JAN VAN DEN BERG . SUSAN DE BOER . JACQUES VAN ERVEN .
15 OCTOBER – 13 NOVEMBER 2022
UNTITLED
This group exhibition features work by three painters who do not use titles for their work. This indicates that for them it is not about a story or an anecdote. All three artists have consciously looked for the material with they can best express their ideas. The use of materials is an important aspect in their work.
UNTITLED, a group exhibition by Jan van den Berg, Susan de Boer and Jacques van Erven.
Jan van den Berg paints and draws with ink and casein on transparent paper on panel. Van den Berg wants to paint images that are as weightless as possible and in which there is movement and peace, but also transparency and silence.
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Susan de Boer takes the landscape as a starting point for her oil paintings. In this she experiments with space. Her work creates a front and back image. De Boer’s artistry is a constant investigation into the possibilities that oil paint offers.
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Jacques van Erven (1952), lives and works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Jacques graduated in 1978 from the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Van Erven and the gallery have been working together for years and Jacques has exhibited at the gallery several times and during KunstRAI in Amsterdam. While painting Jacques van Erven searches for what is special about apparently insignificant places in the forest. You are not invited to enter a ‘paradise’, no expansive landscapes with a horizon. Nature goes its own way, despite human intervention. His paintings almost seem like anatomical lessons. They realistically expose the engine of plant life, especially trees, underground. The world of root systems, which is supposed to be hidden from the human eye. In some cases, you can see what happened before. Forces of nature have done their work. Other times, life above ground continues as usual, and roots, stumps and remains of trees are covered by mosses that have survived everything for millions of years. They seem to have a soothing, caressing effect on the confrontational sight.
