Dadara ™

A new Reality is only a Dream away

Beginning of the nineties Dadara started designing flyers, live-paintings and record covers for the then upcoming international electronic house music scene. The public recognition gained through this underground exposure led his paintings to be noticed by the prestigious Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam, where till today he had ten solo-exhibitions, as well as exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Stuttgart, Miami and New York. In 1999 Dadara built his first big public sculpture: the 9 metres high Greyman Statue of No Liberty in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This marked the beginning of the production and design of more big public pieces, which over time became more interactive and performance orientated. In 2002 Dadara built a wooden threemaster - the Fools Ark - during the Over het IJ festival n Amsterdam, after which it was used as the main stage for Mysteryland, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to be burned at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. After its burn the Fools Ark rose like a Phoenix from its ashes to be burnt for good on the island of Terschelling, during the Oerol festival. Footage of the Fools Ark and next years Burning Greymen project was intertwined into an audio-visual journey through forgotten worlds to tell the tale behind the project, resulting in the part documentary/ part animated movie “Fall and Rise of the Fools Ark”, with music by Brittish band Lamb and Lamb’s Andy Barlow. In 2007 a big pink tank was built on a rooftop in the centre of Amsterdam, and later blown to pieces with explosives, as part of the Love, Peace and Terror project; an act of aesthetic visual terrorism. During his artist in residence period in Dallas, Texas (2008-2009), Dadara worked on Checkpoint Dreamyourtopia, a border control checkpoint to enter your own Dreams, which could be experienced in Nevada and Texas before crossing borders itself, after which it was resurrected at the Lowlands Festival and destroyed in Berlin in an old swimming pool, where the walls between dreams and reality were smashed with sledgehammers and chainsaws, exactly twenty years after the Berlin Wall came crumbling down.

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