My drawing is still for sale on the site of Anonyme Zeichner*innen. It is to be found in the Archive and can be bought on line for € 250,-

Notes on an artist and his world
My drawing is still for sale on the site of Anonyme Zeichner*innen. It is to be found in the Archive and can be bought on line for € 250,-
Galerie Sophie in Den Haag will intensify its programme in the coming year. As a start it will open a group-exhibition under the name You’re so welcome! with artists the gallery worked with before. To broaden their programme they asked participating artists to invite one artist they liked to present work in the same exhibition. The opening will take place during Hoogtij, the two monthly open night of art-spaces in Den Haag.
I was asked to participate after several shows I took part in. I will show two portraits of my Malieveld invites series in oilpaint on stone paper.
This exhibition changed venue to the Kunsthaus in Erfurt after a succesful edition in Berlin last fall. My Shard – , drawing is still in it untill March 28 and it is still for sale for € 250,- also on-line. After Erfurt the exhibition will move to Hamburg where it will be shown from May 16th untill June 5 in in Hypercultural Passengers.
The yearly benefit auction for De Aanschouw, Rotterdams smallest art gallery, was held March 2 in studio building Het Wilde Weten in Rotterdam. I offered one of my shard-drawings to be sold, archeology of my past. A reasonable price was offered after a long rally in which the auctioneer, Rotterdam Artist Inge Aanstoot, did her very best to raise the biddings. The benefit was a succes: the art that was offered and sales were very satisfying.
You can find an account of the auction here!
November 15, 2024 – January 12, 2025 – Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (D)
Tijdens de tweejaarlijkse tentoonstelling Anonyme Zeichnungen 2024 hangt ook werk van mij tussen de duizend andere tekeningen. Het betreft een grote expositie met tekeningen van een beperkte grootte waarvoor een call uitging. In Kunstraum Kreuzberg hangen in een aantal zalen van verschillende kleur grote of kleinere groepen van tekeningen. Het geheel oogt wat overdonderend. Ik kon niet naar de opening, maar kreeg installatiefoto’s van de organisatie.
I presented four portraits from my series New Encounters in the EX-MÊKH exhibition ¿De Donde?. They represent people I notice on weekly walks to the Malieveld in Den Haag. I write a description in my telephone and mail it home. Then, in my studio, I paint the portraits in oilpaint on stone paper. I also write words from the texts in the painting. It is a hommage to Francisco Goya whose drawings and comments I admire greatly.
In the Petit Palace Hotel I presented two portraits on a background of text, written on the wall with one wollen thread and two portraits without backgrounds. Also, above the bed in the room I wrote a text with one red woolen thread: Her spine moved like a snake . The wall was almost black there with blue in it which contrasted beautifully with the red of the text. Maarten Schepers placed sculpture on the bed underneath which in one blink could have been paws of animals, maybe pre-historic, which would have suggested fossiles. On the other hand the work could also have been seen as flowers on a grave or a monument. This would have turned the bed into a place of memory. The contrast with my text, which to me has an erotic connotation, placed above the bed as it was, opened a lot of associations to me. It enables me to eleborate on this way of working.
EX-MÊKH is preparing for the Hybrid Art Fair and experimenting with their materials. Here some try-outs by Kees Koomen who is looking for a interesting way to present his series of New Encounters The work is intended as an homage to the sketches Goya made in the streets of Madrid and elsewhere. Those drawings and etchings were my favourite artworks in art-school:
Friday September 29 was the day RUW #6 was presented to the public. It happened during Hoogtij, the two-monthly open platforms evening in Den Haag. For the occasion HOK gallery was available and the editor decided that a large drawing was to be made by all participants in this edition of RUW. This drawing was going to be auctioned on sunday.
The presentation was a succes, many visitors came by to see the new RUW Magazine and not many magazines were left in the end. You can find an account of the opening here!
Then sunday the auction of the large drawing took place. It did not draw a lot of attention but those who came were a motivated public. After some useless attempts of the auctioneer Geert Schriever to sell the drawing as a whole details of the drawing were offered for which two ladies showed the formats with wooden angles. This worked better and the afternoon ended with a positive amount of money on the account and everybody enjoying a glass of wine.
De Aanschouw is the smallest gallery in The Netherlands. Until now it’s location is in the Witte de With straat in Rotterdam, better known for its terraces and art centres Melly and TENT. The gallery is a showcase across from where the NRC was once produced. Once the newspaper was ready for print the first newspaper to come out was shown in the showcase across the street, next to café De Schouw. The bar was famous for its clientèle amongst which artists, writers and editors of NRC. When De Aanschouw started it showed an art piece once a week. The initiators invited curators to present weekly art pieces. Daan den Houter, famous Rotterdam artist, started his project Overschilderschilderij here also. After painting a self-portrait he invited painters he knew to paint a new painting over it. Each new painter covered the preceding painting. This way the painting became a brick-like object , it has hundred forty-nine paintings covering it now. The new exhibitions of paintings and of the Overschilderschilderij always open at de wissel (the change), on Thursday night at 21.00 h.
Volunteers took care of the exhibitions and organisation of it and to get some working-capital they thought of an annual auction at the start of the season. This took place on the street in the Witte de Withstraat at the opening of the cultural season. Lately TENT invites De Aanschouw to do it in their space. Because of Corona the auction has been postponed for three years. This time it took place at the end of the season though, coinciding with the end of De Aanschouw at café De Schouw. The gallery-showcase will move to Café Ari at de Nieuwe Binnenweg in Rotterdam.
Because I had the honour to first show a painting in De Aanschouw and to paint a painting on the Overschilderschilderij . Later the organisation invited me to participate in the auction, which I did with pleasure.