Gallery
Funky Suit / White Suit
(2024)“When places become so colourful, so popular, so full of people and so visually and literally loud, I sometimes prefer to go back to a blank canvas and start over again.”
FUTURE FOREST BHAVISHY
(2023)14-8-2023 planting BHAVISHY forest in Hindi writing, meaning FUTURE, Bikaner, Dungar Collega, Rajasthan, India. 15 indigenous tree species, 215 trees planted with a 100 students. 100 meters wide, 50 meters high. Thanks to Dungar Collega, Familial Forestry, everyone that helpt with the preparations and planting, my VoorDeKunst Sponsors, friends, Family and all others. If you wanna know the exact location: type in the search bar of Google maps: Bhavishy future forest.
UNITED COLORS
(2023)Art Installation “UNITED COLORS OF TIMOR-LESTE| Prototype 001”. In this installation, the women of Timor-Leste, who weave Tais (traditional woven fabrics of Timor-Leste) are represented with their handwoven Tais. These Tais are often used by politicians in a suit, at official meetings, but not necessary as a showcase of unity. In a country dominated by male politicians, perhaps more than 90% are men in leadership positions, where the rights of women, girls and children are still not guaranteed.
Normal Life Patterns
(2022 - 2023)Patterns of a "normal" life are a collection of white reliefs (seed bank) in the carton Pierre technique (paper, plaster and wood glue and in this mix I added tree and flower seeds) in where I print the items that are and/or life around me, which I use in patterns or are patterns by themselves. Often the reliefs are made in a serie of 3, where in I see a connection and/or relation. In an apocalyptic event, where everything is destroyed, trees and flowers will grow out of these reliefs!
FUTURE FOREST APAGA
(2022)International Art residence organized by EU4Culture further implemented by: Regional Development and Research Centre / Sevan Community Municipality / ''Sevan Youth Club‘’ and New Art Stage (NAS). Working on the start of my Future Forest Projects World Wide, planted the APAGA forest in Sevan and Performed a Performance in the old Soviet Park Sevan , working together with the other artists and Youth of Sevan.
ANTHROPOCENE OFFENDER VICTIM
(2020)This is a coffin, made for Camilio’s size, with a high-pressure compartment inside so he may take his lifetime Co2 exhaust / footprint with him, into his grave. A high-pressure valve and hose are connected to the coffin and to a high pressure cylinder, so the CO2 from the cylinders – gotten from a filter catch system, which catches Co2 out of our air –, may be injected into the coffin.
COVID-19 Quarantine Social Isolation Hibernation Box
(2020)The key of Hibernation Box is about the exploration of the desire to be able to shut oneself off for a while, like the pause button on your remote control. When COVID-19 hit the world, and lockdowns and mandatory quarantine became a reality. People responded to this differently and have gone/are going through this with different experiences and emotions. Hibernation Box gives to possibility to put yourself on pause for a certain period of time.
A Dying Tree
(2020)This is a hospital bed in which Camilio laid a tree trunk of 180cm long, which is roughly his high. The tree is connected to a heart monitor, water / oxygen and a drip. In this work we see a dead trunk in a bed, to focus on what we normally not see – the tree trunk represents deforestation, and the damages being inflicted to the environment as a whole (and the global warming it is inflicting), but also the artist and his fears.
Food to Forms
(2020)All over the world mathematical lessons are given and almost everybody will get lessons about the surface / perimeter of a triangle, square and circle. Personally Camilio would like to add here the story of Paul Cezanne, one of the front runners of cubism. Cezanne saw the world around him build up out of sphere’s, cubes, cones, cylinders, etc. so he could paint like he did. Camilio would like to combine these two facts and bring culture back on to these forms.
WHITE ELEMENT(S) 12
(2019)Studio 225 residency, Chilenje Market, Lusaka, Zambia 44 market items boxed white, reconfigured in White Element 12 phase 1 (inside) and phase 2 (outside). Dressed in white (being his alter ego) makes Camilio part of the installation. Outcome and results from 2 weeks Visual Art Residency Studio 225, Chilenje Market, Lusaka, Zambia (Guidance and organisator: David Daut Makala). Flight from Malawi to Zambia and Materials are CO2 compensated (treesforall.nl).
Shit Paintings
(2018 - 2021)Putting my "Shit" on social media and on canvas.
My Text Based Art
(2020)Texts in monochrome material paintings, which are not paintings, because no paint is used but real materials.
Golden Khasu
(2019)'The Golden Khasu' in its "natural" habitat. In-scripted in the handle: For the love of maize, for the hope on survival, for the dream of the next generation.
White Element SKETCHES
(2003 - 2021)White Element Sketches. The added white elements in the sketch should be executed in plaster of Paris (on the real trees), but looks like 3D cutting in paper (or erasing space).
3rd Hand Clothes For(m) Me
(2019 - 2022)3rd hands clothes for(m) me. In Pink, Grey, Black, Brown and white. Dressed in white (being his alter ego) makes Camilio a true part of the art work / performance. Second hands clothes from DAPP (Development Aid from People to People), Lilongwe Malawi. Well ment second hand clothing shipped to Africa, destroying local textile industries
Just 8 Panels
(2019)Just 8 panels with some wrong labeling.
FORM to TIME
(2019)FORM to TIME / TIME to FORM M'MBUYO / TSOPANO / TSOGOLO PAST / PRESENT / FUTURE CASSAVA / MAIZE / REFINED SUGAR SQUARE / CIRCLE / TRIANGEL If you always do what you did, you will always get what you got. Green season (rain season) in Malawi is lean season, crops are growing, the food stocks (Maize) from last year finished or almost finished. This is circular / a circular rhetoric.
