Carmen Schilstra in Atelier Henk Kraayenzank
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Carmen Schilstra in Atelier Henk Kraayenzank
In recent years, Henk Kraayenzank has invited countless fellow artists for a duo exhibition in his studio. This time Carmen Schilstra is a guest.
Carmen Schilstra is a multi-talent: in the 1970s she belonged to the first group of visual arts students at the then newly established Ubbo Emmius Institute, but soon moved on to music. After that training, screenwriting courses followed and 10 years of classical singing lessons. She was a singer in countless bands and music productions, acted in stage performances, film and musicals, wrote screenplays, songs, children's books and short stories, and presented TV programs. Surprisingly enough, Schilstra and Kraayenzank, who themselves worked for more than 30 years as set and lighting designers, only worked on the same production once: De Klokkenluider van de Martinitoren ('The Hunchback of the Martinitoren'), a music theater spectacle in a circus tent that traveled through the city of Groningen.
Coincidentally, Carmen Schilstra can now be seen again in a circus tent. She plays in 'Karnivoale', a cheerful music spectacle based on the traveling circuses in America a century ago. From June 23 at various places on the Hogeland.
In 1997 the visual arts reappeared and in recent years her work has been shown at home and abroad. She works with acrylic paint on canvas, uses acrylic ink, chalk and paper. There is sanding and scratching, pasting and working layer upon layer, so that a history of worlds is created.
Recurring themes in these multi-layered canvases are of a mythological nature: fairy tales, natural religions and the grail motif.
The exhibition can be seen from 25 June to 20 August in Atelier Henk Kraayenzank, Visserstraat 40. Open every Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 to 17:30 and by appointment: tel 050-3135798
Atelier Kraayenzank.
Atelier Kraayenzank is het atelier van kunstenaar Henk Kraayenzank aan de Visserstraat in Groningen. Regelmatig ontvangt Kraayenzank gasten in de serie duotentoonstellingen.
Location.
Atelier Henk Kraayenzank
Visserstraat 40
9712CW Groningen
tel 050 313 5798
www.henkkraayenzank.com/