Born in Koudekerk aan den Rijn (NL) in 1976, Marcel van den Berg earned his bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) in 2003. Besides being active as a visual artist and poet, Marcel runs a freelance copywriting business. Van den Berg currently lives and works in Rotterdam.
Introduction
'Art is not a copy of the real world. One of the damn things is enough. (*)
Van den Berg's work can be positioned in form and aim between poetry and visual art. Considering his practice as a way to obtain knowledge and activate his mind, he subscribes at the same time to a quote of the writer B.S. Johnson (1933-1973): 'A page is an area on which I may place any signs I consider to communicate most nearly what I have to convey.'
He believes that the traditional form of poetry is outdated and the structure of modern poetry has to be extended to reflect modern man's expanded perception of reality.
His work has been exhibited at e.g. 'Digidicht.nl', '20th Filmfest Dresden' (Dresden, Germany), 'UrbanFestival' (Zagreb, Croatia), 'Falkeandcharlotte' (Amsterdam, NL), 'Rael Artel Gallery' (Pärnu, Estonia), 'Expodium, Platform voor Jonge Kunst' (Utrecht, NL) and 'Academiegalerie' (Utrecht, NL).
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(*) N. Goodman, Languages of Art, Hackett Publishing Company; 2 edition (June 1976)