inter-
It is apparent in the paint-
ing Me and My Room in
My Bad Hair Day, where in
the center of the composi-
are supported by the Prins tion there is a portrait of a
Bernhard Cultuurfonds Female Landscape girl (presumably of herself),
Caribisch Gebied. “If I could use only two showing her blond hair. She
Although Tanja Ritterbex is words to describe my work is in her cluttered room:
a genuine painter, her work I would say it is a ‘female there is a hanger full of col-
often moves at a cutting landscape’ (tanjaritterbex. orful, kitschy clothes, a shelf
edge with other disciplines, com)” This is how Ritterbex with nail polishes, boxes,
such as sculpture and per- describes the subject of a candlestick and other
formance. By doing so she her paintings. Indeed, they decorative objects. She is
constantly knows to keep are full of: colorful, girlish wearing also a colorful, old-

She is lying on the bed na- nationally.
ked, showing her vagina. This summer still in Brazil and
There are lots of pillows and before her visit to Aruba,
some sets of sushi around she travels to Moscow for
her. She represents herself an exhibition of her work.
in a private situation, in her She lives and is currently
room again, she is having working in Berlin.
relaxing time. Because Tanja will guide all
participants personally on
Painter’s Way their own level, the work-
Tanja Ritterbex studied the shop is suitable for every-
Academy for fine arts in one; advanced painters
Maastricht till 2006, after and beginners.
which he followed further To enroll you can send an
courses at the renowned e-mail to the director of the
academy of Düsseldorf and Ateliers ’89 Academia di
at Ateliers in Amsterdam. Bellas Artes Aruba at elvis@
She is frequently asked for ateliers89.com or just call at
residences, such as Harare 588-5776 / 565-4613.q