David Lynch Exhibition - Someone is in My House - David Lynch Art, Photography, Film, Painting

An impression of the David Lynch retrospective ’Someone is in My House’ (30/10/2018 - 28/04/2019) at the Bonnefantenmuseum. Soundscape from the album The Air Is on Fire. The Bonnefanten presents the extensive retrospective ’Someone is in my House’ by the American artist David Lynch. Although David Lynch is undeniably a pivotal figure in the international film and TV world, his work as a visual artist is much less known. With more than 500 pieces, the Bonnefanten presents the first Dutch museum presentation of Lynch’s visual oeuvre and the most extensive retrospective exhibition ever. Contrary to the work of Lynch (1946, Missoula, Montana, USA), full of dark violence and sexuality, the artist and filmmaker’s childhood is happy and loving. Lynch grows up with parents who love traveling and leads a nomadic life at a young age, an idyllic and safe environment for him. Encouraged from an early age to develop creatively - coloring books were out of the question. Using one’s imagination was the credo - he eventually ended up at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia to study painting. Here Lynch develops his artistic vocabulary and themes that will be permanently present in his work. Lynch’s artistry runs like a thread through his life and films. He continued to draw and paint throughout his fifty-year career, even when his work as a film director meant little time to spend in the studio.“I miss painting when I’m not painting,“ says Lynch in the recent biography Room to Dream. — “I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds if you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force – a wild pain and decay – also accompanies everything.” - David Lynch #davidlynch #lynchian #twinpeaks