1. Exhibition Nothing But Good Live

 

Park-Platform for Visual Arts in Tilburg NL organised an exhibition based on this blog, entitled Nothing But Good Live. Reinoud van Vught and René Korten are co-curators for this artist-run exhibition space.

In the exhibition one work is shown of all the participants in the blog until March 2014. The work of the chosen predecessors is shown as a small reproduction in a timeline on the long table in the exhibition space.
The exhibition opened on Saturday March 22 2014 and ran until May 11.

Impression of the opening reception on March 22:

Design of the timeline -in three parts- presented in the centre of the exhibition:

 

Detail of the timeline:

 Installation views of the exhition:

www.park013.nl

Jan van de Pavert / Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix

Leda and the Swan

1834

fresco

63 x 88 cm

One of a series of three made for the Abbaye de Valmont, now in Musée Delacroix in Paris

I have chosen the work of Delacroix because I think it seems uninhibited in an enjoyable way. I 'm a fan of several works by Delacroix.
In my own painting four girls are sitting around a shisha. It is a part of a big work I will make this summer. The big work will be entitled 'Freedom represented by contemporary youths hanging around and historical figures'. These four girls will be part of it and I made this work as a preliminary study.
The big work will be 4.5 x 6 meters and is meant for the great hall of Arts Centre De Appel in Amsterdam, where it will be shown in the exhibition 'When Elephants come marching in' by Mark Kremer, about psychedelia and conceptualism. In addition to the Dutch-Moroccan girls (the left I think is Turkish) there will be more young people, as well as Wally Tax, the Provos Roel van Duijn and Rob Stolk, Free Jazz musicians Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane, Eugene Delacroix  and William Blake, a group of feminists from around 1800, including Mary Wollstonecraft, and a few figures from the Kommune 1 in former West Berlin.
Jan van de Pavert, 2014

 

Jan van de Pavert (NL)

De shisha

2014

acrylic on canvas

152 x 175 cm

janvandepavert.nl

Claudia Kölgen / August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Wonderland

1894

oil on canvas

72,5 x 52cm

Nationalmuseum Stockholm

When I saw the painting Wonderland of August Strindberg I couldn't stop looking at this scene of landscape. My eyes were trying to find recognizable forms, or find some orientation. But everything seemed to flow, restless and moving – there was nothing to hold on to. In the centre the white indefinite open space of light leads into deep fog. I was touched and fascinated. 
Claudia Kölgen, 2014

Claudia Kölgen (NL) 
Zonder titel 
2007
C-print
40 x 60 cm
www.claudiakolgen.com


 

Johan De Wilde / Johannes Vermeer

 

 

Johannes Vermeer

De Astronoom

1668

oil on canvas

51 x 45 cm

Louvre, Paris

Johan De Wilde (BE)

History052

2014

tekening

21 x 29,7 cm

www.johandewilde.be

Paul den Hollander / René Magritte

René Magritte
The Domain of Arnheim (detail)
1938
oil on canvas
73 x 100 cm

In the paintings of Magritte (1898-1967), we see the game with the subjective perception of reality, full of seriousness and humor. He achieved this by faithful images of objects, people, animals and plants.The unexpected in his work is the way in which these objects are combined with each other or put opposite each other.

His painting is like poetry that stimulates the beholder's presumption of secrets.
Magritte's line of thought was that "as long as we believe that we are dependent on atoms and molecules that constitute our matter, we can not recognize that it is our eternal being from which we regard the material, which changes according to the perspective of looking".

Excerpts Jacques Meuris, 'Rene Magritte', Taschen

Paul den Hollander (NL)

Luminous Garden #85

2011

C-print

120 x 95 cm

www.pauldenhollander.nl

Carlos Caballero / Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky

from The Mirror

1975

filmstill

My work often has a relation with the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. ‘The Mirror' (1975) is one of the most important Tarkovsky films, where the autobiographical story and many scenes refer to Tarkovsky’s memory of his home.

‘August afternoon' (2013) is a piece where the idea of memories and manipulated or ironic past articulates the idea of this piece. The context refers to ‘home’ as symbolic space and mental structure.

Carlos Caballero, 2013
 

Carlos Caballero (CU/US)

August afternoon 

from the series Autobiographical memory

2013 

oil on canvas 

132 x 157,5 cm

courtesy Roberto Polo Gallery, Brussels

www.carloscaballerostudio.com

Linda Arts / Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin 
Night Sea 
1963
oil and gold leaf on canvas
183 x 183 cm

While living in New York between 1957 and 1967, Agnes Martin (1912-2004) began to experiment with symmetrical compositions comprising circles and squares under the influence of artists such as Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly. Her grid paintings, which some critics linked to the machine-edged Minimalist movement, are actually examples of Abstract Expressionism, dense with gestural markings and unmistakable traces of the artist’s hand. In their purity and meditative quality, the canvases suggest a spiritualism that reflects Martin’s interest in nature (particularly the desert landscapes of New Mexico) and Eastern religions, notably Daoism. The paintings created after her return to Taos in 1967 became increasingly ethereal, the grids sometimes so faint that they seemed to be fading into a shimmering mist.

 

Linda Arts (NL) 
Untitled #213 
2009
oil on woodpanel
60 x 90 cm 
www.lindaarts.nl