Saturday, 21 June 2014

Isabella Werkhoven / James McNeill Whistler




James McNeill Whistler
Nocturne: Grey And Silver
1875-80
oil on linen
31,1 x 51,8 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art


Hard to make a choice, but eventually I chose the painter whose work I really looked at a lot over the years, especially in the beginning. I admired him for his revolutionary conciseness and the strong atmosphere he managed to put into it.
Isabella Werkhoven 2014



Isabella Werkhoven (NL)
Wait Until Dark
2012
oil on linen
30 x 45 cm



Isabella Werkhoven (NL)
Ray of Light
2013
oil on linen
30 x 40 cm
private collection

Sunday, 1 June 2014

Johan Tahon / Wilhelm Lehmbruck


 
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
The Kneeling One
1911
cast stone
176 x 138 x 70 cm          




Johan Tahon (BE)
Eerste oorzaak
1995
plaster and wood
330 x 115 x 260 cm (destroyed)



Saturday, 24 May 2014

Thomas Muff / Morris Louis



Morris Louis
Seal
1959
acrylic on canvas
256,8 x 357,5 cm



The painters of the so-called 'Abstract Expressionism' exerted a huge influence on me. Their generous gestures and formats, their free use of the color have impressed me a lot. Above all it is the spontaneity and the involvement of coincidence, which to this day are very close to me. One of my favorites is certainly Morris Louis. His work is impressing me still.
Thomas Muff, 2014




Thomas Muff (CH)
Landscape without shepherds (J.B.P.RMX)
2014
oil on wood
120 x 150 cm



Saturday, 17 May 2014

2. Exhibition Nothing But Good Live





Monday May 12, 2014

At the dismantling of 'Nothing But Good Live' in Park-Platform for Visual Arts in Tilburg: we thank the artists in the exhibition very much for their participation and commitment. It's been a joy!
 

Saturday, 10 May 2014

Koen Vermeule / Jacob Lawrence



Jacob Lawrence
The Migration of the Negro, panel 52
1940-1941
tempera on masonite
30,5 x 45,7 cm
The Phillips Collection, Washington DC & Museum of Modern Art, New York



When I first saw the series 'The Migration of the Negro' by Jacob Lawrence, I was deeply touched by this history of African American Americans. Not the strength of realism, but rather that of the imagination makes that these works are forever impressed in my memory.
The series consists of 60 works and seems to symbolize the universal aspiration of people of all races to a better life.
I painted 'Le Depart' in 2011, after I had seen a raft at the edge of the IJsselmeer, probably made for a race or an adventure, ready to leave. Shortly thereafter the thought came over me that many fortune seekers risk their lives in crossing the ocean on such a raft, attempting to escape poverty and misery.
Koen Vermeule, 2014


 


Koen Vermeule (NL)
Le Depart
2011
oil on canvas
96,3 x 250,4 cm
private collection München




Saturday, 3 May 2014

Albert Zwaan / Jean Brusselmans



Jean Brusselmans
Lente

1935
oil on canvas
151 x 151 cm 


Brusselmans wants to show no emotion in his art! He has a rational view of reality: the subject is only a reason for him to work out a new composition of lines, colors and patterns.




Albert Zwaan (NL)
Parking Lot
2013
oil on linen
100 x 120 cm


 


Saturday, 26 April 2014

Piet Dieleman / Krijn Giezen


 
Krijn Giezen
(From his mailorder catalogue: www.stroom.nl/krijngiezen/mailorder)



Krijn Giezen
Kijk Uit Attention
2005
staircase of 300 steps, offering a unique view of the surroundings of the Hoge Veluwe
Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo NL



In addition to all superlatives, this tribute goes to the one who has shown me the road of and towards the arts: Krijn Giezen (1939-2011).
Piet Dieleman, 2014

The anarchic humor of Fluxus, with an emphasis on play and self-devised rules, was the basis for many of his actions and objects. In his work he combined the robust nature with the ingenuity of farmers, fishermen and craftsmen. Recipes, manuals and inventions were noted by him, and processed in visual documentation. Nostalgia was not his motive, but he longed to preserve useful and essential aspects from nature and human action, and re-invigorate them. The scale on which he realized his work ranged from tiny to overwhelming.



Piet Dieleman (NL)
Design for a sculpture
2014
6000 x 4000 x 10000 mm