A few words about Bianca, the artist, the friend, the harbor where dreams begin.

Imagine a garden with delicate orchids. She stands amidst them, her hands poised in mid-air, so gracefully, eyelids downward, bare feet, poised in glittering garments, she
moves as the heart center of white petals, she moves but the stillness invades you and her down cast eyes tell you more of the secrets in a woman's heart than if she looked you in the face.
As a woman, it was when I first saw her dancing that I fell in love with her.

It seems a thousand years ago, it seems forever that we have known each other. Our daily lives mingled, but it was her art that so often fed my poetry, her battles to win mine. Like a butterfly she touches at every art form, creating it and from it, with a brush or hands molding plaster, with paint, charcoal, pencil, words, or silver threads….
And she finds you, spurs you on, gives you a single word from which a mountain of words can follow, and she listens to the silence between you, the magic moment when a new idea is born, the tragic mask lifted to appease the muse.

She is a pure artist at heart. Absorbing life experience, like the delicate brush dips into water to make the color flow, the title behind it is always "truth". And as truth involves pain and joy, success and failure, dreams and heart wrenching voids, she fills them, recreates them, performs them, takes us with her in the fascinating journey, a bottomless well of inspiration.
The door to her studio is wide open. She beckons for you to enter, to absorb, to find your own self in finding her.
She makes it happen…

Patrizia de Rachewiltz,
poet and translator 2005

introduction "Watertriptych, passionfruit cross an ocean"

poem "Down Absolute Azures" and object "Tropic tears"

colophon "Watertriptych"

cover "Watertriptych"

My name is Bianca Tangande, I have been working as a visual artist since 1979 in -'s-Hertogenbosch.

During the years I have acquired abundant experience as performer, designer, artist's initiator or instructor. Also through workshops of dance mask performance in groups of children, youths, grown-ups and elderly people.

This experience has taught me that a vast range of people is receptive and interested in different cultures.

Thanks to them my art work is exhibited or performed, wishing to establish a particular self while bringing it forth as a personal gift for a beloved one.
My art works consist in what I see as invulnerability and therefore typically my own,
ranging from:

· Drawings of faces in sketch form, where the moment of recognition creates the essential inner self of the person who meets me.
· Masks with external features of the person, the tangible frozen quality of the work process in relation to me.
· Watercolor landscapes, lyrical and abstract of my inner perceptions.
· Pictures of observations capturing a special light fall, color or form, an intimate moment of detail of my immediate surrounding.
· Hats, unique with sand portrait drawing.
· Paintings with own made pigment paint with a brush drawing

On commission I create many-sided and broad-oriented work: the work process by mutual agreement, sound and personal, the realization self-willed and stylish, from analogue to digital.

I am influenced in my work by my Indonesian/African descent, by the colors and forms of these cultures and lines as Matisse paints them.
My sources of inspiration are my daughters Lieve and Veerle, who continuously push me to a new life pattern, showing me the ever changing emotional sides of life.

Different forms are: drawings, pictures, watercolors, masks, paintings, hats and objects.

A quotation from my diary:
My studio is jammed with work, yet they want something else.
This something else is to set my own stamp on the final art work. I could interpret the assignment as a means of communication between the commissioner and me. Separate…
I am someone running to extremes or standing still.

Bianca Tangande, 2005

Workshop Dance Mask Creation

Are you interested in making contact within a group, with known or unknown participants, family, friends or colleagues to get to know them in a better way, then this group experience will be an inspiring way to get closer to each other.
After an introduction and showing examples about the origins of the mask, you start making your own dance mask of your face as a mould or of someone else sitting in front of you, with quieting Soendanese (West Java) music playing in the background.

Background information: As visual artist I have achieved a vast experience during the last 15 years at working as a team with children, young and older people. In the quiet and patient atmosphere, being together, laughing and in silence, getting into touch very closely, unveiling your face, come and participate to this workshop!
This workshop originated from my mother's dance, the dance of her memory, the Jaipongan, a social folk dance from the 50'ies.She taught me this dance with the selendang (an elongated wrap) which I then passed on to my children.
These dance masks of Indonesia inspired me to create a dance outgoing from the Jaipongan, in which the mask itself serves as an offering recipient. The making of the mask becomes a portrait of the moment, a tangible three dimensional picture.
Through this process the dance achieves its own character.

Bianca at her studio, picture made by daughter Veerle

Bianca at work, picture made by fotographer Henk van Esch 2004

1996 and 1995 exhibition performances

1994 with dancer Joyce Nakawombe from Uganda in Amazone, A'dam

2003 Anakku (my child) performance during workshops and performances day cold "Streetwise",
organization artist Annet van de Elzen

2006
Metaphorical
to cary over
the tradition.
photo: Lieve Dijsselbloem

2003
She gives

Jeroen Bosch Art Centre 2007 ' Breast dance performance'
foto: Hans Kieft
part club KOE org. Artots

Rivierenland Tiel, openings ceremonie t.b.v. Borstkanker expo 2008
foto: Fons Strijbosch