Old Friends: Olga Wiese, Trudy Kramer, Wim Jonkman and Patricia Suer
About this activity.
Olga Wiese: 'Never a dull moment'
Olga Wiese (Middelburg, 1944) has been working as a visual artist since 1962. Besides being a painter, she is also a great draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator. Perhaps it would be better to say that she 'plays', given her penchant for 'painting from memory' of imaginative creatures in the universe imagined by Wiese herself.
Her oeuvre includes impressive series, such as My Family, Parallel Universe, Orinoco Days, Portraits of Buildings, People Next Door, Exotics and the Rijk der Kneuzen. In addition, over the years she has been able to brighten up various halls, waiting rooms, interiors and cafes, many of which are in the city center of Groningen.
The working method in figurative art consists of a number of movements: 'Towards nature' (still life landscape model), 'Photorealism' (photo as a tool), 'From memory' and 'Fantasy & new reality'. It is clear that Olga belongs to the latter category. The performance arises and changes gradually. Story, composition and brushwork must be constantly attuned to each other; moments of relaxation later force complicated repairs. Keeping all the balls in the air at the same time is the biggest challenge. 'Never a dull moment'.
Olga has seen a lot of the world, and her list of exhibitions is very long, including in the Gronings Museum, the Gasunie in Groningen, the Buitenplaats in Eelde, the Synagogue in Groningen, Museum Oldenburg, the Historical Museum in Amsterdam and the Drenthe museum. Her work has been added to the collections of several museums.
Trudy Kramer: 'The many faces of life'
Trudy Kramer (Buitenpost, 1959) is a versatile realistic artist. Her work consists of many facets, from figurative painting to book illustrations. Her visual work in watercolour, pencil and oil paint often includes portraits of animals and objects, but also of artists, writers and notable people within the cultural sector of the North. Kramer's love for the art and literature of the North is reflected in her visual creations that show a disarming humanity. For example, she has made portraits of Groningen writers, such as Jellema and Rutger Kopland, and artists such as Wout Muller and Matthijs Röling.
They were all members of the same artists' club (the Fuji Art Association). Together with her partner Ger Siks, she organized the biennial literary festival 'Schrijvers om de Noord' on Schiermonnikoog from 2001 to 2013. The literary museum in The Hague has ten of her writer's portraits. From 1977 to 1985, Kramer studied Free Painting at the Minerva Academy, where she was taught by Folkert Haanstra Jr. and Ger Siks. She has been teaching here since 1989.
Wim Jonkman: 'Embrace the riddle'
Wim Jonkman (Winterswijk, 1947) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He subsequently lived and worked in Paris for a long time, where he specialized in color lithography and was asked to set up an art studio in the Cité Internationale des Arts. Jonkman led this workshop, which gave space to talents and functioned as a breeding ground for creativity for artists from all parts of the world, from 1976 to 1979. After this eventful time, Jonkman settled in the Far North at the request of Minerva Academy. from The Netherlands. Here he worked as a lithography teacher. Wim Jonkman's lithographs are characterized by a narrative visual language with a focus on construction. A visual joust of pushing away and connecting within a multiple perspective, making his work open to multiple interpretations. His motto is: 'Embrace the riddle'. The viewer is expected to make his or her own choices from the discontinuous image layers in order to relate to what he/she is looking at. Lithograph printing is the technique par excellence for Wim to shape his graphic concepts. The countless expressive possibilities and the artistic adventure, coupled with the strict lithography laws, do the rest.
Patricia Suer: 'Very strong Poetic Fantasy'
Patricia is a versatile self-taught artist and has been making imaginative figures, statues and attributes from iron and bronze for 40 years. For many years she performed (solo) figurative visual theater performances in which the iron objects function as decor and as characters. Due to the growing interest in her sculptures, she started to exhibit the iron masks, animals and other objects that were often still 'in use'. After the corona pandemic, she started to focus on making statues and other objects that are cast in bronze and that were sometimes related to her theater performances. For example, she was featured in the Mobile Theater Project (2011) and in the Buitenplaats museum during the exhibition 'Het Rijk der Kneuzen' by Olga Wiese. Her work can also be seen in the Burcht in Wedde and Geldrop, where a very iron chandelier with birds hangs, and in Geldrop there are 5 iron sheep by her hand on a roundabout. In short, a versatile and productive artist in words and images.
Exhibition info:
· Period From 01-05 to 02-06-2024
· Opening exhibition 05-05-2024 at 4:00 PM:
Patricia Suer gives a short performance
Gizou van Unen: piano
· Opening hours Wed to Sun. 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/