MIKE DINGS . BERRY SANDERS .
4 MAY – 9 JUNE 2024
DE GROTE STILTE
This duo exhibition features work by two painters who both use film and digital media as their starting point. As a director, they both capture a scene on canvas and want to portray an entire scene with as little information as possible.
De grote stilte, a duo exhibition by Mike Dings and Berry Sanders.
Mike Dings finds inspiration for his paintings in the classic genre of the Western, in particular Spaghetti Westerns. These Italian films appropriate the style of the Hollywood fantasy of the wild west. Dings plays a similar game in his series of paintings in which he depicts the typical iconography of Western movies. Similarly to the process of movie making, his paintings are made in series and sequences where he transfers the monumentality of the filmic close onto his canvasses. It is as if the artist is in dialogue with the moviemaker, explaining that he needs even less details to unfold the monumentality and iconography that triggers the fantasy of the cinematic version of the Wild West.
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It is the first time that Berry Sanders (1971), born in Rotterdam, currently lives and works in Eindhoven, exhibiting at Galerie Nasty Alice. For Berry Sanders painting is a way of thinking and imagining the world. Sanders gets inspiration from newspapers, photos and other media. Painting is getting a grip on reality. His subjects are dystopian, whether based on architecture, landscape or interior views. Berry Sanders shows a world in which it is difficult to relate to. His work seems surrealistic, but it concerns reality.