Friday 12 March 2021

Ben Sleeuwenhoek / Paul Thek



Paul Thek 

Untitled (humming top painted as a mushroom) 

1969

20 x 20 x 20 cm

tin with oil paint

collection Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

 


 

Paul Thek believed in process, in life and art in flux.

His art is largely about the transposition of symbolic content.

When I was a young artist, in the early 1970s, I acquired his artist book A Document (a document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, Amsterdam / Stockholm 1969). I still cherish it.

Although rarely seen I remained interested in his work.

Thek died in 1988.

It wasn’t until after 1995 that he became widely known through exhibitions and publications and I found more and more out that we (had) shared many themes.

 

Ben Sleeuwenhoek, 2021





Ben Sleeuwenhoek

Untitled 

2014

170 x 230 cm

oil on canvas with mirrors





Ben Sleeuwenhoek (NL/DE)

Bilderbuch 

page from a series of scrapbooks 

2018

38 x 26 cm

ink and collage 

www.instagram.com/bensleeuwenhoek

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