Jan Rosius
About the artist
As a teenager Jan Rosius was submerged in the lawless skateboard culture of the mid nineties. An open playing field, hidden away from the main stream and pop culture, in which raw imagery and visual anti establishment propaganda took centre stage. Fascinated by this mixture of pure passion, excitement, danger and a total DYI mind state expressed on the streets as a real life canvas, Jan Rosius absorbed every aspect of it and started his own excursions expressing himself as an artist. All of this without any arts education, but with a whole culture of self made artists influencing and educating him along the way. Over the years he explored every aspect of this street culture and arts scene as a skateboarder, graffiti writer, MC, b-boy, fashion designer, organizer, DJ, beat producer and a street art artist, creating something from nothing against all conventional rules and guidelines. In such a way that he definitely turned a few heads and made some noise in the underground. After a life changing and mind altering burn out experience in 2017 he decides to leave his day job and focus a 110% on his artistic endeavors. While collaborating closely with professionally schooled artists, as well in proximity as in actual projects, he starts crossing over to new techniques and a body of work which is slowly shaking off the confinements of traditional graffiti and street art. His recent works are based on the repetition of intriguing symbols, patterns and subliminal messages referring to the world of dreams and imagination. The expressions of an undying urge to wake people up from their daily slumber, unexpectedly, still both in the streets and in gallery settings, to make them wonder about the writings on the wall and the hidden worlds that lay behind them.