Shusaku Arakawa
The Enigmas of Correspond
1965
mixed media on paper
92,5 × 62,5 cm
Shusaku Arakawa
That In Which No. 2
1974–1975
acrylic, graphite, and marker on canvas
165,1 x 259,1 cm
Shusaku Arakawa
NO! Says the Volume
1978
acrylic, pencil on canvas
190,5 x 312,5 cm
Through associations and observations, Shusaku Arakawa creates paintings that present as schematic, mathematical examinations. He captures fiction in factual design. His work challenges our desire to accept what we see as ‘truth’ and pushes us to doubt. I try to bring out this tension between fact and fiction in my work as well.
Arakawa’s work presents as a puzzle in which answers lie. The desire to explore and solve that his work brings to the fore (and the impossibility to find the promised answers, which creates space for interpretation) is, to me, the essence of his work.
'What I want to paint is the condition that precedes the moment in which the imagination goes to work and produces mental representations.' —Arakawa
Maaike Kramer, 2020
Maaike Kramer
Fold here
2020
photography and pencil on concrete
39,5 x 29 x 2,5 cm
Maaike Kramer
Either/Neither (bewust)
2019
pencil, pastel and charcoal drawing on wood and concrete
244 x 61 x 5,5 cm
Maaike Kramer (NL)
Loop
2019
pencil, pastel and charcoal drawing and pigment in concrete
230 x 36 x 10 cm
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