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Alex Vermeulen (born December 9, 1954), also recognised as SOH Alex Vermeulen, is a Dutch artist known for his multimedia projects, films and film books. ==Biography== Alex Vermeulen is an award winning contemporary Dutch multi-media artist who has worked under his own name as well as SOH-States of Humanity and Syndicaat Alex Vermeulen. His work includes film-books, films, performances, sculpture and installations. A long time resident of Amsterdam, in the last years Vermeulen has divided his time between the island of Bali and Brooklyn, New York. In May 2016 Alex Vermeulen will open a multimedia studio in Greenpoint, New York which will function as a workstation / experimental laboratory. The studio will facilitate a complete audio and video editing set up. The space will also be used to present new projects and readings. Born in the southern city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, on December 9, 1954, Vermeulen is largely an autodidact, although he did study psychology, philosophy, architecture and design at the Design Academy Eindhoven before launching off on his own career in his mid-twenties. His primary early influences were film makers such as the Nouvelle Vague director Claude Chabrol and he got inspired by the obsure movie “"J'irai comme un cheval fou" (1973) by Fernando Arrabal and the absurdist movie ''Themroc'' (1973) by Claude Faraldo. Vermeulen’s fascination with films would inspire him to put a new spin on an old form – film books. Usually produced to document an existing film, Vermeulen’s versions documented imaginary films in such a way that readers often assumed they were. His visual scripts thus played with the space between reality and imagination a theme seen throughout his work. This film book projects consisting a publication containing the film story with film-stills; on these stills Vermeulen's sculptures function as props. Vermeulen would first achieve recognition in 1984, when the curators of the Van Abbemuseum,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Abbemuseum: Home )〕 South Netherlands' most prestigious modern and contemporary art museum began a long period of collaboration with the artist that would last for more than a decade. This would lead to exhibitions and purchases for their prestigious permanent collection.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Abbemuseum: collectie )〕 In 1993 Vermeulen moved to Amsterdam and founded in 1995 “SOH-States of Humanity” and the Syndicaat foundation.〔http://www.syndicaat.org〕 A year later he presented his final film-book, as part of a large installation, Fuga Futuri,〔http://www.syndicaat.org/fuga/index.htm〕 at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum (1996). The chief character introduced in this show for the first time, was the stylized humanoid "Eggy", named after his egg-like shape. In the following fifteen years sculptures of various forms of the enigmatic Eggy would appear in a number of projects mounted in public places around the world including New York (1996) where Vermeulen asked those who passed to select their favorite Eggy and relate it to their personal life. These interviews were edited into a 50- minute documentary film, States of Humanity. In the following years SOH and Syndicaat Alex Vermeulen produced more than 29 multi-media events 〔http://www.syndicaat.org/soh/index.html〕 including SOH3, ''the Mental Urban Labyrinth'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Van Abbemuseum: tentoonstelling )〕 with curator Jan Debbaut, at the Van Abbemuseum and SOH1, ''the Architectural Film'' at MuHKA, the Museum for Contemporary art in Antwerp, Belgium, both in 1999. In the same year he edited the artist edition trailer of ''American Psycho'' presented at the premiere in New York. With these two exhibition the book States of Humanity (1999) was released. The States of Humanity book is to be a travel guide for a present-day metropolis: a manual full of cross references, coincidences, allusions, stories, pictures, associations. The structure of the publication should give 'the visitor' a feeling that the different components refer to the planological structure of an imaginary world - a conglomerate of alleyways, streets, boulevards and squares, each with its own character and social traffic. Vermeulen has invited the following writers to act as 'architects' for the planology of the book: filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan, the philosophers Arthur Danto and Richard Shusterman, composer David Shea, architect Greg Lynn, the writing team Martin and Annette Meyers, director of interdisciplinary dance theater Ron Bunzl and the author Robert Greene. Beginning in 2000 Vermeulen directed a series of films including. For the Nederlandse Programma Stichting he directed the short dance movie ''One Ride Pony'' (2000).〔http://vimeo.com/36803465〕 for the European Union sponsored Democracy Conference SOH13 ''the Power of Collective Intelligence and Awareness'' (2004).〔http://vimeo.com/36482202〕 For the Holland Festival, Amsterdam (NL) he directed cinematographic opera: SOH10 ''the Opera'' (2003-2008) 〔http://vimeo.com/102846896〕 trailer 〔http://vimeo.com/99965412〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holland Festival )〕 in collaboration with composer David Shea 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Shea Discography at Discogs )〕 In 2006 Alex Vermeulen mounted a large installation with 88 enormous black polyester eggs topped with solar panels floating in a pond at Eindhoven's University of Technology (NL). Dubbed "SOH19 States of Nature," the project combines physics, art, technology, spirituality, solar cult and sustainable energy. Created in association with the Natuurkunst Foundation and some Applied Physics university students, the aim of this self-sustained installation is to lift a levitating Buddha sculpture using the sun's energy! 〔http://www.thevoltreport.com/tag/soh19-states-of-nature-alex-vermeulen/〕 Part of the project was the release of the international catalogue : SOH19 ''States of Nature; Sun enlightenment'' Which tells the story of the evolution of the project and its participants, focussing on topics like physics and art, technology and spirituality, solar cult and sustainable energy, biological processes and social interaction. Essays from (a.o.) Marcel Möring (‘the Great Longing’), Vincent Icke (astrophysicist), Robert Greene (‘The 48 Laws of Power’), IJsbrand van Veelen (VPRO), Koert van Mensvoort (TU/e) en Jan van Adrichem (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam). Alex Vermeulen & Frans Snik (ed.), SOH19 States of Nature; Sun enlightenment, Pijama Publishers, 144 p., release September 12, 2006 In 2012 Vermeulen decided to stop producing ''Eggy'' sculptures. All ''Eggies'' so far did not have any arms. However the last ''Eggy'' has arms; which could either express a "Hurray" or form together with the legs a X shape, a symbol that could be seen as a reference to the unknown. At the same time Vermeulen closed his studio in Amsterdam. In 2014 he set up new studios in both Bali and New York. After traveling frequently to Bali, Indonesia since 2013, Vermeulen began working on a new interactive cinematographic iBook, ''The Epic''. Directed and produced by Vermeulen, ''The Epic'' is a multifaceted collaborative project loosely based on the Ramayana Epic written by Valmiki and the Tragedy Othello by William Shakespeare. and takes place in a sprawling Asian metropolis named Raksasa Kota (City of the Future) in the year 2088. The stars of the production are a group of young Balinese dancers between the ages of six and ten. Rien Bekkers 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Home | rienbekkers.nl )〕 designed the sumptuous costumes. The large interactive installation will consist of a series of monumental photos, a suggested feature written and directed by Vermeulen shot in collaboration, among others, with photographer Doddy Obenk. The original film score, an interactive iBook, will be presented in Museum Puri Lukisan, Ubud in Bali in August 2016 and onwards in Europe, China and the United States. As part of the production, Dutch filmmaker Peter Mariouw Smit, has been shooting a documentary, The Epic: Behind the Scenes.〔http://vimeo.com/101985263〕 The Film will be released August 2016 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Vermeulen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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