🔫️ STREKEN (STROKES/PRANKS) 🖌️
🗓️ 08 February 2025 — 08 March 2025📍️ Galerie Larik, Utrecht
The exhibition ‘Streken’ brings together the artists Vincent de Boer and Sander van Noort. While De Boer focuses on literal and refined brushstrokes, Van Noort’s work is dominated by figures. Moreover, their work reflects influences from various regions of the world.
Although their artistic expressions vary, the artists share a similar process. They both draw inspiration from re-used materials, which they enthusiastically breathe new life into. Van Noort makes covers for mysterious books, as collages in which collected objects enter into relationships with elements from popular culture. Recognizable images take on a completely different meaning in a new composition. De Boer works with wooden planks in various shapes and sizes, rescued from the waste bin in the studio building. He paints these planks and then experiments with both the compositions and the meanings that arise from them.
In addition, both artists invite the viewer to playfully interact with their work. Van Noort expresses this in his visual language, in which he invites us to lose ourselves in our own fantasy world. While De Boer plays with flexibility: his works can be rearranged again and again, which means that the composition changes constantly.
Van Noort interweaves playful, childlike elements with the hypocrisy of adult life. His work is full of contradictions and metaphors, which are based on observations from everyday life that often conceal some social criticism. Images are filtered through an accumulation of transparent layers, which questions our view of reality.
Brushstrokes and calligraphy form the basis of Vincent de Boer's work. With these elements he investigates fundamental questions about the nature of art: When is a work of art finished? How far do the boundaries of the work of art extend? And to what extent does the size determine the value and legitimacy of a work of art? With precision and control he evokes nuances that make these concepts tangible.
📷: Robin Meyer Artdoc
Although their artistic expressions vary, the artists share a similar process. They both draw inspiration from re-used materials, which they enthusiastically breathe new life into. Van Noort makes covers for mysterious books, as collages in which collected objects enter into relationships with elements from popular culture. Recognizable images take on a completely different meaning in a new composition. De Boer works with wooden planks in various shapes and sizes, rescued from the waste bin in the studio building. He paints these planks and then experiments with both the compositions and the meanings that arise from them.
In addition, both artists invite the viewer to playfully interact with their work. Van Noort expresses this in his visual language, in which he invites us to lose ourselves in our own fantasy world. While De Boer plays with flexibility: his works can be rearranged again and again, which means that the composition changes constantly.
Van Noort interweaves playful, childlike elements with the hypocrisy of adult life. His work is full of contradictions and metaphors, which are based on observations from everyday life that often conceal some social criticism. Images are filtered through an accumulation of transparent layers, which questions our view of reality.
Brushstrokes and calligraphy form the basis of Vincent de Boer's work. With these elements he investigates fundamental questions about the nature of art: When is a work of art finished? How far do the boundaries of the work of art extend? And to what extent does the size determine the value and legitimacy of a work of art? With precision and control he evokes nuances that make these concepts tangible.
📷: Robin Meyer Artdoc
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