… Studies, Diana Scherer was inspired by 17th-century encyclopedias in which plants were depicted with their roots intact. However, she did not grow her plants in open soil, but in a vase. You … echoes the shape of the vase—the ultimate cultural object. Each individual work is titled with a date, revealing the precision of a collector cataloguing nature. …
… Bas de Wit (Budel, 1977) woont en werkt in Maastricht. 'Figuren uit ons collectieve geheugen, … ontdaan van hun oorspronkelijke betekenis en beladen met nieuwe boodschappen. Zo schetsen De Wit s schilderijen, tekeningen en installaties een beeld van een comédie humaine die …
… is painting itself. He imposes strict limitations on himself to seek maximum freedom within them. For years, he has used only six colors, and his figures are restricted to geometric … cover a surface or provide a glimpse through? In both cases, they create the illusion of space, with the actual depiction consisting of emptiness captured in paint. …
… van Vught (Goirle, 1960) is a master in the 'controlled letting go'. When editing photos with paint, chance plays a major role. How the pigment ends up where, how it is smeared or not, … fields. In so doing he leaves them stopped in time and in a state in which they will never wither. …
… van Vught (Goirle, 1960) is a master in the 'controlled letting go'. When editing photos with paint, chance plays a major role. How the pigment ends up where, how it is smeared or not, … fields. In so doing he leaves them stopped in time and in a state in which they will never wither. …
… Christie van der Haak, decoration is no afterthought. In her work, patterns take center stage, with a variation in color, rhythm, and scale that is never intrusive yet never-ending. In doing so, she aligns herself with American Pattern Painting—a movement that never really caught on in the Netherlands. She is …
… Johan van Oord (Werkendam, 1950) has painted compositions since the mid-1980’s. He juggles with simple motifs, until he finds a certain balance. Once in balance, he varies a composition with colour, size and material. In so doing he creates a ‘familial’ series of smaller and larger …
… a certain organism, a growth process. These and other organic forms enter into a relationship with each other and with their environment. There are also always flaws in the canvas; so-called mutations of the …
… Vele invloeden zijn hierin te traceren: het Amerikaanse minimalisme van Donald Judd en Sol LeWitt, het utopisch denken van een architect als Le Corbusier, maar ook het modernisme van … in size. His work reflects many influences: the American minimalism of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, the utopian thinking of an architect like Le Corbusier, as well as the modernism of …
… daarmee een eigen vocabulaire ontwikkeld. Letters, words and short sentences are the 'material' with which Marc Ruygrok (Voorburg, 1953) builds his works. Striking and characteristic in this … shapes: circles, squares, spheres and cubes. He draws, builds and photographs these images and with that has over the years developed his own vocabulary. …