Farewell Nouvelles Images!
Auke de Vries
Uwe Poth
Michael Tedja
Armando
Dino Ruissen
Lucassen
David Vandekop
Kazuo Kadonaga
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Bertus Pieters
Miek Hoekzema
There is good news and there is sad news.
Raquel van Haver
Raquel van Haver
Raquel van Haver
Gean Moreno
Let’s start with the good news: there is a wonderful summer show at Nouvelles Images.
Gean Moreno
Gean Moreno
Carlson Hatton
It is curated by Michael Tedja (1971) and it has become a, what you might call, particularly rhythmic exhibition.
Carlson Hatton
Carlson Hatton
Carlson Hatton
That results sometimes in some, what i would call, high density works like Carlson Hatton’s (1974) works on paper, Miek Hoekzema’s (1973) video, Radcliffe Bailey’s (1968) collages or even some colourful works by Moshekwa Langa (1975).
Carlson Hatton
Ronald Ophuis
Ronald Ophuis
They are “high density” in that they have more to show in one square foot than the eye can absorb in one view.
Moshekwa Langa
Moshekwa Langa
Dwight Marica
One colour or detail will distract you from another and so make your eyes jump, sometimes from dreams to nightmares.
Dwight Marica
Dwight Marica
Dwight Marica
That in fact also happens with the whole show; it plunges you from one aspect of society into another, from Samson Kambalu’s (1975) almost meditative Boat video’s – presented as a kind of diptych – to Richard Bott’s (1972) alternative disidentified icons for different internet media and to Ronald Ophuis’ (1968) macabre paintings.
Dwight Marica
Dwight Marica
Dwight Marica
Being happy that art galleries are one of the few places without irritating background music, i think this show makes clear that there is enough music in the works themselves and the way they are selected and presented.
Michael Tedja
Michael Tedja
Evren Tekinoktay
The sad news is that this is Nouvelles Images’ penultimate show.
Evren Tekinoktay
Richard Bott
Richard Bott
The gallery will close its doors on October 1st.
Samson Kambalu
Samson Kambalu
Samson Kambalu
It means the oldest and one of the biggest commercial galleries in the Netherlands will stop existing.
Liv Yiva
Liv Yiva
Liv Yiva
Especially for The Hague this will be a great loss as the gallery’s space makes it more like a small museum.
Liv Yiva
Miek Hoekzema
Miek Hoekzema
Sad though this is, i look back with gratitude for what Nouvelles Images has shown.
Miek Hoekzema
Miek Hoekzema
Radcliffe Bailey
Dwight Marica
As such, the present show might be an inspiration for whatever the future will bring.
Dwight Marica
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Bertus Pieters
Revealing is an impressive group show as one may expect in grand old Nouvelles Images. Running right through the generations, it shows works by Toon Teeken (1944), Joost van den Toorn (1954), Omar Koubâa (1979) and guest artist Marie Civikov (1979).
Few Dutch painters have such a great mastery of applying such a rich diversity in colour, texture and meaning as Teeken has.
Necessarily only part of this can be seen in a group show, but what an examples they are!
On show are some portraits of great names, both concise and expressive, and a recent series of smaller but very rich paintings called Interaction.
Van den Toorn is another artist with an extremely rich visual language.
He is best known for his sculpture, often gifted with a great sense of humour that seems to touch the seriousness of his subjects without becoming killingly ironic.
In this exhibition he shows an enormous series of ceramic plates and saucers with portraits of figures of national and / or international fame.
Koubâa is an artist who uses paint as a trigger for his great imagination.
In the exhibition he shows collages and paintings.
In his works, especially the bigger ones, it is not just worthwhile wandering through all the details but also to focus in and out, as each one is a cosmos with a constellation of its own.
His abstractions are not technical ones but seem to be ways to find common ground with the abstract idea of the world itself.
Civikov is digging into her personal family history and as such in European history, but her work is much more than that.
