“In my paintings I explore the boundaries between abstraction and figuration, the visible and invisible world.”
AAGJE LINSSEN
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Aagje Linssen’s paintings are a continuation of the abstract expressionism that emerged in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. Her work refers to artists such as Cy Twombly, who developed a personal form of calligraphic painting as a kind of cryptologist. The work of Aagje Linssen is related to such an intention, but Aagje Linssen has developed a personal painting idiom.
With Aagje Linssen you first look at paint and then at its reflection on your retina, at the mobility of space in the refracted light in the air and how it naturally becomes visible as virtually formless color and matter. When she takes a reflection on a water surface as a starting point for a painting, it is not an illusionistic representation of a precise observation, but an independent, painterly expression of the atmospheric experience she has undergone. She does not paint anything in nature, she does not even paint from nature, but of course makes a painting. – text by Alex de Vries
Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Solo 2023 . Art The Hague 2024 .