Dan Zhu
Dan Zhu (1985) uses a refined style to evoke a magical world in which things happen simultaneously, as if in a dream.
Elsbeth Ciesluk
Language plays an important role in the work of Elsbeth Ciesluk (1986), the texts often come from dreams, both direct and mysterious they express wonder, but also the struggle with the reality of everyday life.
Dirk Zoete
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dieter Mammel IntroductionBiographyIntroduction Dieter Mammel (1965) over the years developed a special technique, he paints with ink on raw canvas which is made wet which makes the colour run out and branche whimsically. The images he paints are based on photographic examples. First, he used pictures from his own family album in the series Family…