ARTI, DE PRONKKAMER ABSTRACT

Abstract, as an art form, is a movement that developed shortly after 1900 and has since become a firmly established value in art. The idea that abstract art would not exist is unimaginable.

Seen through the eyes and hands of the artist, working in abstraction means concentration, deepening, small and large transformations, and an indescribable pleasure. For viewers, abstract art can evoke emotion, much like music. Secret pleasures and emotional resonance—it can be admired from June 13 in the Arti-pronkkamer. It is also healthy to look at art; order a “Soep met een Boekje” alongside it. With a bit of luck, you may receive the catalog Abstract as a gift. Abstract is also comfort.

Deelnemers

Pietertje van Splunter
My paintings explore color as an autonomous presence and as a universal, non-verbal form of communication. In this series, color swatches serve as a starting point, after which their fixed ordering is released during the painting process. This creates a tension between control and intuition, system and play.
From queen pink to salvia blue
From grass green to naples yellow

Maria Schilder
“Memory is a privilege.
What happens has no beginning, no end and no coherence.
Only when I turn around do I see the crossroads, the exit I took.”
Michael Zeeman

Dick Tuinder
GARK PYDOE

Sing snarkend
o flinsterdom!
drempel hemel,
sing snarkend,
zonne tepel;
gark pydoe,
gark padasz!

Wieee de boes,
Wieee de boesz!
Hang na rekel,
drink lust en
metsel gier;
gark pydoe,
gark pajadah!

In hokselbond,
joenait de zool!
meerendal de bel,
feier het getuig
in sommendom;
gark pydoe,
gark, gark, gark....Snaterzang!

Hoe!

(Door Willem Halbertsma)

Tom van de Oudeweetering
I present four photographs taken in Amsterdam. I use the canal as a mirror. The water behaves as a dancing mirror that, through its movement, transforms the recognizable into something with completely different qualities.

Jochem Houweling
Abstract because it is perhaps the most honest form of painting.

Ido Vunderink
The paintings I present in “Abstract” are from the series Clear-cut works about the cross and other objects. They are executed in oil paint on canvas, mounted on remnants of furniture board. Size and shape therefore partly arise randomly. Sometimes I paint them monochrome, sometimes color follows shape, and sometimes it does not. This choice usually comes after long hesitation and then suddenly and intuitively. There is not much more to say about it.

Jan van der Pol
My paintings are a record of my seeing, of looking at what is not there yet, and the contemplation of it, and the findings that then emerge from it.

AZIZ
Aziz Becha creates a fascinating trompe-l'œil effect with form and color that subtly disorients the viewer. The artwork plays with perception: is it merely color on a flat surface? Or are you truly touching a hidden depth?

Bob Bunck
At the exhibition Abstract, I do not show abstract work, but works ABOUT abstract art.

Maarten Ploeg (1958–2004)
The three small paintings by Maarten were likely created around 1987–1988. In that period, he began working with the Amiga computer, which he hoped would teach him to paint abstractly. In particular, the gradient tool of Deluxe Paint (later also combined with the color-cycle function as a basis for his computer works) was a major inspiration.

Willem Gorter
Drawing is, like living, movement, but on a flat surface and in my case with a brush and black watercolor paint; as a daily activity, on small handmade paper.

Lex ter Braak
My work is titled The Alphabet of Lost Order. It seeks to break open the rigid form and meaning of letters, words, and images in order to reveal their underlying fluid worlds. Each work is, so to speak, a hole in the frozen surface of the past.

Erik Romme
“the abstract reality”
During Black Lives Matter protests in the USA, shop windows were boarded up as a precaution. On these boards slogans were sprayed. These were then painted over again by the authorities. Carrie Mee Weens photographed these images…

Reinder van der Woude
2 works from the 12-part series Love supreme
A special source of inspiration was— as the title suggests— the music of John Coltrane. In particular the many rolling, sparkling, tumbling and flowing saxophone notes. Paintings as concerts. Besides the fact that all paintings in the series have a number, they also have their own title, as a gesture toward something beyond the painting. The viewer is, of course, free to think in another direction.

Image: Henrik Barends