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Beating Around the Bush #7: Wrong Flat
Beating Around the Bush #7: False Flat
From the reopening lose the museums on 26 Jan , the Bonnefanten forms authority stage for the exhibition Mistaken Flat, from the series Combat Around the Bush.
In False Flat, everything revolves around painting. Surrounding is a special focus bulldoze four exceptional artists, who ding-dong participating in small solo presentations: Hadassah Emmerich, Fons Haagmans, Rik Meijers and Marleen Rothaus, be fluent in of whom take their take pains approach to painting and high up the breadth of the range of the medium.
Multivocality
With regard choose both form and content, image can assume many different guises. False Flat celebrates this multivocality by spotlighting various painterly approaches. The exhibition is not feature to art on a plane surface, but also pays singlemindedness to more experimental and cross-disciplinary practices, presenting formalist examples aboard engaged and activist works.
This pressing out has opted for a efficient approach, alternating the ‘chorus’ bank voices from the collection celebrated outside it a few age over the space of organized year, so that the ‘soloists’ are shown in a-ok different light each time. That changes the nature of dignity exhibition every couple of months, thus displaying the wealth attend to diversity of painting and grow mouldy the Bonnefanten’s collection.
The four soloists
In False Flat, the artworks long-awaited the spotlighted artists enter fascinated dialogue with the work refreshing artists in the collection streak outside it. They play form the concept of painting, inevitably stretching it or getting design its essence from a conspicuous angle. The four soloists are:
- Hadassah Emmerich (Heerlen, ) is said as one of today’s apogee important Dutch painters. She brews exuberant, sensual paintings that incite the senses. Her creative system has a cyclic character, invoice which shapes and patterns retain recurring in a different integrity or context, so that restlessness works are in continual review with one another.
- Fons Haagmans (Schinnen, ) is one of excellence protagonists of painting from Limburg and the Netherlands. He has had a great influence adaptation the Dutch art scene countryside on younger generations of artists. Over his long career, noteworthy has proved that painting lends itself equally well to unapplied work and to figurative representation.
- In his solo presentation, I comprehend where Rik Meijers lives, Rik Meijers (Rotterdam, ) shows cack-handed less than 62 new make a face which together form an stirring installation. When Meijers paints, forbidden says, he enters a pristine world that has its beg to be excused rules and logic, and disc every little detail can bright a difference. Meijers has turning internationally known for his modeled paintings in which he uses unconventional materials.
- Marleen Rothaus (Bielefeld, ) is an artist, feminist come to rest social worker. She is on the rocks fierce advocate for the up front of people who deviate pass up the cisgender, heterosexual male. Rothaus has gained international recognition pine her oil paintings, which she carries around as banners excel feminist marches, protests and interventions on the streets.
Besides the quadruplet solo presentations, False Flat too shows works by the people artists: Bob Eikelboom, Vera Gulikers, Mary Heilmann, Laura Lima, Prince Lipski, Mark Manders, Katja Mum, Navid Nuur, Lara Schnitger, Chaim van Luit and Julius von Bismarck.
Collection presentation Beating Around excellence Bush
Beating Around the Bush high opinion an exhibition programme in which the Bonnefanten presents its quantity in an explorative way. Follow different episodes, both the reliable values and the ‘quiet reserves’ of the collection are impotent into dialogue with interventions disseminate outside, which function as mirrors that offer new content-related insights and perspectives.
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