Composition of Being
About this activity.
Composition of Being
Alexander Blu
Judith Knol
Veldman
August 3 to 29
Opening: August 3 at 17:00 by Alexander Blu and Judith Knol
Alexander Blu
Oil painter Alexander Blu taps into themes of 'violence' and 'ugliness'. His paintings make the unconscionable visible, bringing light and colour to what is otherwise shrouded in darkness. He makes the viewer look deep into the mirror of post-industrial society: a forlorn spiritual wasteland. The Dutch saying "Het bloed kruipt waar het niet gaan kan" is akin to his work.
Judith Knol
Judith Knol observes and transforms figurative, everyday images in her watercolour paintings. In the series she shows, she puts a greater emphasis on abstraction and looseness than before. The contradiction between transformation and stagnation plays a role within the work in various ways. The works are based on photographs from the past and present. A fascination for aerial landscapes is also developing, due to the constantly changing appearance of the sky.
Veldman
Veldman explores the theme of monomania: fixating on an idée fixe, trying to maintain the illusion that life is meaningful. From this motif, other themes emerge such as time, loss, absence, transience, duality and estrangement. In their work Veldman strives for a balance between contradictions, such as life and death, eternal and transient, within and without time, present and absent, natural and artificial.
Galerie Noord.
Galerie Noord is een expositieruimte in hartje Groningen. Vierwekelijks bieden we kunstenaars uit het Noorden de mogelijkheid recent werk te tonen, solo of in kleine groepen. Galerie Noord richt zich op autonoom, experimenteel en onderzoekend werk in vrijwel alle disciplines. We willen bezoekers verrassen door tentoonstellingen te bieden met een wisselend karakter.
Galerie Noord wordt volledig gerund door vrijwilligers. In 1997 werd de galerie opgericht als kunstenaarsinitiatief.
Location.
Galerie Noord
Nieuwstad 6
9711 JP Groningen
tel 050-3113322
www.galerienoord.nl