Different modern and postmodern concepts and ways of seeing are used, from abstraction and surrealism to her very personal and almost painfully clear use of colour and light.
Her figures are extremely crisp and clear as if they try to cling to memory without allowing it to become sentimental.
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Bertus Pieters
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
The title [At] Home covers only part of the present exhibition at Nouvelles Images. For instance guest artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo (1970) shows his video Guernica Syndrome, Azor.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Azor was Franco’s yacht. Sánchez bought it and had it demolished to neat parcels of junk.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
The definitive demolition goes on overnight and looks like a faint echo of the demolition of Guernica.
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
But it also shows that the trauma of the Franco era is still there in Sánchez’s homeland Spain (and sadly we can still witness it in recent developments there).
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
History, perception and its traumas are also part of Hamid El Kanbouhi’s (1976) great and impressive installation Take a LeaFe,
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
It tries to balance between different cultures, expectations and facts.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen (1956) shows her photo series Destroyed House Gaza, probably the most literal interpretation of the show’s title.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
She shows the destroyed house as a stage of remembrance, its trauma and its re-ordered emptiness.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
In a way they may remind you of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings of the 1980s.
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Marjan Teeuwen
Remembrance and destruction, the more they become traumatic the more they become monumental as well.
Marjan Teeuwen
Fernando Sánchez Castillo
As such Nouvelles Images has made a very coherent and moving show in which the aesthetics of all three artists communicate very well.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Demolition and distortion and us trying to find a way, a place and a reason in them, traumatic as they may seem, have an aesthetics of their own.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Hamid El Kanbouhi
Earlier works by El Kanbouhi and Teeuwen are adding to these aesthetics.
Hamid El Kanbouhi
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Bertus Pieters
Cosmic and earthly explorations are being carried out at Nouvelles Images gallery, by four artists:
Ton Kraayeveld (1955), Rinke Nijburg (1964), Sara Rajaei (1976) and Amos Mulder (1982).
The last two are guests to the gallery and show videos and photo works that give the whole exhibition an edge.
Kraayeveld shows modernism, the style that tried to shape an ideal world, but he paints it in a desolate way, abandoned and senseless.
There are two videos by Mulder on show in diffuse footage about the interpretation of dreams and UFO’s.
No, don’t shrug your shoulders, this is good and compelling stuff (though seats, and a place with less reflection in the monitors would improve the experience).
Nijburg sees the sublime in the cosmos and the divine on earth.
Although he has some impressive bigger works on show i personally prefer his smaller ones.
It is as if the vastness of the universe is best experienced in these smaller gems.
Rajaei shows photographs and a video.
They deal with man’s relationship to time and landscape.
The video is a good almost meditative central piece to the show.
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Bertus Pieters
Jan van der Pol
After the sad loss of Erik Bos last winter Nouvelles Images gallery has a new manager.
Jan van der Pol
Marie Jeanne de Rooij has the ambitious task to give both continuity and new impulses to this oldest of Dutch galleries.
Jan van der Pol
Her first exhibition shows works by four artists.
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
It is remarkable that she didn’t choose to organize a big group show to close the ranks.
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
She clearly chose to close the ranks more aesthetically and substantively.
Auke de Vries
Her experience with big spaces obviously helped her in this big gallery, making one big show loosely based on one idea: landscape.
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol (1949), combining in his paintings landscapes-as-found-footage from different sources, gives an idea of present day painted reality.
Jan van der Pol
Jan van der Pol
There are some fine drawings by Van der Pol on show as well.
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
L.J.A.D. Creyghton (1954) photographed landscapes of the Western Front of World War I, roughly from the northern Ardennes to the southern Vosges.
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
He also photographed ‘souvenirs’ from these places.
Awoiska van der Molen
Using photography as a more or less spiritual medium his works connect well with works by invited artist Awoiska van der Molen (1972) who internalises landscapes with this still more or less miraculous medium.
Auke de Vries
Auke de Vries
The few small works by Auke de Vries (1937), one of the doyens of the gallery (who has a big exhibition in Museum Beelden aan Zee at the moment), show sculpture as part of an invisible landscape.
