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The latest work of Kurt Nahar consist of a series of daring and provocative three dimensional art installations, mixed media paintings on hardboard and paper, and incorporated into all of these works of art, the artist also displays his poetic talent. His poems just like his visual art, are absolutely unique, daring and quite modern. No perfect and pretty poetic rhyme or reason, but strong, confrontational and sometimes even explicit expressiveness, meant to challenge the viewer and reader to deeper thought and discussion. Kurt Nahar always uses a combination of several techniques and materials, and currently gets most of his inspiration from Dadaism, a style dating from the First World War (this is also the reason why the word da da appears so often in his art). The Dada movement was originally born out of protest against modern worldly culture and out of disgust for and rebellion against the war and its bloody progress. The use of simple objects, collage techniques and the deliberate use of shocking and provoking methods in the art of Kurt Nahar, are all inspired by his affinity and admiration for Dadaism. Simple objects from daily life gain new purpose and meaning as art objects and bright hues of boldly applied acrylic paint in combination with graphic collage material, creates pieces of art with fascinating contrast effects. The artist uses his art to seek attention for a number of social and political circumstances in his home country and hopes to stimulate discussion on those subjects which people are hesitant to discuss. The work is undoubtedly unique, contemporary and purposely confrontational in order stimulate the consciousness of his public. For those who look beyond the provoking symbolism in his work, the artist’s preoccupation with subjects such as the precarious situation of legal and human rights, sexual promiscuity and moral decay, political and ethnic dissension as well as the thoughtless lust amongst the general public for all that the modern western world has to offer, soon becomes obvious.
Working experience:
1993 Drawing Project in Coronie (Suriname)
1994- 1997 Different Drawing Contests and Projects
1997- now Teacher at the Nola Hatterman Institute
Since 2007 Art Teacher for special needs children at the Matoekoe Foundation
2008 Artist in Residence at Duende – Art exchange project ArtRoPa, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2008 Artist in Residence at Vermont Studio Center, USA
2008-2009 Wakaman Art
2009 Research residency at the Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Exhibitions:
2012 Legally Issued, Galerie Nola Hatterman, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2012 Revealing our stored treasures, RAG in De Hal, Paramaribo
2011 Positions, Kurt Nahar & Remy Jungerman, De Hal, Suriname
2011 In de hoeken van de stilte, Galerie 23, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011 Misschien/Maybe, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium
2011 De Verleiding van Coronie, The Hague, the Netherlands
2010 Kunst is Kracht, Readytex Art Gallery in De Hal, Suriname
2010 Trienal Internacional del Caribe, Santo Domingo
2010 Paramaribo perspectives, TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010 Vredig, Vrij en Vriendelijk, Readytex Art Gallery in De Hal, Suriname
2010 17.912 dagen, geboeid door schoonheid, Brussels, Belgium.
2010 Afri Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2010 Lilly’s Galerie, The Hague, the Netherlands
2010 Sribi Switi, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, the Netherlands
2010 Paramaribo SPAN, DSB Bank, Suriname
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