George Heidweiller

In the exotic proliferation, which has given art of the late 20th and the early 21st
century such exhilarating impulses, George Heidweiller’s screen-prints, collages and
mixed media paintings form a virtually evident image of today’s world.
The ecology of a world citizen: Born in Beverwijk (1963), of Surinam parents, at the
gnarled edges of the ever burning and smoke spitting towers of the ‘Hoogovens’, a
solid art education (painting and graphic art) at the Royal Academy of The Hague,
followed by the wild years in the studio of rock and roll-junkie and painter Herman
Brood and after numerous faraway, adventurous and inspiring travels (India, Asia,
Mexico, United States), settles down in New Mexico, never stopping to take flight to
distant locations.
New Mexico, the far west, the land of prairies and asphalt, where the
Movie ‘Easy Rider’ was conceived and where the American Dream is everyday
reality. Texas and the Grand Canyon are dangerously close, the peace and quiet of
the Dutch polder land immeasurably far away. This is where the artist would like to
work for now. Especially the currently omnipresent signs of an American culture
touched by decline fold seamlessly into the memories of his travels and the visual
impressions he has received of the world so far.