DEGENERATE ZOO
The exhibition can be visited daily until September 6th.
About Jef Andrea's Degenerate Zoo
In the Degenerate Zoo, maligned animals are shown in a positive light. The Vandalistic Seagull, the exotic crayfish, louse, street rat and so on, all get their own box in which their positive qualities are highlighted. This through film, diorama, and a real aquarium. An informative sign next to each work of art provides the visitor with an explanation as to why these animals are of undeniable importance in our society.
About artist Jef Andrea
Jef studied at the Agriculture and Horticulture School and at the Graphic Lyceum. He often finds his inspiration in the animal kingdom and makes sculptures from old fur coats, garbage and polyurethane foam. These have been exhibited in the Arti, De Vlieg (Haarlem) and in the Pulchri in The Hague. He also exhibited recovered bicycle wrecks (Vietsen) which he gave names such as: Gazzalem, Batavis, Mountainbaars etc. Jef did an internship at the Eddie the Eagle museum where he developed as a stunt/theater performer, until now he performs under the name Stuntman Uncle Jefferson at festivals such as Lowlands, Mysteryland, Wasteland and Kamping Kitsch. At a completely different internship, namely Beast in Mechelen, he learned the tricks of the stop motion profession and made several stop motion animations himself. At the Pluk de Nacht film festival he created "the Seagull Rock", a mountain resurrected from garbage bags with stuffed seagulls, which was also the artist's lectern in which seagull quizzes and ornithological lectures were organized.
