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

www.schuppers.com

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

www.perellobera.com

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

www.henkduijn.be

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

www.galeries.nl

Janaina Tschäpe / Edwin Abbot

“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows – only hard with luminous edges – and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said ‘my universe’: but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.” 

Excerpt from novel:
Edwin Abbot
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
1884

Janaina Tschäpe (DE/US)

Flatland

2012

mixed media on canvas

305 x 914 cm 

Courtesy of Fortes Vilaca Gallery

http://www.janainatschape.net

Erin Lawlor / Titian

Titian

The Flaying of Marsyas

c.1570-1576

oil on canvas

212 x 207 cm

Quite simply because it's all about the paint!

Erin Lawlor 2013

Erin Lawlor (EN/FR)

Flagship

2013

oil on linen

162 x 130 cm

Erin Lawlor (EN/FR)
In flagrante

2013

oil on linen

81 x 60 cm

www.erinlawlor.com

Toon Verhoef / Clorindo Testa

Clorindo Testa
Untitled

1962 
oil on canvas 
59,1 x 45,1 cm

The first artist who had a profound influence on me was Clorindo Testa, an Argentine painter and architect. I saw his work when I was 15 in Buenos Aires, where I lived in the 60's. His work spoke of the city - its grey/white concrete walls, marked, stained, graffiti, endless featureless streets, sprawling disconsolate suburbs, dust, heat, courtyards with radios playing tango, echoing the words of Homero Manzi's immortal "Sur"...

Sur,
paredón y después,
Sur,
una luz de almacén...
 
San Juan y Boedo antiguo, y todo el cielo
Pompeya y más allá la inundación...

The idea that the experience of reality could be transformed into a non-representational image, with no narrative, was an astounding discovery for me. Then I knew I wanted to make paintings.
Clorindo Testa died in April 2013, at the age of 89.

Toon Verhoef 2013

Toon Verhoef (NL)

No title
2012
oil and acrylic on canvas

150 x 100 cm 
www.toonverhoef.com