{"id":1950,"date":"2019-06-24T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/start.local\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T14:26:07","slug":"the-artistic-path-of-rafael-von-streepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/st-artamsterdam.com\/the-artistic-path-of-rafael-von-streepen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artistic Path of Rafael Von Streepen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This article was originally published on Hue & Eye<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About Rafael Van Streepen<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Dutch-born, Canadian raised Rafael Van Streepen (b. 1991), is a young painter currently based in Amsterdam. We met him during the opening launch of the cultural collaboration between St-Art Amsterdam and the Wheelhouse on June 14th, 2019 @wheelhose Amsterdam<\/strong>, as he is one of the artists part of the long-run exhibition inside the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we sat down ready to begin a conversation about his practice, Rafael chose to initially talk about what art has always been for him. Coming from an academic background in Economics, Rafael soon felt the urge of exploring his approach to life through his own actions, finding in the artistic one an essential technique. At the age of 21, he opened a gallery space in Amsterdam, where artists could be supported in their journey. In those years he was himself helped to produce more artwork by his good friend Noah Lamp, an artist with a deepened academic art education which stimulated Rafael to explore his own artistic workflow. This was a turning point in Rafael\u2019s life. As he had to interrupt the gallery in Amsterdam, he went back to New York to his mother where he continued following his artistic research.<\/p>\n\n\n