Fashionable Text-ile by Mariska van den Heuvel (Warnsveld, Netherlands)

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Mariska van den Heuvel (Warnsveld, Netherlands)

March 10, 2015 - IUOMA friends who go back a few years probably know Mariska van den Heuvel is one of my fave conceptualists ever. I have written blog posts praising her endlessly but not recently because, alas, her presence in the network and at IUOMA is sporadic at best. The work she shares is relatively limited. She was very active for a time about four years ago, and some of you made her acquaintance then. Otherwise, she might surface briefly – say – once a year.

Thus I am thrilled beyond measure to have received this missive from her. In addition to sending fascinating and compelling art, Mariska van den Heuvel has been known to curate interesting calls and sponsor contests. This piece she sent, which I have seen elsewhere, might be part of a project with a larger scope and purpose. I have not put it all together yet, but will participate in some form if possible.

I believe Mariska van den Heuvel is a highly original conceptual artist whose style is immediately engaging and recognizable. I prefer to call her a conceptualist because her work frequently involves the textual realm and is often language-centered. (To be accurate, she is more a practitioner of “concept art” than conceptual art, the former being, to me, a more authentic practice which gave birth to the latter.) The work displayed in this blog, for instance, upon scrutiny, reveals text and fairly extreme erasure (or more precisely crossing out):

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Mariska van den Heuvel favors this extreme erasure, and I believe it ultimately involves a statement about language and silence. She had a notable exchange with Richard Canard (Illinois, USA) that involved extensive erasure. Mariska's (in)famous erasure exchange with Richard Canard:

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/reaction-to-mr-r-canard?xg_sour...

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In terms of the exotic literary forms that thrive in the Eternal Network, Mariska van den Heuvel has produced notable vispo, asemics and haptics. As the work above indicates, they have their own style apart from the copycat river of material that can be witnessed daily on collective blogs and Facebook. I am not criticizing the current global outpouring of, especially, vispo and asemics; I am a participant, after all. But I am praising Mariska van den Heuvel who is every bit as intellectual and talented as the vispo heavy hitters of our time, yet she manages to stand apart and create work that is totally and completely her own.

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Here is a link to learn more about Mariska van den Heuvel and her art:

http://kunstenrituelen.webklik.nl/page/homepage

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I am always thrilled to see and receive new work by Mariska van den Heuvel. Many thanks!

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Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 11, 2015 at 9:00pm

Rebecca, when I first joined the IUOMA in 2010, she was pretty much a regular, as I recall, as was Stephanie Blake along with others. Of course, you have been here long enough to know the regulars change slowly, gradually but constantly for all different kinds of reasons. I do hope you make contact with Mariska. I think she likes m-a but once posted a message to friends about work taking up a lot of time, etc. (Sometimes she even posts a comment. We should be so lucky!)

Oh yeah, she did participate in at least one of Cheryl Penn's book projects, I think.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/MariskavanderHorst

Comment by Rebecca Guyver on March 11, 2015 at 8:32pm

I don't know her work!  How did I miss it?  I LOVE IT! I am going to write to her and beg.

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