The Landscape is the most Important Diederik Gerlach – paintings, works on paper, collages, video 24 November through 22 December 2013 The landscape is the harmless terrain to be explored by the traveller, the playground for nightmares or the demarcated realm of the dictator. The landscape offers the opportunity to optimally suggest space on a…
Bad Times – New Religion Marie Civikov, Kim Hospers, Marjolijn van der Meij, Justin Wijers paintings, drawings 19 october t/m 17 november 2013 In times of trouble and crisis man traditionally seeks comfort and guidance in religion. Presently ever more desperate people are driven into the arms of God. Finding guidelines to cope with the…
Pairings – Paarungen: Dieter Mammel paintings, drawings Ronald Versloot paintings 1 – 29 September 2013 In his parental home Dieter Mammel (1965) recently discovered a collection of childhood drawings in which he had carefully depicted his daily environment: woods, animals and people. Confronted with the perception from his childhood he decided to couple these…
GREEN Elsbeth Ciesluk, Heidi Linck, Jim Holyoak/Matt Shane, Jos de l’Orme Installation, video, drawings, woodcuts 12 – 28 July 2013 after that by appointment through 23 August In cooperation with GEMAK Galerie Maurits van de Laar organizes the exhibition GREEN GEMAK which focusses on how man attempts to control and exploit nature. At GEMAK Balta,…
Fly Your Colours Rens Krikhaar paintings, drawings 2 June– 7 July 2013 Rens Krikhaar (b. 1982) is highly interested in the tradition of both western and Asian art. About a year ago he took to the subject of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century seascapes. This also lead him to spend time studying maritime history bringing famous admirals…
Drawing Cabinet drawings 20 April – 19 May 2013 When it comes to the art of drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar has a reputation to uphold. When it comes to the art of drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar has a reputation to uphold. In the Drawing Cabinet the draftsmen and draftswomen that are…
Human Nature Andrea Freckmann, Olphaert den Otter Urs Pfannenmüller, Ed Pien cut out drawings, paintings 17 March – 14 April 2013 At the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag March 15th the manifestation Yes Naturally starts, in which artists and designers investigate the changing relationships between man and nature. Zeger Reyers (1966) will show a new work with…
Robine Clignett, Nour-Eddine Jarram, Erik Pape works on paper, drawings, watercolours 17 February – 10 March 2013 In her work on paper Robine Clignett (1948) uses natural shapes that are reduced to such an extent that they start functioning on an abstract level. A sloping, dark landscape, for instance, contrasts with a bright sky to…
Martin Fenne, Stan Klamer textile reliefs, drawings 6 January – 3 February 2013 Martin Fenne’s (1964) work is reminiscent of 17th-century paintings in which the objects and costumes are so convincingly reproduced that it appears as if the fabrics are tangible if you were to touch them. However, Martin Fenne does not paint, but works…