Nothing But Good

Saturday, 26 September 2015

Wil Jansen / Jan Schoonhoven

Jan Schoonhoven

Zonder Titel

1983

screenprint on paper (edition of 20)

66,5 x 50,5 cm (paper size)

Rhythm and Regularity

Wil Jansen, 2015

Wil Jansen (NL)

Recycled oilpainting

2015

oil

30 x 24 x 8 cm

www.wiljansen.com

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Karl Bielik / Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters

Collage

1920

courtesy Pinacotheca Gallery NY
(from 'The Dada Painters and Poets' - Robert Motherwell, 1951)

Kurt Schwitters

Untitled (Everybody's)

collage

1945

Scratching around as a design student in Stockport in the late 80's making collages, videos and screenprints, a tutor suggested I look at Robert Motherwell's book on Dada and specifically Kurt Schwitters. Dada became my first art love - what they were up to did it for me. Collage, automatic writing and found objects continued to inform my work for many years. My paintings have moved elsewhere since but without Kurt I might not be making anything.
Karl Bielik, 2015

Karl Bielik (UK)

Fracture

2014

oil on panel

36 x 28 cm

www.karlbielik.com

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Hans Klein Hofmeijer / Joseph Beuys

'Out of hand lines'

(quote from my workbook-diaries series 'My second memory', HKH)

THOROUGHLY DRAWINGS, Joseph Beuys.

I would like to limit myself to drawing here, in particular to the drawing idea of Joseph Beuys.

His searching and exploring hand reveals content while drawing. He tries to touch the true nature of things by doing, far from having a pre-defined plan of intent. This is an important source of inspiration.

With a continued hesitating hand, where ambiguity is predominant, he finds his way in the melting pot of perceptions. An homage to the will to understand and to the open mind.

The actual drawn trace remaining visible on the paper, brings us a very rich experience of what is interpreted. Thoroughly feeling, thoroughly thinking, thoroughly seeing, thoroughly knowing and thoroughly drawing ensure that the sheets of Joseph Beuys are attempts to bring, in the highest possible intensity, the comprehensive nature of the subject in the spotlight. This is accompanied by a lived through, open approach to the drawn, also assuming that reality is always in a state of motion. These dynamics therefore deliver a very extensive viewing experience.

Hans Klein Hofmeijer, 2015