Entre - Act 2000

Location: N- Laag, floor 1 

Edith Imkamp van der Does de Willebois (1930), as is her full name, first studies at the National Academy in Amsterdam, but subsequently visits the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem for six months. There her teachers are Tajiri and founder Wessel Couzijn, among others. It is these six months in the Ateliers in particular that have shaped her mode of thinking and working.

Imkamp: "In fact I was utterly miserable at the National Academy. The approach there was very much like 'This is allowed, but that is absolutely forbidden'. The Ateliers were one great feast. With Tajiri I would go to a junkyard, get material out of wrecked cars and started constructing and electric welding straight away."
Couzijn made her aware of herself. Imkamp: "He said: 'Edith, what you are making now, anybody else can do. Where are you yourself?’ He went on and on and on and really kicked me into freedom.”

Imkamp employs a highly personal method. She pours out the hot wax plates into cold water, so that they coagulate at once. As a result her moulds get a rough and a smooth side, which she then polishes.

About her work she says: "Usually I just get started and I just see what comes out. I believe that my work is strongly based on nature: attraction and rejection, the opening and closing of flowers. It is quite organic. I am definitely not a constructivist or a mathematician. I do work in an abstract style, but elements from the insect world creep in nevertheless. A plastron on legs I find a great idea, with which I have been playing for many years. "

See also: Vubis