… -268 Het kunstwerk dat te zien is bij de GGZ van de kunstenaar Theo Wittering toont ons een stilleven. Een stilleven opgebouwd uit een tafel, een appel en citroenen. De citroenen maken de compositie spannend, want Wittering heeft met de citroenen en met bordjes een toren gebouwd. Deze toren lijkt stabiel te … Hierdoor wordt het stilleven veel spannender, dan als de toren er niet gestaan had. … Theo Wittering … Theo Wittering …
… Dominique Teufen (Davos, Switzerland, in 1975) uses all kinds of materials she encounters in everyday life to compose, with her photocopier, imaginary landscapes. She carefully builds up the image, plays with volumes and varies the lighting by adjusting the copier lid to be more open or closed. She …
… understands him. Observing from a distance is the only thing that’s left over. And he does that with extra intensity, with a keen eye for the everyday triviality. He also takes on that outsider’s position when back … who is trapped by an anonymous environment. Vermeule portrays him as if in a snapshot: without storyline, expression or meaning. He is simply there. … Koen Vermeule … Koen Vermeule …
… Witte bloemen staan voor onschuld en maagdelijkheid. Blauwe worden vaak ingezet om … Blue are often used to depict divinity, power and eternity. And red flowers symbolise love. But with Margriet Smulders (Bussum, 1955) all those meanings dissolve in a fully theatrical … all an exuberant, sensual expression of life. The flowers are just on the point of beginning to wither and so can seductive excess turn into rot and decay. Eros and Thanatus go hand in hand. … …
… zodat het gerecyclede materiaal gebruikt kon worden in een 3D-printer. Het ietwat vergeelde wit van de afgedankte elektronica geeft Nuetens verbeelding van het virtuele bijna iets … Nuyten made the pattern visible that is caused by electrodes. The artist, who feels a kinship with the conceptual masters of the 1960s, experimented with a new material for this. She had the plastic casings of old computer monitors ground down …
… Witte bloemen staan voor onschuld en maagdelijkheid. Blauwe worden vaak ingezet om … Blue are often used to depict divinity, power and eternity. And red flowers symbolise love. But with Margriet Smulders (Bussum, 1955) all those meanings dissolve in a fully theatrical … all an exuberant, sensual expression of life. The flowers are just on the point of beginning to wither and so can seductive excess turn into rot and decay. Eros and Thanatus go hand in hand. … …
… The artist Lieven Hendriks (Velp, 1970) knows how to intrigue and sometimes mislead the viewer with his virtual painting technique. For example, he paints nails in the wall, hyper-realistic … that fool the viewer. The work “Untitled” (1999) appeals to the imagination in a different way: with only two colours and a number of simple shapes, it sets up a story with floating signs that you, the spectator, can interpret further. … Lieven Hendriks … Lieven …
… begint te 'swingen' zoals de kunstenaar het noemt. Adam Colton (Manchester, 1957) plays with the processes of transformation. By systematically cutting away material - based upon the … spatial relationships into a pattern - the form of the sculpture emerges. At first he worked with large blocks of plaster, later also with polyurethane foam, aluminum and wood. He enlarges, shrinks and disorganises, just as long …
… Oceania, he adopted the tough, sturdy forms of tribal art. In Tibet, he felt a deep connection with nature, which has been the main subject of his work ever since. His most commonly used … nature is the tree. However, he has completely stripped that down, usually to a few branches, with sometimes a single leaf. Warffemius finds the essence with minimal means. … Piet Warffemius … Piet Warffemius …
… De foto s van Marleen Sleeuwits (Enschede, 1980) zijn het resultaat van een persoonlijk onderzoek naar ruimtes. Voor de … van kleur en licht. Deze tijdloze decors blijven je als kijker fascineren. … Marleen Sleeuwits … Marleen Sleeuwits …