In Thailand you stumble across the small studios where a painting is made from a photo or a picture. The quality varies from bad to very good. The Dutch artist Suus Suiker now also knows this and is very disappointed. She did not know what she heard when she was told that someone in Thailand was forging her paintings, the Brabants Dagblad reports.
Suus Suiker (Suzanne C. Suiker/1966) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. and started in 1991 as a free visual artist. In her free work she combines abstract and figurative elements, with a magical realistic and/or spiritual undertone.
A former colleague of the artist from Goirle in Brabant recognized the counterfeit work among acquaintances. Via-via she found out who made the one. It turned out to be an admirer who sent photos of the paintings to Thailand, where they were copied, printed on canvas and sold for real 'Sugars'. She has now filed a report and has 12 of the illegal copies in her own hands. “I am very sad about it,” she says. “Those works are my soul and salvation, it has taken me years to get this far.”
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A bit unnecessary means that you make very nice work, everything that is beautiful is copied, I would be proud of it. An expert can really see the difference.
Even Herman Brood had his work made here and then sold it in the Netherlands.
Is that forgery? you can still draw or paint a photo, painting or whatever. As soon as you add a name that refers to a painter or draftsman that is not correct, then it becomes a different story. What are we worrying about.
Sue Sugar.
Why should you be disappointed if your works are repainted in Thailand. I will consider it an honor. And it must often be people who don't understand it when they buy those works that have been painted for real prestige. After painting is allowed and is not punishable. Only the false signature of any famous artist, painter or painter may appear below it. Because then you will definitely get into trouble at customs and the work will be seized and destroyed and a very nice fine. So sorry that's not that bad. Happened a lot in Poland in the past and that was dirt cheap compared to the Netherlands. And now also in Thailand for a long time. What are we worried about. The market in the Netherlands is not flooded with it.
Selling for real with a false signature is of course just a scam. Furthermore, I would see it as advertising. Real “art lovers” who think they can buy a real work of yours in Bankok for almost nothing will never buy anything from you in Holland for your price. So you won't lose anything and you may gain fame as a result. By the way, a lot is copied in Thailand, but you will not often find false signatures. These copies rarely have a signature.
If you should take a look in Phnom Phen / Cambodia, you will come across real masters in copying. AND !!! many dollars cheaper than in Thailand.
Have Herman Brood made there in the past, he did it himself.
Dear Suus,
It's like watches and other things. Someone with taste and who of course has the money to buy a real Rolex will never buy a copy. The same goes for your paintings.
Think of it as free advertising for you. After all, if this hadn't happened, most readers of this blog would never have heard of you!
I watched the video and my first impression is : what a bloated frog .
She may become famous for her behavior, but not for her art.
As she rages tearing and trampling these paintings
let her see what kind of person she is .
Have someone like that at home.
I think a frustrated person , who wants to draw attention to himself , bah .
Like the untamed shrew.
Ruudje
if they copy you you are good, if they don't you are not so popular, they also paint the Night Watch almost perfectly ....
It's not because you're good that it gets counterfeited. It was just requested by a customer. What the customer asks for is counterfeited. So you won't find those counterfeit paintings on the street here! Like, for example, you could find a Degas or a Renoir copy.
It's not just in Thailand, it's very small here compared to what's happening in China.
I just read a piece in the Guardian about an exhibition being organized in England, where visitors to the museum must try to distinguish the copies from real works of art. In China there are entire cities that live on this and those painters specialize themselves in a certain style – eg impressionism