Dirk Zoete IntroductionBiographyIntroduction In his drawings, Dirk Zoete (1969) shows theatrical stages with buildings or ships on them. These constructions contain several floors upon which houses, objects and people have been placed, that seem to be part of a system. The human figures are depicted in a rudimentary manner, like dolls or large scarecrows, looking…
Ronald Versloot IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Ronald Versloot’s (1964) hallmark is the use of linoprint in paintings. In just a few apt strokes he delineates a landscape or an interior, in which he prints human figures by means of a linocut. With this he investigates the age old problem problem in painting, how to integrate the human figure…
Elmar Trenkwalder IntroductionBiographyIntroduction The Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder (1959) evokes a baroque world in his drawings, in which a peculiar fusion of eroticism and architecture is taking place. In his richly decorated architectonic spaces columns have phallic forms, ornaments turn out to be composed of entwined human figures. The form language and exuberance are closely…
Sebastiaan Schlicher IntroductionBiographyIntroduction In Sebastian Schlicher’s (1975) drawings ecstatic stage performers, cult members, religious types, occultists, survivalists or politicians appear who are in a state of melancholia, rage or fear. They have put themselves into a pathetic battle mode, struggling to get through life, trying to find heroic, symbolic ways to overcome their own mortality…
Zeger Reyers IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Zeger Reyers (1966) is known for his installations in which he confronts the artificial, man-made world with nature. For instance, he made fungi grow from furniture and sank chairs down into the river Oosterschelde until they were overgrown with mussels. In the work Drum Kit (2004) he coupled up a hundred empty…
Ed Pien IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Taiwanese Canadian artist Ed Pien (1958) expresses deep human fears in his work. Grotesque creatures are cropping up in his drawings; demons, spirits and ghosts. Thus he continues an age-old tradition in Western and Asian art, the representation of hell. During a journey through China he discovered the cut-out drawing, especially used…
Erik Pape IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Ever since the start of his long career, Erik Pape (1942) has been fascinated by the city of Paris. His first subjects were the Canal St. Martin and the round basins in the Tuileries gardens, rendered in an atmospheric, almost abstract manner. After this he started to paint bold images of Notre…
Dieter Mammel IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Dieter Mammel (1965) uses a special technique in his paintings. He paints with ink on raw canvas which is made wet, so that the colour runs out and branches whimsically. One can see clearly that the images have been painted from photographic examples. First, he used pictures from his own family album,…
Stan Klamer IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Stan Klamer (1951) conceives drawing and painting as a form of cartography. By abstracting reality into a map, space is created for reflecting ideas and thoughts. Often Stan Klamer represents islands. The island forms a closed world, offering space for experiments and for the development of ideas because of its isolated position.…
Nour-Eddine Jarram IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Nour–Eddine Jarram (1956) got known in the 90’s through his paintings in which he mixed elements from the paintings of Dutch old masters with motives from islamic culture. He replaced the heads of the physicians from Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson with tulips, for example. After this he developed his own landscapes in which…