TSOGOLO / FUTURE 02
(2018)TSOGOLO (Future) was happening at Tumaini festival 2018, Saturday the 3rd of November, where there where 700+ tree seedlings shared, for free. One fully grown tree can safe 0,5 ton of Co2 and 10 airco-units (when fully grown, so care for it in dry season).
Ghost Trees
(2018)Art installation specially made for Tumaini Festival 2018. 8 white bundels of white painted tree branches where standing as a memorial for the fallen trees by deforestation world wide, Malawi and Dzaleka. It is also a minimalistic site specific art installation. The branches will be donated to the people of Dzaleka.
Forms to Nature
(2018 - 2019)4 basic white 3D forms placed in Nature, to show where these basic forms are coming from are where nature is build out from.
Chief Chair
(2018 - 2019)The Chief-chair is for the Chief in the villages in Malawi and Zambia, amongst other African countries. They differ per village to village. Here you see 3 chief chairs of a different level. They raise 2 questions: Who do you allow to have a sit in your seat? But also: why are you going to sit in the seat which is clearly not meant for you?
FUTURE
(2017)TSOGOLO (FUTURE) (23-7-2017) Site specific installation (river side of Kumbali grounds Lilongwe). 13 white painted Bamboo sticks / rope / 13 stumps of illegally cut down trees (in situ) / 50kg flour bags (made of woven plastic strips (bags where cut in half along seems) as flags / TSOGOLO text in spray-paint and charcoal with wood glue.
"TREE HUGGER"
(2017)"TREE HUGGER" (20-6-2017) My body, a tree and several coloured (almost exclusively food) powders: Unsustainable charcoal, ground coffee, chocolate milk powder, Trekker mixture (coffee and chicory), groundnut powder, millet flour, strawberry milk powder, strawberry custard powder, maize flour, coffee creamer, white bread flour and cassava flour. Dressed in white (being his alter ego) makes Camilio a true part of the art work / performance and subject next to the tree.
WHITE ELEMENT 11
(2017)White element 11 (19-26/ 3-2017) Subtitle: Several ways to deal with a "readymade". Forrest reserve Lusaka, Zambia Mixed media: Performance, wood pile (dimensions: 486cm L x 258cm W x 104cm H), maize and cassava flour. Dressed in white (being his alter ego) makes Camilio a true part of the art work / performance.
BROTHERS' PLAY. Zanzibar
(2017 - 2019)“BROTHERS' PLAY” (20-12-2016) is a visual art performance done by two performers from two completely different continents meeting each other in visual art and beyond. The performance is mainly about humanity and its continuously inability to go beyond looking towards each other in a “black and white mind set”.
Sweep clean your "own" beach first. Lake Malawi
(2016)Sweep clean your "own" beach first (18-10-2016). Lake Malawi. Raking a large rectangular (30 meter x 20 meter) to a human sized circle (diameter of 1 meter) and removing all that doesn’t belong. Spending 2 hours and 7 minutes on cleaning the beach in front of the rented holiday house.
SIDE BY SIDE
(2016)SIDE BY SIDE (23-5-2016). Concept of Performance “SIDE BY SIDE” arose during the preparation of the solo exhibition by Lawrence Chikwa in May 2016 in Lusaka, Zambia (Modzi Arts). More specifically, the performance has been inspired on Chikwa’s painting “The newly graduates”, which addresses the colonial past of Zambia.
White Element 10 / Leipzig, Germany
(2008)White Elements Leipzig-Bunker Element. My Memorial for Leipzig. Germany.
WHITE ELEMENT 8 / 9
(2008)White elements / Trees & White elements. Weimar Buchenwald Concentration Camp / My Memorial for Weimar Buchenwald. Germany.
White Element 7. Perugia, Italy.
(2007)White elements / Trees & White Elements.
'Pillars in the mud'. Rotterdam
(2007)In 2007 I was asked to participate in 'Pillars in the mud 2'. (An art project by Hugo Lammerink) transform 1 of the 12 pillars in the art space 'locus010' Rotterdam, together with 11 other artist. I chose a pillar which as an remarkable communication with an outside church tower and I started to "talk" back in dimensions and forms.
White Element for De Aanschouw. Rotterdam.
(2006)In 2006 I was asked to make an art work for the "smallest Gallery" in Witte the Wit street Rotterdam. Because I like to be "creative outside the box" I removed the front and back side of the "gallery" and created a white element for this wonderful gallery and art project and created an inside and outside experiment (see the pictures).
ToBeMe Performance
(2004)An incomplete / complete / incomplete installation. Most of the time the box (with my sizes, 177 cm x 49 cm x 29 cm) is empty. Only somebody (or me), completely white, inside the box, can complete this work, for a moment.
Rotterdam Element 4 / 5
(2004)White elements for Rotterdam
Berlin Tree 01 Performance. Germany.
(2003)Performance Berlin Tree 01 Berlin Tree 01 is a result of conceptualizing how humans "like" to capture nature.
Berlin Elements. Germany.
(2003 - 2019)White elements for Berlin. Tree 1, 2 and 3.
Colaboration Montauk II. Rotterdam.
(2004)Works of art which come out of collaborating with other people.
3D / Trees / White Elements
(2003 - 2019)In ‘All White Elements’ I show all the works of art I consider to fall under this heading. Meaning 3D installation art works in which as base I use the white colour of fabrics, chemicals, food, etc. in order to create, or call it 3d erasing or cutting, works in space where white has a powerful meaning.