Kunstwerk: Blue mountain blue

… 'Ik Jan Cremer' ('I Jan Cremer) (Enschede, 1940). Many people do not know that he was already working as a visual artist before then (the book came out in 1964). He has worked in both Paris and New York and one can find a clear development in his art. The works of Jan Cremer, both his paintings and his graphic work, are mostly inspired by nature and …
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Kunstwerk: Heaven at earth at one finger

… hangt die mooi past bij het thema hemel en aarde. Josephine Sloet (Amsterdam, 1945) lives and works in The Hague. Amongst other places Sloet's work can be seen in a number of train carriages and at The Hague’s Hollands Spoor railway station. Her work is characterised with her fascination with 'the endless change that influences all'. The …
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Kunstwerk: Memento

… duidelijk herkenbaar. Guido Lippens is a sculptor, painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and he worked as a teacher at art academies. Initially, Lippens produced figurative and expressionist work, mostly abstracted female figures. Characteristic of his later work are repetitive motifs from nature and decorative arts, or in the form of utensils such as …
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Kunstwerk: Zonder titel

… Reinoud van Vught is een meester in het ‘gecontroleerd loslaten’. In elk medium waarin hij werkt – zoals schilderen, fotograferen en tekenen – speelt het toeval een … helemaal tot stilstand komt. Reinoud van Vught is a master of ‘controlled letting go’. In every medium in which he works - such as painting, photography and drawing - serendipity plays a major role. How and …
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Kunstwerk: Zonder titel

… heden.' Femmy Otten (Amsterdam, 1981) A number of recurring themes are central in Femmy Otten’s work, for example the classic practises of sculpture and painting, and also mythology, a subject which is often seen. She herself says about her work: 'I expose, as it were, the memory structure of the wood with which I work. I add the legends within my memory to the depth of history that we are still familiar …
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Kunstwerk: Sunrise adventures #25

… to creating photographs, collages, and assemblages, Braam primarily focuses on sculptural work—ranging from subtly scaled to imposing in size. His work reflects many influences: the American minimalism of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, the … of the Dutch landscape and the raw, urban chaos of Braam’s home city Berlin converge in his work. … Bram Braam … Bram Braam …
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Kunstwerk: O.W.

… makes 3D computer animations and digital prints. Landscapes are a recurrent theme in Brand's works. The work O.W. (2002) dates from the period when the artist still produced many paintings, and …
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Kunstwerk: Missing You

… culture by bringing together different formal languages in his paintings. On the one hand, his work is in the tradition of American abstraction in the 20th century; on the other, he draws … forms and the precisely visible personal search for expression are characteristic of his work. … Shaan Tariq Hassan Syed … Shaan Tariq Hassan Syed …
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Kunstwerk: Zonder titel

… ontstaat. Jos van Venrooij (The Hague, 1960) often reuses existing, discarded materials in his work and gives them a new life as an art object or piece of furniture. The early work Zonder Titel (1994) is a collage in which various simplistic forms refer to recognisable …
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Kunstwerk: Zonder titel

… Marielle Buitendijks (Hilversum, 1976) paintings are highly abstracted images of architectural sites such as stadiums. The locations she uses for her paintings are normally places where many … depicting them as empty and desolate, the paintings acquire a certain alienation. As Buitendijk works with spray cans and airbrush, her paintings often seem almost like blurred photographs. … …
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