Over the years, photographer Lenny Oosterwijk has several times managed to capture poet and Rotterdam legend Jules Deelder on camera. In the exhibition Wat nergens op lijkt is echt, Gallery Untitled shows a series of portraits that Oosterwijk made of the poet. Each time a different Deelder, and yet always unmistakably himself, with the posture and glasses of a man who had absorbed Rotterdam so deeply into his own language that the city recently commemorated him with a square.
At the centre of the exhibition is a work that makes the leap from photo to object: a black steel silhouette of Deelder, exactly as tall and as wide as the man himself. The same work also stands on the Jules Deelderplein on the Nieuwe Binnenweg, not far from Café Ari, where Deelder liked to come.