Saturday 28 September 2013

Martijn Schuppers / Ad Reinhardt





Ad Reinhardt
Abstract Painting
1963
oil on canvas
152,4 x 152,4 cm
Gift of Mrs. Morton J. Hornick.
© 2013 Estate of Ad Reinhardt / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York



You can paint anything, and you can paint anything out. You can begin with anything and get rid of it. I already got rid of all that other stuff. Someone else doesn’t have to do it.
Ad Reinhardt



Martijn Schuppers (NL)
#0909
2009
acrylic, alkyd and oil on polyester canvas
100 x 90 cm
Courtesy VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam



Saturday 21 September 2013

Pere Llobera / Francisco Goya




Goya
El Pelele  
1791/1792
oil on canvas
267 x 160 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid



Pere Llobera (ES/NL)
Presagio (Premonition)
2013
oil on canvas
31 x 43 cm



This is one of my latest works (Premonition) and it makes me think of Goya. Goya is the kind of artist I would like to be. No doubt about that. In my opinion all of Goya's works are remarkable, especially the 'Caprichos'-series. Sociological sharpness and freshness of the art. It is like creating an artist by mixing Blake and Rembrandt. A very good cocktail.
I chose a very strange work of him: 'El Pelele' (the puppet). It is an ugly work, but extremely powerful in portraying the emptiness. It makes me think of our present, internet, etc... I know why but it takes to long to explain here.
The last image of mine is a self-portrait changing the TV channels with a tree branch. The title: 'Involution now'. In my opinion this is pure: Caprichos.
Pere Llobera 2013



Pere Llobera (ES/NL)
Involució (Involution now)
2011
oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm



Saturday 14 September 2013

Henk Duijn / Francesco del Cairo




Francesco del Cairo
St. Sebastian Healed by St. Irene
ca. 1635
oil on linen
68 x 84 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours




Henk Duijn (NL/BE)
Untitled
2013
acrylic on wood
20 x 15 cm



Friday 6 September 2013

Arno Kramer / Michelangelo




Michelangelo
Study for Saint Laurence
1534-1536
black chalk on paper
24,2 x 18,2 cm
Teylers Museum, Haarlem NL


When there ever has been one artist who has shown me that you can make a drawing in its hesitation and search for the ultimate unconscious to a unique piece of art, it is Michelangelo. What a happiness that most of his drawings have been meant as sketches for other work, like paintings and sculptures. It is an interesting question if we do not look now for autonomous quality with a today’s view. But what does it matter. From nearly every drawing I can learn something. It has to do with the fact that all his drawings have a certain openness, searching for the right things, the ideal forms, the human being in all its vulnerability. In details you see the phenomenal vision and technique glittering. From all sides sparks passion. Following small mistakes in for example the corrections of drawing an arm in three states, makes the drawing even more lively.
Arno Kramer, August 28 2013




Arno Kramer (NL)
Untitled
2013
pencil on paper
43 x 51,6 cm