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PINK de Thierry | |
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 PINK working on Portrait of Ernst Gombrich – Où est l'Original, d'après MB -, 2011 | |
| Born | Helena Scheerder 17 December 1943 Haarlem, Netherlands |
| Died | 25 February 2023 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Education | Autodidact |
| Known for | Visual arts |
| Notable work | At Home, Et in Arcadia Ego Sum, Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia, Letters from Arcadia, Blanchir l'Histoire |
| Movement | Performance and conceptual art |
PINK de Thierry (born Helena Scheerder, Haarlem, December 17, 1943 - Amsterdam, February 25, 2023) was a Dutch visual artist known for her meta-performance art projects,[1] which included 100 days of living in a painting (At Home, 1984), 30 days of traveling in the US as a performance-art project in 1988, daily entering Arcadia for 60 days in Germany with Et in Arcadia Ego Sum in 1990–91 and leading the Royal Netherlands Army in constructing Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia in 1994. Since 1995, she has created a series of works entitled Letters from Arcadia.
- ^ "PINK: Ter zake. Business as usual. USA 1988 – YouTube". youtube.com. 8 September 2020. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 9 September 2020.