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Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries: CAN'T - 4 Oct 2008 to 25 Oct 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Remco Torenbosch, Sven-Ole Frahm
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CAN'T The exhibition CAN�T presents 5 abstract/conceptual positions within contemporary art. 5 young artists give their personal interpretation of the history, and possible future, of art. Can't is open, not empty, It has a kind of negativity that is pretty easy to break. It gives you the energy to do something, just because you can't or it's impossible: "You can't do that", "No I'm not." Can't is the opposite of what Science or Art should be. Its raises questions like: Can't do what? Or, the exhibited works were impossible? Banned from the Garden of Eden? I don't know. I hope so. While still at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, the work of Koen Delaere (1970 Bruges) stood out for its bold and energetic commitment to reinventing the entire discipline of painting. His principal themes are growth, excrescence and change. Delaere�s paintings and drawings come into being through a process of constant growth and change until reaching the magic moment of completion. Thomas Winkler (1972) is a painter, musician, poet, copywriter and co-director of publishing company Verlag Heckler und Koch. He lives and works in Berlin. Winkler paints grey paintings with 6 colour blocks. The colours and grounds are different in each painting, but the basic principle is the same. Remco Torenbosch (1982 Assen) graduated last spring from the Koninklijke Academie, Rotterdam. His work includes installations, sculptures and paintings. At this stage, his work can best be described as a renewed exploration of nineteen-sixties and nineteen-seventies Modernism. Torenbosch recycles subject matter favoured by artists such as Robert Ryman, Robert Morris and Carl Andre, investing them with a personal meaning. The piece �Onwards, Outwards, Echoes, Fundamental and Medicine�, consists of a series of 14 small concrete pillars lined up in a row. The concrete has been worked with graffiti � and graffiti remover; the arrangement of the pillars is a direct reference to the work of Andre. Scrawling the concrete with graffiti, then removing it, refers to the endless reiteration, and negation, of statements. Marius Lut (1976 The Hague) is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. His paintings and collages are reminiscent of the poetic paintings of Ellsworth Kelly. Simple minimal shapes in a limited palette dominate the work. His minimalism has a human scale. Traces of how the painting was created remain visible in the final work. Since his graduation in 2001 German artist Sven-Ole Frahm (1972 Bonn) has used needle and thread to create seams: the geometric lines which dominate his work. Patterns cut from painted linen are stitched together according to a personal geometry. It is a cut-and-paste technique that unites both the two-dimensional principles of painting with the three-dimensional principles of sculpture. |
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