Curator's Note: Joep Steinmeijer was the first true International NadaDada artist and contributed to NadaDada from Amsterdam where he lived. John Molezzo, Dianna Sion and I were all in regular contact with him for years and he was a truly creative and excellent artist and working in digital still very early. Joep died a few years ago without bothering to tell us. We learned that his computer, which contained thousands of images, was not located. This exhibit is one of the only remaining sources of his work that I know of and the biography below was written by Joep for another virtual exhibit several years ago.

joep steinmeijer is a very old man

who lives in the innercity of amsterdam

the Netherlands

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he is a photographer since nineteensixtyeight

(=1968) and makes nowadays 20"x 30"

(or bigger) boxframed pictures

for his Gallery Rustenbourg

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he works still analog on Kodachrome slidefilm

with Olympus OM, scans the slides and uses photoshop to transform the pictures to his pictures. he hates zoomlenses and thinks

most '35mm' digital camera's and lenses are just gadgets yet

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he has shown his seasights for five consecutive years at the Dutch Island of Terschelling, has the last decade taken part in the bienale at Naarden-Vesting five times now. he exposed at the TwenteUniversity and at the 17th century VOC city of Middelburg

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these and more expo's have their own websites at steinmeijer.net

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his commercial portfolio can be seen at ArtOlive, a dutch website for professional artists

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since autumn 1997 he has specialized in

van de Velde (17th.century) style seascapes taken from the Dutch Island of Terschelling

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his birdpictures are a kind of side-catch, he made a few ´diptieks´ (two matching pictures) and this year three 3ft wide pictures of seagulls framed á la japanese with Kana karakters and an appropriate haiku

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in the last years - on special request -

he makes absurdistic collages for his

Reno, Nevada friend skjames

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all collages are photoshop made derivates from own slides, most of the nude ladys were found in old US magazines

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nudity is a common part of his absurdistic work an he is again and again shocked by the lack of knowledge of Art and the history of Art by some of the visitors ...

the kind of nudity he uses as props is considered as a normal part

of any art in Homers Greece and in Europe since the MiddelAges

so he wrote an article

to educate the dumb and prude

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the collages that will in time be shown on 'Joep's Dreams' Gallery are part made -on request- by a shipping company, part early experiments, part especially made for DaDaMotel 07, the Barrickexpo 08 (not published) and will be made for DaDa Insurgency 08

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despite his age he is madly in love with

mme. james and mme. Sion-Callender .

joep steinmeijer

pj@steinmeijer.net