“Always wanting to say the same thing over and over again with fewer words”.
JAN VAN DEN BERG
Jan van den Berg (1953), born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, currently lives and works in Eindhoven. Van den Berg graduated from the Academy of the Arts in Tilburg (1974) and the Academy of Fine Arts in Breda (1977). Jan van den Berg has been exhibiting his work in The Netherlands, Japan, Iceland and Belgium. Among these occasions are Museum Belvédère (Heerenveen), Metropolitan Museum (Tokyo, Japan) and Art Rotterdam. His work is part of public collections such as Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Rabobank (Utrecht) and in various international private collections.
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Jan van den Berg’s work is about the act of painting, how it transforms into images, the relationship between shape and size, between size and color, and between the size of the work in relation to the human scale. His work is about space, an image of space or an illusion of space. This until the painting presents itself in a weightless, immaterial form in which contradictions are resolved and self-evidence is inescapable.
“To restore silence is the role of objects.” – Text by Samuel Becket
Jan van den Berg has spent a long time researching to develop a technique that makes it possible for him to create his ideal image. By combining painting with ink and colorful casein paint on transparent layers of paper on panel, he has found his ideal working method. Removing the apparent contradiction between drawing on paper and painting on canvas and combing these two techniques is one of the great achievements that characterize the work of Jan van den Berg.