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Evert Panis
Biography
Evert Panis created this imaginative series after being given copies of maps and travel brochures. He drew inspiration from the repetition of windows in hotels and the grid-like lines in maps. His artwork transport the viewer into a place where lines become faces, bubbles, roads and organic creatures. Panis visits far away places in his imagination and express these places creatively as symbolic art. He finds liberation in art and communicates his ideas without any limitations.
Jescika Van Overveld, Evert Panis, and Sadya Keyrer live and create artwork at the Galerie Amsterdam, a center for outsider art in the Netherlands. Galerie Amsterdam is the home for people who have Down Syndrome. From painting and pottery, to theatre, Galerie Amsterdam carries a creative environment Their work recalls paintings by expressionist masters. Down Syndrome is a birth defect in which a baby is born with mental retardation. Some of them even experience heart problems and have trouble learning in school. The physical features include having a flatter face, upward slanting eyes, and a somewhat larger tounge. One in every 100 babies is born with Down Syndrome. Top art professors from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, and Amsterdamse Hogeschool Voor de Konsten (Academy of Fine Arts) guide these artists. The artworks produced by them show how indivduals with Down Syndrome have a rich and complex interior mental life.
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