MARIETTE VAN ERP . HANNEKE GIEZEN . KARIN HOOGESTEGER .
16 MARCH – 16 APRIL 2023
CULTIVATED NATURE
The gallery combines the work of three artists who have nature as their subject. Each in its own way and from a different angle. The three artists have in common that they are concerned about the role that humans have in their immediate environment.
Cultivated Nature, a group exhibition by Mariëtte Van Erp, Hanneke Giezen and Karin Hoogesteger.
Mariëtte van Erp shows the landscape in her abstract drawings and paintings, taking reality as a starting point. She makes a drawing of the landscape in which she finds herself. As if were, she is absorbed in the landscape. The drawings are traces of her presence. While she draws Van Erp is not concerned with the result. In her studio she translates her drawings into paintings. She always searches for the essence of a place she visits. Mariëtte van Erp is always looking for different ways to approach her subject, the landscape.
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Hanneke Giezen makes objects made of porcelain that provide a glimpse of the future evolution of various animal species. She lets her imagination run wild and fantasizes about what the world can look like and how some animals have adapted. Inspired by drawings of monsters from the Middle Ages, where explorers discovered new land and tried to capture unknown animals. Her ceramic works are about beauty and ugliness, good and bad taste and everything in between. Giezen is inspired by the shapes from the Baroque and Rococo.
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Karin Hoogesteger investigates and imagines the ever-present tension between culture and nature. Abstract lines or strange elements in a calm environment reinforce the sense of melancholy and poetry that her paintings evoke. She developed an unprecedented light sensitivity that now permeates her entire work. Hoogesteger gives it on canvas with sufficient control that the viewer would absorb in the painting. The dreamy atmosphere of the works, however, gives the viewer the space to reflect his own stories in the paintings.