WHEN TOMORROW ENDS

When Tomorrow Ends, a group exhibition by Eliot Allsop, Jacques van Erven and Hanneke Giezen.

Eliot Allsop is inspired by the cosmos in his latest drawings. Intense images of the infinite, focusing on minute individual marks in the context of vastness. A space to explore the blackness of graphite, an allotrope of carbon. Born within a star and infinitely old. Mirror of our inner space, itself as vast and unknowable as the cosmos, according to Eliot Allsop.

Repeat, reduce and recycle are starting points in Hanneke Giezen’s most recent work. According to Giezen, our consumer society is a wonderful treasure chest to mine from. Nonsensical packaging and boring toys are fantastic materials for Giezen to make moulds from and compose her work in porcelain. Porcelain radiates wealth, beauty and power, which is a wonderful contrast to the trinkets that are made for us by companies. Composed, a colorful paradox of beauty and discomfort to love.

Jacques van Erven (1952), lives and works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Jacques graduated in 1978 from the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Van Erven and the gallery have been working together for years and Jacques has exhibited at the gallery several times and during KunstRAI in Amsterdam. While painting Jacques van Erven searches for what is special about apparently insignificant places in the forest. You are not invited to enter a ‘paradise’, no expansive landscapes with a horizon. Nature goes its own way, despite human intervention. His paintings almost seem like anatomical lessons. They realistically expose the engine of plant life, especially trees, underground. The world of root systems, which is supposed to be hidden from the human eye. In some cases, you can see what happened before. Forces of nature have done their work. Other times, life above ground continues as usual, and roots, stumps and remains of trees are covered by mosses that have survived everything for millions of years. They seem to have a soothing, caressing effect on the confrontational sight.