{"id":1098,"date":"2018-02-01T12:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T11:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/?post_type=artist&p=1098"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:14:14","slug":"hein-dingemans","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.herenplaats.nl\/en\/artist\/hein-dingemans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hein Dingemans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hein Dingemans (1962)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hein is fascinated by tribal peoples from Nigeria, South Sudan, Tutsis from Rwanda, Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands and especially Aborigines, the original inhabitants of Australia. \u201cThe 9th Arunta Aboriginal, not only muscular, but also very, very strong\u201d, can be read under one of Hein’s drawings. And that’s what his native tribes look like: in impressive bodybuilding poses they proudly display their excessive muscle bundles over which the swollen veins run finger-thick. Their extremely large member proudly peaks at the peak of its potency. Sometimes a Yin Yang ball or die pops out. \u201cThis is to add a little humor to sex.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hein made his first bodybuilders when he was thirteen, inspired by hunks in comic strips such as Suske en Wiske, Asterix and Tarzan. When the school lessons were boring, he would draw so-called \u2018little one or two minute figures\u2019 of a couple of centimetres in his diary. In the course of weeks, months and years, they grew in size and detail: the wild frizzy hair became finer, the chest broader, the waist smaller and the muscles more substantial. In his homework about the European seas, Hein drew an Aboriginal figure skating; his right leg, high in the air, pointed to the Caspian Sea.
\nIn Hein\u2019s early work, the large phalluses are not so prominently in view. Initially they were hidden behind tough heavy metal guitars, which appear to be as much a symbol of male potency as the current \u2018ricos\u2019 (as Hein calls them) are. These have developed into an extreme size and reach well above navel height, because they have been \u2018inviagrated by an overdose of Viagra pills\u2019.<\/p>\n

Usually Hein provides his work with long titles in which the name and surname of the folk and tribe are mentioned. As a joke, now and then he gives the name of a band or a friend to the painting. Sometimes Hein also names his figures after himself. \u2018That is perhaps what I would like to look like, but then to a lesser degree.\u2019 Hein says he draws his potential alter egos as a form of sexual release. \u2018Because of a light form of handicap it’s difficult for me to get a girl: making contact’s a problem, a sort of shyness. I draw as an outlet for my sexual needs.\u2019<\/p>\n

A second way in which Hein releases tension is by means of the weather. A fanatic amateur meteorologist, he closely follows the weather reports on the radio and conducts his own forecasts on the balcony. He becomes very excited in storms and thundery shows. \u2018The whole lot fascinates me: the atmosphere, the beautiful skies, the bolts of lighting, the noise.\u2019 He makes recordings with a MD recorder, and listens to them on his walkman. \u2018I love thunder. The release of a thunderstorm makes me restful\u2019. In Hein’s recent work, weather plays an increasingly frequent role. Sometimes it is in the background in the form of a mass of clouds, sometimes as a central image such as in a painting about the eclipse and his etchings of tournedos.<\/p>\n

Recently, Hein has made many water colours of Polynesians. In a traditional manner he decorates these people with tattoos. In Hein’s work these islanders are covered with blue ink from top to toe. Various tattoos are also displayed on Hein’s body. Several years ago he had a large Montezuma-like image tattooed on his back and on the inside of his lower arm there is a Maori of his own design.<\/p>\n

In some water colours Hein writes his erotic fantasies in comic strip balloons. A Polynesian who is deeply in love thus thinks: \u2018You just wait, me you have soon in my arms and legs, me you pregnant make, me very much sperm for you have. You right size Margarita have for my enormous Rico. Me too very big large muscles and me incredibly strong and lean and quick and brave am.\u2019 To which, in turn, the beautiful blond thinks: \u2018Oh Jesus, that very heavily muscled well-endowed Samurai-like fully tattooed Melanesian native has been posing there a long time. Bundles of muscles are rippling and now he is masturbating. I think he is very handsome and impressive and I do believe he is head over heels in love with me!\u2019<\/p>\n

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

1998\u00a0 Solo exhibition in @Gallery Wares for Art, New York, USA<\/p>\n

1999 \u00a0“Les Indiens”, Mus\u00e9e d’Art Diff\u00e9renci\u00e9, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

2000 \u00a0Solo exhibition Gallery Project Abillity, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2000\u00a0 Museum Kyosei No Sato, Amagi-city, Japan<\/p>\n

2000 \u00a0MAD-Attack, Mus\u00e9e d’Art Diff\u00e9renci\u00e9, Li\u00e8ge, Belgium<\/p>\n

2002 \u00a0“Out of Senses”, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,\u00a0Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2002\u00a0 “Welcome de Stadshof”, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium<\/p>\n

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

2003\u00a0 Exhibition and symposium Gent, Belgium<\/p>\n

2004\u00a0 Art Institute, Chicago, USA<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Solo exhibition Gaia Museum, Randers, Denmark<\/p>\n

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

2005\u00a0 “De Vlaamse Reus”, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0 Pure Vision Arts, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2006 \u00a0“Beasts”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0 Jubilee exhibition 15 years Herenplaats, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007 \u00a0“The world of Herenplaats, Streetart meets Herenplaats”,\u00a0Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 Project Ability, Glasgow, Scotland<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “No Name”, Galerie Alte Turnhalle, Bad Durkheim, Germany<\/p>\n

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

2007\u00a0\u00a0“Heroes of Herenplaats”, Gallery Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2007\u00a0 “No Name”, Galerie Alte Turnhalle, Bad Durkheim, Germany<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0 “Bezet\u201d, project Budafabriek in Kortrijk, Belgium<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 GAIA museum, Randers, Denmark;\u00a0“Kiss and fly – The art of sex, love and eroticism”<\/p>\n

2009\u00a0 “Gek op tekenen”, (grazy at drawing), Gallery\u00a0Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

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

2009\u00a0 “I am I”, Outsider Art, Glazen Huis, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

2010\u00a0 “Outsider Art Fair”, New York, USA<\/p>\n

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

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

2012\u00a0 Art Brut Bi\u00ebnnale, Hengelo<\/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

2018 Outsider Art Fair, Paris<\/p>\n

2018 ‘Keiharde Kunst’ , Galerie Herenplaats, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2018 Art Brut Bi\u00ebnnale, Hengelo<\/p>\n

2018 “Oeil-art”, France<\/p>\n

2019 ‘Outsider Art Fair’, Paris<\/p>\n

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

Outsider Art Museum, Amsterdam<\/p>\n

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

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

2001\u00a0 Madness, Rotterdam<\/p>\n

2002\u00a0 “Folly Drawings”, history of the outsider art by Frits Gronert<\/p>\n

2006 \u00a0article in magazine Out of Art, May 2006<\/p>\n

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