ABOUT

André Thijssen's Fringe Phenomena 1 & 2 are called Peripheral Visions & Parallel words. It is evident from André Thijssen’s work that he takes pictures anytime and anywhere. And yet, despite his incredibly prolific output, all of his photographs have something in common. Remarkably often this concerns situations where Thijssen almost literally looked beyond the obvious subject. He sees beauty in things that most photographers are absolutely not interested in. Images that normally speaking are left behind.

Thijssen is a photographer who concentrates on the periphery of the frame. A puddle of water on a street, a cut-out in a curtain to provide the plant on the window-sill with light, a toppled-over table of cabbage and two fallen bicycles that have become entangled; none of them particularly interesting subjects at first sight. Except to André Thijssen.

The photographs by André Thijssen provide access to parallel worlds, of which we are occassionally also aware. However, we prefere to ignore these “chance events”, these unfathomable moments in time. Apparently it’s too threatening to wonder whether an unknown doppelgänger leads a life opposite to our own with choices that we never ever made and hence are not even aware that wrong choices exist. The artist does not provide any answers for these philosophical reflections. His images leave words in second place. André Thijssen records what he finds in the parallel worlds -or in one of the many. And he shows them, so that “it” won’t be left unnoticed.

It is evident from André Thijssen’s work that he takes pictures anytime and anywhere. And yet, despite his incredibly prolific output, all of his photographs have something in common.

Remarkably often this concerns situations where Thijssen almost literally looked beyond the obvious subject. He sees beauty in things that most photographers are absolutely not interested in. Images that normally speaking are left behind.

Thijssen is a photographer who concentrates on the periphery of the frame.