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In his paintings,\u00a0Sam Hersbach<\/strong>\u00a0(1995) blends different realities ranging from selfies to quotes from art history to fantasy creatures that he brings together in a dynamic manner of painting. Sometimes he also integrates a mirrored metal plate on the canvas that deconstructs the illusion of the painting. His central work in the exhibition is a monumental 3-by-2-metre canvas which shows the 19th-century painter Ary Scheffer and his mother Cornelia Lamme. Their portraits are surrounded by a tangle of insects, plants and fish in shades of green and dark blue swarming around the two figures.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Marjolijn van der Meij<\/strong>\u00a0(1970) has recently been working on a series of small paintings on paper in which she highlights people and objects from media and mass culture, lending them an almost sacred aura.\u00a0A portrait of Virgil van Dijk seems to become an icon of a Byzantine saint, Gucci and Dior bags turn into unattainable, sacred objects.\u00a0She also references to earlier images of glamour such as Pierre Imans’ fashion dolls or kitschy horses flying through a cloudy sky.\u00a0As in her previous work in which she creases and distorts photos of jewellery, palaces or idyllic natural scenery, the images touch upon a collective memory in which high and low culture merge.<\/p>\n In\u00a0Ronald Versloot<\/strong>‘s (1964) recent paintings the motif of an opened window appears regularly. Since the Renaissance, the painting has been a metaphor for a view to the world that gives access to a painted reality in which the artist can unfold his or her vision. Through Versloot’s simple and slim window one can discern a landscape with a cloud or a somewhat less spatial image like a pattern of branches with a bird. One can ask whether the image refers to a tangible reality or rather to a thought or a memory. Looking outwards thus is reverted into an inward gaze.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”15px”] Andrea Freckmann, Sam Hersbach, Marjolijn van der Meij, Ronald Versloot, paintings from rural pastures, bold mental landscapes, glamour galore to windows with a view<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[113,108,109,980],"class_list":["post-28192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-exhibition","tag-andrea-freckmann-en","tag-marjolijn-van-der-meij-en","tag-ronald-versloot-en","tag-sam-hersbach","category-132","description-off"],"yoast_head":"\n<\/a>\t<\/figure>\n<\/article>\n\n\n
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