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2014: Text by Nelly Rosa.
See also: ‘Nomad in No Man’s Land, a documentary on Felix de Rooy by Hester Jonkhout (2024).
The above text may be reproduced only with the mention of the source and author: Curaçao Art®️ , www.curacao-art.com. It is a constant oscillation between loving and dying at the same time.
His work often refers to Greek myths, the Madonna and child and other Roman Catholic subjects, and quotations from Leonardo.
I am torn between sexes, races, cultures and religions racing through my blood emerging like hot water in feverish dreams and visions.”
De Rooy’s earlier paintings, drawings and other two-dimensional works are influenced by artists like Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) and Jan Toorop (1858-1928), who were all re-discovered in the Swinging Sixties.
It is the struggle and lovemaking between the two gods Eros and Thanatos that creates visions resulting in images akin to surrealist and magical appearances. De Rooy calls his work Psychic Realism. Early in his career, he referred to Norman de Palm as his muse. In De Rooy’s case, an evaluation of his artistic achievements is not complete without taking his whole oeuvre into account including the films, theatre productions and curatorial projects.
He studied at the Vrije Akademie Psychopolis in The Hague and received his MA in filming and directing at the New York University in 1982.
From his multi-disciplinary background, he makes collages, assemblages and installations and so frequently giving statements on the inheritance of slavery with the aim to keep debating on this black page in the history of humanity and not conceal it.
Filmography
Desiree (1984)
Almacita, Soul of Desolato (1986)
Ava and Gabriel: A Love Story (1990)
Marival (1997)
Chess Game (2005)
Muhe Frida (2011)
The Renny Show (2015)
Rooy, Felix de
Besides being an artist, Felix de Rooy (1952) is a poet, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, director and curator.
In his monograph Ego Documenta (2012) Felix de Rooy describes his background poetically: “As an inheritor of colonial orgasm, as an unrecognized bastard erased from the European Testament, I escape from the prison of genetics and historical identity.”
He also writes: “In my blood flows together: Amazon Indians, African slaves, slave-owners, and abolitionists from Holland, Germany, France and Portugal.
Their most recent projects are a portrait on 10 Curaçao artists for the exhibition ‘Island Reflections. I read the bible and Xaviera Hollander, polish my Benetton consciousness and sip my Max Havelaar solidarity coffee from Delft Blue cups. He has won several film awards, including the Golden Calf in the Netherlands, the Paul Robeson Prize in Burkina Faso, and the Saul Yelin Prize in Havana, Cuba.
As he explains, “In my blood flows together: Amazon Indians, African slaves, slaveowners, and abolitionists from Holland, Germany, France, and Portugal.”
Refusing any categories of marginalisation de Rooy claims instead a radical artistic imagination as his birthright. He strives for spiritual enlightenment and an understanding of the world, and is thus engaged in a process of philosophical reflection and cultural research.
The image rights to the artworks remain the property of the artist.
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He is a visual artist, a theater and film director, curator and collector. Transculturalism and the ways different cultures see and represent each other, are his subjects. “As the hidden heir to the colonial orgasm, as the extramarital bastard exorcised from the European testament, I escape the prison of genetic and historical identity,” he declares.Latest
Felix De Rooy was born in 1952 in Curaçao, the Dutch Antilles and was raised in Curaçao, Suriname and Mexico.
The testament of my ego in the museum of my mind (2012), by Barbara Martijn and Felix de Rooy himself, is available at Amazon and Bol.com.