MARIETTE VAN ERP . MARTIN SCHUSTER .
2 FEBRUARY – 9 MARCH 2025
2 FEBRUARY – 9 MARCH 2025
SHIFTING TIMES
The gallery shows work by two artists where there is a longing for what has been, what is now and what is yet to come.
Shifting Times, a duo exhibition by Mariëtte van Erp and Martin Schuster.
Martin Schuster is inspired by memories and experiences from his childhood and youth. His paintings show parties, journeys and an escape from reality. Often, they are situated in a post-apocalyptic world, picturing the future, which turns out to be the present, or the other way around. A theme that appears consistently in his paintings is simultaneity: infinite pleasure, immeasurable possibilities of reason and intelligence, greed and senseless thrill coexist. An inner lightness that can be found in almost all his paintings contradicts thinking about a society whose capitalist structure is characterized by unfair hierarchies, consumption, strive for profit and growth. Schuster wonder how these symptoms affect our well-being, feelings and desires.
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Mariëtte van Erp paints and draws her surroundings, the landscape of Brabant, with a lot of energy and feeling. Mariëtte prefers to work in the middle of this landscape, which can consist of meadows, views or, for example, a small bridge above a river. Van Erp observes and paints or draws what occurs. According to Mariëtte van Erp, a landscape is always in motion and continuously changing. Van Erp’s work partly consists of figurative elements combined with expressive lines and shapes. It is an ode to her environment and a desire to be part of that environment.
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