Nemo Jantzen

Works

Overview

A boundary-pushing artist and designer that explores the intersection of narrative tropes and contemporary imagery. With a career spanning the globe, his captivating and innovative works have earned him critical acclaim and a place in prestigious public and private collections worldwide.

Nemo Jantzen is a renowned graphic designer and fine artist who studied at the RTO Art Academy in Rotterdam. He traveled the world to develop his style and technique and worked as a graphic designer and billboard artist in Antwerp, Belgium. He settled in Spain and dedicated himself to making and selling fine art. Jantzen's works have been exhibited and sold in galleries around the world, and he has participated in various international art fairs.

Jantzen's early works featured pop-inspired imagery that created new contexts from photojournalism and advertising by placing highly detailed and enlarged objects out of their environment. Later, he explored cinematic stills and used digital photography as inspiration for his works. In his latest work, Jantzen goes beyond telling a one-image story and depicts a voyeuristic look into another reality. He carefully selects photographic images by color and theme and takes Neo-pointillism to the next level by exploring a collective unconscious. His resulting portraits reflect an idealized world filtered through the demands of the eye of the beholder. Jantzen currently operates from his studios in Barcelona and New York to stay innovative and fresh in the contemporary art world.

Biography

Nemo Jantzen, a renowned graphic designer and fine artist, creates works that explore new contexts in imagery and utilize digital photography as inspiration. His latest works take Neo-pointillism to the next level by exploring a collective unconscious, resulting in portraits that reflect an idealized world. With exhibitions in galleries worldwide and participation in international art fairs, Jantzen continues to innovate and create from his studios in Barcelona and New York.

Nemo Jantzen is a graphic designer and fine artist known for exploring the dialogue of narrative tropes in an image-soaked, contemporary environment. After studying art and design at the RTO Art Academy in Rotterdam, he traveled the world, further developing his technique and style as a fine artist, and worked several years as a graphic designer and billboard artist in Antwerp, Belgium. Later Nemo settled down in Spain where he dedicated his career to the making and selling of fine art. Jantzen has since exhibited to high acclaim and has sold his work in galleries throughout Europe and the United States. His work can be found in many renowned private and public collections around the world. In addition, Jantzen has been presented at numerous international art-fairs in London, Amsterdam, Singapore, New York, and Miami. Jantzen is currently operating from his studios in both Barcelona and New York in order to stay abreast of the changing contemporary art world and keep his work innovative and fresh.

His early works depict pop-inspired imagery creating new contexts from photojournalism and advertising by placing highly detailed and enlarged objects out of their environment. Successive shows moved on to explore cinematic stills as the source of a visually collective consciousness. The incorporation of the vocabulary of cinematography and the expediency of digital photography serves as inspiration for these works. In his latest body of work, Jantzen goes beyond telling a one-image story and depicting a voyeuristic look into another reality. By carefully selecting photographic images by color and theme, Nemo takes Neo-pointillism to the next level by exploring a collective unconscious. Hundreds of images depicting moments, personal experiences and cinematographic scenes are encapsulated in crystal spheres and come together to form large compositions. The resulting portraits reflect an idealized world filtered through the demands of the eye of the beholder.

Exhibitions