Turn Back Time; Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague

Olphaert den Otter

Notoriously, composer Karlheinz Stockhausen said about the 9/11 Attacks: Well, what happened there is, of course (….) the biggest work of art there has ever been.

Marjolijn van der Meij

By that time – it was a few days after the traumatising acts of terror – this caused controversy.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

On the other hand the English are their cruel king Henry VIII still grateful for turning their gothic abbeys into romantic ruins.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

Destruction can be horrible and may be cruel, but undeniably it also produces visions of transformation, and that has its own aesthetics.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

Works by four artists who occupy themselves in one way or another with change and the passing of time are presently on show at Maurits van de Laar Gallery.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

Olphaert den Otter (1955) shows places of destruction in his series World Stress Paintings.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

The delicateness and smallness of his tempera paintings form a stark contrast to the manmade catastrophes he actually shows.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

Marjolijn van der Meij (1970) deforms her works by crumpling them and reworking them.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

Again, the cruelty of the act becomes a base for an extremely delicate way of sculpture that catches light and dark and gives new content to what is actually shown.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

Tobias Lengkeek (1991) is looking for the aesthetics of what you may call slow destruction, the decay you may meet with at any moment of the day in any place around you.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

These moments and places and the transition they represent are the base for his very painterly paintings.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

The slow but momentous visions of destruction inspire his aesthetics, even to the point where you can see the destruction in the paintings themselves.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

Martin Gabriel (1991) is probably the least destructive in his works.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

He combines painting, collage and the language of computer games in his works.

Tobias Lengkeek

Martin Gabriel

He digitises and de-digitises, dragging the venerable art of painting into the digital maelstrom of the contemporary and redefining real and digital time and space.

Olphaert den Otter

Marjolijn van der Meij

All four artists are trying to find a way of living with sometimes horrific, sometimes sneaking changes in our lives and to redefine aesthetics in the process.

Tobias Lengkeek

It makes for an interesting and fine show in which works by two ‘older’ artists are confronted with those of a younger generation.

Martin Gabriel

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Content of all pictures courtesy to the artists and Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag

 

Bertus Pieters

Track and Trace II; Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague

Urs Pfannenmüller

Erik Pape

Andrea Freckmann

Maurits van de Laar’s gallery has its 25th anniversary.

Marcel van Eeden

Martin Fenne

Heidi Linck

Robine Clignett

At the moment it shows its second edition of its jubilee exhibition and it is a real full house.

Elsbeth Ciesluk

Ingrid van der Hoeven

Ronald Versloot

Robbie Cornelissen

Herewith i give you a few examples of the more than 70 works of art by more than 30 artists presently on show in the gallery.

Stan Klamer

Elmar Trenkwalder

Nour Eddine Jarram

Jan Brokof

The finissage will be on Sunday.

Sebastiaan Schlicher

Marjolein van der Meij

Martin Assig

Diederik Gerlach

Of course i wish Maurits and his artists many fruitful years to come!

Tobias Gerber

Nare Eloyan

Zeger Reyers

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Content of all pictures courtesy to the artists and Galerie Maurits van de Laar

Bertus Pieters

Portraits from the Heden collection; Heden, The Hague

Heden shows portraits by different artists from its collection during the summer. It is an extremely varied collection consisting of photo’s, drawings, paintings, sculpture etc.

Nico Jesse, Giorgio de Chirico, 1957 (detail)

If your favourite painter is Giorgio de Chirico or

Robert Collette, Jan Mulder, 1969 (detail)

your favourite soccer player is Jan Mulder, here is your chance as they are for rent or sale.

Martine Stig, Glorie 1 (detail)

Martine Stig, Glorie 2 (detail)

Marjolijn van der Meij, Arthur Walker

Cas Oorthuys, Self portrait

Willy Jolly, Philip Akkerman (detail)

There is this brooding, romantic portrait of painter Philip Akkerman, who is also represented with some portraits by himself.

Stefanie Scholte, Mr Jim (detail)

Stefanie Scholte, Taro

Rarely seen but wonderful portraits by Stefanie Scholte are on show as are

Philip Akkerman, Three self portraits

Gert Germeraad, Abhorrance

Mik & Boonstra, No title (detail)

Gerard Fieret, Rebecca (detail)

some works by Gerard Fieret who has a posthumous international breakthrough these days.

