John Striegel, Bas van Delden and Lourens Stuurman

About this activity.

John Striegel (1985) - Love for music and wood

John has been making abstract spatial work made of wood since completing his art education in 1985.  For the last fifteen years he has mainly been making wooden musicians.  In these sculptures he often uses real, no longer playable musical instruments.  He saws them into pieces and composes them in a cubist manner with fruit tree wood and willow branches.  This creates a musician who plays his instrument with enthusiasm.  John must, as it were, hear the music when he looks at his creation, then the sculpture is good and finished.

He is mainly concerned with the design, the appearance and the aesthetic whole, and he also thinks it is important to work as circularly as possible.  He does not like to throw away, repairs objects if possible and/or removes the parts that are still usable.  The wood used comes from pruned or dead trees, and the instruments are usually in such poor condition that it is not worthwhile to repair them.  The love for music is not only expressed in making musicians;  Since his youth he has also enjoyed playing the drums and guitar.

 Bas van Delden - Water makes the soil visible and exposes it

The soil is the top layer of the earth's crust, for example the silt of the Dutch Waddenzee, loam, stone, rocks, clay, (quick)sand and salt flats.  Bas van Delden describes this as the trail left by water.  By the trail he means the cycle of the water.  Water transforms the soil and the soil records this transformation in different stages.  For him, painting is a way to investigate the analogy between nature and painting processes.  He sees his studio as a lab where he creates terrariums with paint.  He investigates the behavior of paint by creating processes with paint that have similarities with processes in nature.  For him, a painting is a micro ecosystem that he keeps alive during the making process.  He waters it, lets it flow, lets it grow and finally dries it up.

Lourens Stuurman - A longing for a harmonious world

Lourens has just graduated from Minerva Academy and now lives and works in Groningen.  His paintings reflect a desire for a harmonious world.  He is currently intrigued by architecture and the city.  By painting fragments of buildings, he leaves the hectic part of the city behind and the emphasis is on the tranquil architecture.  Almost as if time stands still.  He builds a new reality through the facades of his paintings.  He plays with the rhythm of windows and balconies, the repetitions create an effect that makes it impossible to look away.  In his work he looks for beauty from different perspectives.  He looks for beauty in non-obvious places.

Exhibition info:

•   Period From 13-12-2023 to 14-01-2024
•   Sunday 17-12-2023 at 4:00 PM Opening exhibition
•   Sunday  07-01-2024 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   Meet the exhibitors
•   Opening hours Wednesday to Sunday from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
•   Free entrance

Galerie Forma Aktua.

Al decennia lang functioneert Forma Aktua Pinakotheek als een platform voor al het opkomend talent in Noord-Nederland. Tegelijk volgt de galerie ook de ontwikkelingen in de wereld van de reeds meer gevestigde kunstenaars op de voet.

Location.

Forma Aktua
Nieuwstad 10
tel 050 3133342
www.forma-aktua.nl/