“For me, painting is a kind of medieval monk’s work. The concentration on applying paint to canvas ultimately leads to the result I have in mind.”
ANNE VINCENT DIJKSTRA
Anne Vincent Dijkstra (1964), born in Dokkum, The Netherlands, currently lives and works in Bergen op Zoom. Anne Vincent finished his education at the Highschool for Arts Constantijn Huygens in Zwolle (1988) and has been exhibiting his work in solo and group exhibitions. His work has been shown for instance at Onomatopee (Eindhoven), Witte de With (Rotterdam) and PEP Gallery (New York, USA). Anne Vincent’s work is included in international private collections.
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Anne Vincent Dijkstra works with only one color of oil paint in his paintings, namely Prussian Blue. Mixed with Titanium White, it creates a whole range of tones, from deep dark blue to bright white. By limiting the use of color, the focus is on form and composition. Painting both light areas and shadows reinforces this.
His work arises from a fascination with the idea of fragmentation. In the ruin paintings this is the splintering of a building into a pile of rubble; in recent pixel paintings it is the construction of the image from separate fragments (squares). It is never entirely clear what exactly we are looking at. The individual squares form an image that only becomes visible from a certain distance. Visible, but rarely fully understandable. The paintings indirectly refer to the existential threats facing humanity. In the series Ruins, man has already disappeared from the picture. In the pixel works he seems to blend in with the environment, which slowly takes him over.
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Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Unicolor 2023 . Disturbed 2022 . Appèl Galeries 2020 . The blue room . Hitchcock 2018 . KunstRAI 2017 . Into the blue 2017 . This Art Fair 2016 . Woest 2015 .
