Inez Smit, Marena Seeling, Lines, form, spaces and other; Galerie Helder, The Hague

Inez Smit

Galerie Helder shows paintings by two artists, Inez Smit (1967) and Marena Seeling (1953), who make abstract work.

Inez Smit

Inez Smit

Inez Smit

While works of both artists go very well together, the show is also a dialogue of differences.

Inez Smit

Marena Seeling

Marena Seeling

Seeling’s work derives from vast polder landscapes, abstracted until only its light and space remain, even in the smallest works.

Marena Seeling

Marena Seeling

Marena Seeling

In Smit’s works space seems to be rediscovered in non-objective compositions.

Inez Smit

Inez Smit

It is a modest exhibition, but it has a lot of perspectives to offer.

Inez Smit

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Bertus Pieters

Spring of Drawing; Helder, The Hague

Stephan van den Burg

Stephan van den Burg

Marena Seeling

At first sight Helder’s present show may look unassuming, but to an extent it is a kind of statement about the diversity and combination of drawings it wants to present.

Marena Seeling

Romy Muijrers

Romy Muijrers

They range from the works purely drawn from the use of basic graphic techniques, to lyrical or socio-politically motivated drawings.

Romy Muijrers

Sigrid van Woudenberg

Harry Markusse

Helder has a special interest in artists who combine thinking and making, technique and lyricism and not in the kind of expressionism that seems to come right from the gut.

Harry Markusse

Maryanto

Niels Janssen

As such Spring of Drawing shows a great diversity of drawings that combine very well.

Niels Janssen

Niels Janssen

Guy Vording

Go and take a look if you don’t believe it (and if you do…).

Guy Vording

Sigrid van Woudenberg

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Bertus Pieters

Wild is the Wind, Galerie Helder, The Hague

Helder gallery has joined works by three artists in its present show in a happy combination.

Kevin Bauer shows sculptures that almost look like three-dimensional paintings. They

rhyme well with Marena Seeling’s paintings and watercolours, most of them based on modern Dutch countryside landscape.

Stephan van den Burg shows his small drawings which are made as meticulously as tapestry, amongst them some new more colourful works.

It is best to take a look for yourself as there is a lot to be seen.

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Bertus Pieters