Boonstra Rommert Untitled

Cones or chimneys from an old industrial world order fragment and topple against a misty background of crumpled paper. A flame gutters, and an eagle stretches its wings. Boonstra an exponent in the 1980s of staged photography which made use of painted models and back –projections, liked to imagine the last days of civilization abandoned and swept by storm and fire. Staging allowed him to call up memories of the Liost City of Atlantis and the Tower of Babel, producing pictures, which had a dramatic sense of catastrophe. Boonstra was one of a new wave of Rotterdam artist who established that city as the capital of Dutch photography as well as an Amusment Park of Culture. He participated in the vey important Fotografia Buffa exhibition of constricted photography in Groningen in 1986-an exhibition, which summed up the achievements of Dutch installation photography in the 1980s