GAO BROTHERS
Gao Brothers, bronze, 2009 Gao Zhen en Gao Qiang represent a generation that is no longer willing to follow the Mao cult. They are active as resistance fighters in the art, fighting for their freedom of speech. With their knowledge of the Western culture and history, they bring, along with other dissidents, innovation in the […]
Nicolas DE STAËL
NICOLAS DE STAEL, oil on canvas, 1943 With a strong sense of drama, Nicolas de Staël tries to find an impossible compromise between figurative and new abstract art. This piece dates from 1943 and was made in a period during which the artist destroyed the larger part of his work. The conflicting brushstrokes are filled […]
John DOE
JOHN DOE, oil on canvas, 2017 John Doe reflects our zeitgeist in which temporality and transience have become the standard rather than the exception. Repetitive but varying and clearly universal in language, he criticizes the current art market. From a distance the artist analyses what he sees. He exposes the value estimate that deviates from […]
John DE ANDREA
John De Andrea, painted polyester, 1984 ‘Nothing reveals more about a person than his naked body’, the artist claims. John De Andrea confronts the viewer with the hyper-realistic experience of their own body. With a three-dimensional representation – made with a cast of the reality – a degree of intimacy is achieved, unmatched by any […]
Paul KLEE
Paul Klee, aquarel, 1927 This Swiss artist was autodidact and investigated the abstraction of art using techniques and materials. Driven by childlike spontaneity and fantasy, Paul Klee abstracted reality into mere geometric shapes. With attention for classical arts and other cultures, he became the ironic reconciler of contradictions within human-ordered nature and the inevitable ‘system […]
Pol BURY
Pol Bury, mixed media, 1982 Shapes move very slowly and in anonymous silence. The simplicity behind this slow process commands meditation. Bury’s geometric shapes move in the same mysterious manner as the unperceivable movements of our planetary system. ‘Perspective Avec Cylinders’ demonstrates the extremely slow movements of small columns. Bury’s kinetic art forces the observer […]
Jin WANG
Wang Jin, transparant polyester, fishing thread, 2006 The oeuvre of this Chinese artist consists of performances, installations, sculptures and paintings. The message in the work of Wang Jin draws the attention to the clash between capitalism and tradition manifesting itself in his country. He deprives Chinese symbols of their original value and transforms them into […]
Dennis OPPENHEIM
Dennis Oppenheim, still from 8mm film video tape, 1970 The ‘earth art’-projects of Dennis Oppenheim show the relation between humans and nature. He investigates the indisputable dominant traces of man and also uses his own body for this. In his ‘body art’, Oppenheim proves himself to be a part of the universe and demonstrates, among […]
Valery KOSHLYAKOV
Valery Koshlyakov, collage and mixed media on canvas, 1996 With his subjects, that are often a milestone from the history of art and architecture, Koshlyakov reconstructs the transience of art traditions, culture and politics. The use of old cardboard, torn imprints and tempera are related to techniques and materials used by previous avant-gardists. The often […]
Bram BOGART
Bram Bogart, matter painting, 1959 We may consider the Dutchman Bram Bogart as a pivotal figure in matter painting. His informal work involves a wonderful technique, with which he has developed his oeuvre in a uniquely personal way. At the end of the 1950s, the artist was still living in Paris, where he pushed his […]