{"id":1097,"date":"2018-02-01T12:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&p=1097"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:00:51","slug":"laan-irodjojo","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/laan-irodjojo\/","title":{"rendered":"Laan Irodjojo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laan Irodjojo (1969)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Smiling friendly he is showing me his latest paintings, displaying the tallest building of Rotterdam, the Montevideo. Because of the size of this building he needed two pieces of canvas to picture this colossus. They have to lie on the floor next to each other in order to see it in full. He keeps an eye on me when I\u2019m doing this and is repeating what I said: \u201cnice huh\u201d\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laan was born in Paramaribo. When his family moved to the Netherlands in 1979, they discovered the drawing talent on a school trip to the port of Rotterdam. In 1995 he got a place at Studio Herenplaats and was given the opportunity to experiment with different materials and techniques. Irodjojo has the Savant syndrome. People with this syndrome have special talents which can grow strongly, often there is the combination with autism. We are acquainted with infant prodigy in the fields of mathematics and music from stories and movies. Laan has a photographic memory and a remarkable strong sense of perception combined with a drawing talent. His favourite subjects are buildings, ships, airplanes, trains and bridges. Laan draws them quick and accurate, without a ruler and with a natural feeling for proportion and perspective. He starts by drawing everything with a pencil in his little sketchbook. Than he works out all his subjects on a large scale canvas or paper with acrylic paint. He paints in cool blues and greys, most of the time layer on layer, minimally correcting the colors. As the final touch he edges the colours with a black line.<\/p>\n

Flipping through his sketchbook I am astonished at his sense of proportion, not one single line has been corrected, he doesn\u2019t use an eraser. The perspective doesn\u2019t fit in always right and sometimes it looks like an isometric perspective drawing. With some buildings the lines of a rooftop do not run parallel with the windows, but all the details are correct, even the small airco on a skyscraper are not missed.<\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998\u00a0 “Aubes’98”, Gallery des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux,\u00a0France<\/p>\n

1999 \u00a0Universal Printshow’99, Project Ability, Glasgow,\u00a0Scotland<\/p>\n

1999\u00a0 Out of the blue, Gallery de Slijperij, Geel,\u00a0Belgium<\/p>\n

1998\u00a0 The Museum of New Art, P\u00e4rnu, Estonia<\/p>\n

1998\u00a0 “Boats”, Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

2001\u00a0 Universal Printshow, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2002\u00a0 “Die Welt: Innen Nach Aussen”, Hamburg,\u00a0Germany<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art Fair”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 The Universal Print Show, Project Ability, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 Solo exhibition Kerrigan Campbell\u00a0Art & Projects, Soho,\u00a0New York, USA<\/p>\n

2003\u00a0 “Who am I”, Venice, Italy<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 The return of The Universal Print Show, Project Ability,\u00a0Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 The Great Hall gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Hollandia Gallery, Vlaardingen<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 “Group Du Jour” Van der Plas Gallery, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 Jubilee exhibition “15 years Herenplaats”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “Art throughout the Innerworld”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 Exhibition in Finland<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 Skyscraperweekend, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “INTUIT Show”, Chicago, USA<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “Buildings”, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “Transport”, Artwork Spangen, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Outsider Art Fair”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Stendhal Syndroom, art that makes\u00a0you grazy”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0Exhibition in Niki Kurabu, Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Espacio Liquido”, Jovellanos en El Helvedero,\u00a0Gijon, Spain<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Outsider Art Fair”, New York, USA.<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0Transport “on wheels and stuff”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 Exhibition\u00a0Galerie Kempro\u00a0“Modellen”,\u00a0Sterksel<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Outsider Art”, Gallery De Compagnie,\u00a0Dordrecht<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Going Dutch”,\u00a0Van der Plas Gallery,\u00a0New York, USA<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0Rackstadtmusee, Arvika in Sweden, Outsider Art Biennale,\u00a0“Art surrounded by\u00a0legends and wilderness”<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0Project Ability, “Myscape”, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0“Nighthawks”\u00a0,\u00a0\u00a0Vzw.Wit.h, Kortrijk, Belgium<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art der Niederlande”,\u00a0Kunsthaus Kannen, M\u00fcnster, Germany<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0Villa Zebra, Theme: architecture, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0“Outsider Art Salon”,\u00a0Galler7y Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 Exhibition Zorgcentrum Crimpenersteyn, Krimpen a\/d IJssel<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0Outsider Art, Wijk bij Duurstede<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0“Museum of Everything 4”, Londen, U.K.<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 WTC Schiphol, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0Outsider Art Exhibition, Wijk bij Duurstede<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0Who Am I # 5, graphic exhibition, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0 Exhibition Esmare Kunstkabinet, Capelle a\/d IJssel<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0Art Brut Bi\u00ebnnale, Hengelo<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0 “Who am I”, Galerie du haut Pav\u00e9, Parijs, France<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 “Borelo-Lifemap”, Artium, Fuhuoka, Japan<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 GROOS, Schieblock, Schiekade, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 La Brut, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2013\u00a0 Aafje Zorghotel, Sint Fransiscus Gasthuis, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2018 “Zomergasten”, Dr. Guislain Museum, Gent (Belgium)<\/p>\n

2019 “City Scapes”, Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

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Collections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max E. Ammann Collection, Switzerland<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Catalogues<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998 \u00a0“Aubes’98”. Galerie des Beaux Arts,\u00a0Bordeaux, France<\/p>\n

2000 \u00a0“Boats”, Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n

2000 \u00a0“Transport” Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Stendhal syndroom, art that makes\u00a0you grazy”,\u00a0history 15 years Herenplaats<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 “Museum of Everything 4”, Londen, U.K.<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0 Who Am I # 5, graphic exhibition, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Orders<\/strong><\/p>\n

2000\u00a0 2 orders from the Physician Training Centre,\u00a0Capelle a IJssel<\/p>\n

2002 \u00a0Order from a law centre, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Blow up of the painting “Schielandtoren”\u00a0at the front of an officebuilding, Rotterdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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