- Slut dato: 2024-05-25
Paul Smulders
Caesura
13.03 - 25.05
Paul Smulders welcomes you at this video: Paul Smulders Caesura
When Paul Smulders takes a new turn in his art, he does it completely and with great conviction. After more than ten years, with a focus on reflections in nature, the exhibition in Gallery NB is a total change.
On Saturday April 13 the exhibition, Caesura has vernissage and the enormous change in Paul Smulders paintings will strike the visitors. What used to be recognizable and understandable has now changed to abstract works with a strong personal expression. Paul Smulders himself says that he works with, or perhaps more correctly, researches, the concepts described by the caesura, which have in common that they always refer to the separation between two things.
In his work, Paul Smulders particularly reflects on the physical forces of nature through his very own experimental methodology of applying paint to the canvas. In this unique process, he employs chemical reactions that reveal breathtaking details. When we scrutinize his works up close, an entirely new dimension of his art reveals itself. In his free style performance – much like an innate force of creation – he controls the flowing layers of moving paint and freezes them as snapshots of an ever changing, fluidic vision. He embraces chance as his companion in this process.
„I observed in nature – both in the micro and macro environment – that in most natural phenomena, forces are expressed simultaneously; unforeseen factors play a very important role in their appearance and progression. There are no identical phenomena. Chance is a factor in evolution. In my studio practice, while I repeat the same process over and over, I deliberately allow flaws to take the work in new directions - that is how I achieve improvement.”
Paul Smulders lives in Amsterdam and since 1995, he has been working with Galleri NB. For both parties it has been an extremely interesting and exciting journey, where his painting has taken new turns from time and time. The changes happen at yearlong intervals and bear witness to an ambitious artist with great artistic talent, as Paul Smulders succeeds in creating convincing expressions on the canvas.
Additional information:
Link to videointroduction:
Paul Smulders - Caesura invitation
Paul Smulders - About Caesura
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KunstRAI 2024 has a focus on Denmark.
On this occasion, we are invited to exhibit a sharp selection of artists at Galleri NB's booth 38.
That is why we are excited to present these three artists:
Vilmantas - John Reuss - Steen Larsen
KunstRAI
27.03 - 01.04
Opening hours:
Wednesday: 4-9 pm
Thursday: 11am - 6 pm
Friday: 12- 9 pm
Saturday: 11 am - 6 pm
Sunday: 11 am - 6 pm
Monday: 11 am - 6 pm
Location:
RAI AMSTERDAM hall 8 (parkhall)
Europaplein 24, 1078 GZ Amsterdam
- Slut dato: 2024-04-06
Andrea Damp
Nightflight
02.03 - 06.04
Grand Opening
Saturday 2 March at 2-4 p.m.
where Andrea Damp will be present
The exhibition will be introduced right after.
Statement:
Andrea Damp balances between subtle abstraction and figuration in her paintings. Her works are created in a sophisticated process of layers and overlays, which make the sensitive process of the paintings' creation more tangible.
Using figurative elements, the artist transforms her compositions into narratives, associative pictorial worlds characterized by atmosphere and emotional expression. Andrea Damp's paintings thus form an incomparable connection between the autonomy of color and its ability to serve expression.
Andrea Damp's paintings are also closely linked to the artist's biography, where her growing up on the island of Rügen occupies a special place. Already 200 years ago, the south-eastern part of Rügen fascinated and inspired the painters of the Romantic period. And it was precisely here that Andrea Damp grew up in close contact with the elements, which has directly meant that the protagonists in her works are always in close dialogue with nature with wind, earth and water.
In her latest works, which are exhibited in "Night flight", Andrea Damp has explored among other subjects, the most volatile of the elements - namely, air and wind. For her, who comes from an old fishing family, the wind has always been a decisive element. The wind determined whether the boats could sail, whether there was high or low water, whether the roads remained passable in winter or whether meter-high drifts of snow blocked the paths.
Not far from Berlin, where the artist lives today, aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal was the first to conquer the air with his gliders in the mid-1800s. Several of Andrea Damp's paintings thus refer to his constructions and they are the ones that have inspired her to create paintings where the air and its movements lift the flying machines into the sky - here with the help of the painting's artistic touch. Andrea Damp's painterly exploration of the element of air has been given a new expression in these canvases and the artist has created a way to make the invisible and intangible element tangible in these paintings.
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