Koos Breukel, Gerard Fieret (detail from a diptych)

Lancelot Samson, Terence

Douglas Perez Castro, Enrique J (detail)

Hinke Schreuders, Works on paper 45

Arie Vermeer, No colour TV (detail)

Tanja Smit, Man from Dickens

Rarely seen Tanja Smit is on show along with

Marlene Dumas, Johan Cruyff (detail of diptych)

omnipresent Marlene Dumas, amongst others.

Paul van Dongen, Pietà (detail)

Kristina Schuldt, Beim Friseur (At the Barber’s, detail)

Bas Meerman, Marnix

A good variety of 40 works by 31 artists are on show, so it is well worth popping in at Heden these summer days.

Aafke Bennema, No title

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Contents of the pictures courtesy to the artists and Heden

 

Bertus Pieters

Drawing Front (and back); Quartair, The Hague

Astrid Nobel, 7. 29/32

Astrid Nobel, 7

I’m afraid you are too late to visit the show Drawing Front (and back) at Quartair, which is a pity as it was quite an interesting one. Twenty-five artists gave a small personal artistic biography in drawings, ideally showing a children’s drawing, one from their teens and some more from a later age.

Sarah Pape García, 7

Sarah Pape García, 22

The results were, apart from endearing, sometimes stunning. Although the show is over I thought it was interesting enough to show some pictures for the record.

Femke Bakker, 9

Femke Bakker, 27

Taking presentable pictures of everything was not possible and I’m sorry to say I have no footage of the works by Justin Bennett and Rens Krikhaar because of much too irritating reflections in the glass (Sorry gentlemen, but it was a pleasure seeing them anyway!). The numbers behind the names under the pictures refer to the age of the artists at the moment of drawing.

Babette Wagenvoort

Babette Wagenvoort, 43

Babette Wagenvoort, 33

Babette Wagenvoort, 3

Babette Wagenvoort, 15

Anne Forest, 32

Anne Forest, 8

Anne Forest, 22

Paul van der Eerden, 38

Paul van der Eerden, 61

Johan Gustavsson, 37

Johan Gustavsson, 30

Wieske Wester, 30

Erik Jan Ligtvoet, 17

Erik Jan Ligtvoet

Cybil Scott, 5

Cybil Scott, 26

Melissa Cruz García, 8

Melissa Cruz García, 26

Melissa Cruz García, 36

Michael Karr, 12

Michael Karr, 30

Michael Karr, 20

Tanja Smit, 48

Tanja Smit, 30

Tanja Smit

Johan van Oord, 34

Johan van Oord, 8

Wieteke Heldens

Wieteke Heldens, 3

Channa Boon, 48

Channa Boon, 28

Lieke Peeters, 20

Lieke Peeters, 10

Jorn van Leeuwen, 10

Thom Vink, 42

Marjolijn van der Meij, 15

Marjolijn van der Meij, 45

Ronald Cornelissen, 28

Nina Roos, 5

Nina Roos, 28

Stefanie Scholte, 7

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Bertus Pieters

All Art Is Political. Exit Gemak, The Hague

René Vullings

 

POTL, Hans Demoed & Geert de Rooij

 

POTL, Hans Demoed & Geert de Rooij

 

Dana LaMonda

 

Jean van Wijk

On Friday December 4th Gemak/Vrije Academie closed its doors as a result of rigorous cuts by the municipality of The Hague in financing the institution. Herewith a good and spacious platform to show present day art in dialogue with the neighbourhood, the city town and indeed the rest of the world, is closed down. On the last day of its existence Gemak organized amongst others a one day exhibition in which more than forty artists took part. It was a great and heart warming show for the closing institution and for the many people who attended. The next day I visited Gemak to make some pictures of the day after for this posting. For a full article in Dutch about the closure of Gemak i refer you to Villa La Repubblica (click here). In the mean time, enjoy the pictures.

Yvo van der Vat

 

Ehsan Behmanesh & Arefeh Riahi

 

Petra van der Schoot

 

Claudie de Cleen

 

Willem Speekenbrink

 

Zeger Reyers

Joncquil

 

Pim Voorneman

 

André Kruysen

Wouter Willebrands

 

Pendar Nabipour

 

Sylvain Mazas

Laura van Eeden

 

Marjolijn van der Meij

 

Marjolijn van der Meij

 

Zeger Reyers

Paul Bruininckx

 

Nicole Donkers

 

Nicole Donkers

 

Philip Schuette

Harold de Bree

 

Ingrid Mol

Mark de Weijer

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Bertus Pieters