Tuur Marinus
wpZimmer resident in 2022
Tuur Marinus was born in Antwerp in 1981. He received a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Sint Lucas Antwerp before training as a dancer/choreographer at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels from 2004 to 2008.
Tuur worked as a dancer for a.o. Vincent Dunoyer, They Are Here and Fabian Barba. Together with the contemporary dance collective Busy Rocks he created a.o. “Dominos and Butterflies”). In his own name he made the performances “Still Animals” and now “TH LNG GDBY” among others.
In addition to his work in the performing arts, Tuur is working with his brother Flup on a trajectory in the visual arts.
projects
Belgisch Congo Belge
Belgisch Congo Belge In a series of miniature paintings Tuur and Flup Marinus copy their complete stamp album ‘Belgisch Congo Belge‘ in oil paint, page by page. The work consists of a highly esthetic range of images, an explosion of colours arranged in a play of recurrence and difference. The series bears witness to different histories and tales: colonialism and our relation towards it, the falling into disuse of postals and stamps, childhood memories, obsessive or escapist forms of philately and pictorial art…
The fascinating and impermeable esthetics of the work, fragile and almost monumental at once, can be read as a symbol of our difficulty to relate to the Belgian colonial history in a profound, non-superficial way.
The publication of the paintings in the Art Paper Collection has been presented during wpZimmer’s OpenHouse (January 2017).