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
Jan van der Pol
L.J.A.D. Creyghton
Jan van der Pol
As a whole this fine and strongly reflective show underscores the space – or the different spaces – of the gallery itself.
Awoiska van der Molen
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Bertus Pieters
Art fairs aren’t the most exciting places to see real surprises and Art The Hague is no exception, in spite of it calling itself ‘quirky’.
To be honest, compared to last year the ascending line seems to have levelled.
Klaas Gubbels – Rento Brattinga
Pieter de Krom – Vonkel
In the offices next to the hangar (places where you might expect something interesting in the very short tradition of this fair in this place) there is little reason for excitement.
Marie Pop – Vonkel
Ko Aarts – Rento Brattinga
Johannes Langkamp – A Gallery Named Sue
Although some interesting items are on show, the arrangements are a bit messy (the best presentations are the rooms of Livingstone gallery and Rento Brattinga), and the Blueprint presentation shouldn’t even be mentioned.
Auke de Vries – Nouvelles Images
Auke de Vries – Nouvelles Images
Auke de Vries – Nouvelles Images
Auke de Vries – Nouvelles Images
Central to the hangar, which serves as the main hall, is Nouvelles Images gallery’s presentation of works by Auke de Vries, one of the grand old men of Dutch sculpture.
Lotte van Lieshout – Galerie Wit
Ruben Terlou – Galerie Fontana
Ruben Terlou – Galerie Fontana
Miranda Meijer – A Gallery Named Sue
Hernán Ardila Delgado – A Gallery Named Sue
Geert Baas – Galerie Ramakers
Eric de Vries – WTC Rotterdam Art Gallery
Further on in the hangar it was the usual stuff, including – of course – some real gems.
Kevin Bauer – Galerie Helder
Micha Patiniott – Heden
Summer Matthews – Aboriginal Art Gallery
Coen Vernooij – Gallery 0-68
Coen Vernooij – Gallery 0-68
Unknown artist – WTC The Hague Art Gallery
Marc Mulders – Galerie Dom’Arte
Still, i know it is a hell of a job organising an annual art fair, but it would be about time to outgrow a bit the sedate image of this town.
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
However, the best place to be is outside and behind the building: it’s Dirty Daisies, a co-operation of 15 artists from The Hague and Amsterdam.
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies is curated by Steef Crombach and there is some good stuff on show.
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
Dirty Daisies
The artists are: Candela Bado, Zeno Beikircher, Yair Callender, Daniel Dmyszewicz, Frederik & Jacob, Doris Hardeman, Josje Hattink, Bas Kaufmann, Koolen & Van de Lande, Tobias Lengkeek, Leslie Nagel, Jeannette Slütter, Marnix van Uum and Victor Yudaev.
Dirty Daisies
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Bertus Pieters
Joseph Semah
Auke de Vries
Auke de Vries
Nouvelles Images is celebrating its 55th birthday this year.
Marjan Teeuwen
Ton Kraayeveld
Ton Kraayeveld
It is the oldest gallery in the country so it is a venue with a history, which is more or less reflected by the present festive group show.
Auke de Vries
Hans van Hoek
Works by some thirty artists are on show of which you can see a few aspects here.
Hans van Hoek
Gijs Assmann
Gijs Assmann
No need to say that it is better to go and make your own choice.
Toon Teeken
Uwe Poth
Jan van der Pol
Anyway: happy birthday Nouvelles Images and many happy returns!
Omar Koubâa
Joost van den Toorn
Hamid El Kanbouhi
David Lindberg
Dave Meijer
Lucassen
Lucassen
Lucassen
JCJ Vanderheyden
Joris Geurts
JCJ Vanderheyden
Cor van Dijk
Piet Tuytel
Piet Tuytel
Robert Nicol
Helen Frik
Pieter Laurens Mol
Gabriëlle van de Laak
Jerry Keizer
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Bertus Pieters
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