MILKWOOD Johan Tahon – sculptures 14 November – 24 December 2010 Johan Tahon’s (1965) installation MILKWOOD at Galerie Maurits van de Laar, is comparable with the work presented by him at Watou 2009, the annual festival for visual arts and literature in West Flanders. Plaster ‘lianas’ are ramifying in the gallery space, from which ceramic…
Rens Krikhaar, Erik Pape paintings 3 October – 7 November 2010 Rens Krikhaar (1982) has his first exhibition in Galerie Maurits van de Laar. The images in his paintings look familiar at first sight, but when studied closely possess an indefinable, enigmatic tension. In the work The Park a man who is clasping a sheep…
Face to Face Frank Van den Broeck, Tobias Gerber, Diederik Gerlach Jos de l’Orme, Ronald Versloot, Justin Wijers drawings, woodcuts 29 August – 26 September 2010 In Face to Face attention is paid to portraits and faces in the widest sense of the word. Jos de l’ Orme (1962), who exclusively makes woodcuts, often uses…
Seekee Chung, Ed Pien light boxes, drawings, video 6 June – 22 August 2010 Seekee Chung (1979) makes work that is best described as 3-d windows. In a recessed rectangular framework she has placed cut-out fragments of photographs beside and behind one another. The window is closed off with frosted glass, rendering the representation diffuse…
Ronald Versloot paintings, drawings 25 April – 23 May 2010 Ronald Versloot’s (1964) trademark 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. The lino figures are actors, as it were, who are…
Dieter Mammel, Justin Wijers paintings, drawings 21 February – 14 March 2010 The paintings of Dieter Mammel (1965) from the series Privacy show direct, often intimate images of naked and vulnerable people expressing their emotions. Through his painting technique, with ink running fancifully on moistened canvas, the image gets blurred, creating a necessary distance to…
Tobias Gerber, Jos de l’Orme drawings, cut out drawings, woodcuts 17 January – 14 March 2010 Jos de l’Orme (1962) has applied himself to making woodcuts for many years. Frequently he does not show the print but the wooden plate itself, which is made black first. The representation is cut into it and consequently has…