28 & 29 April - Aldwin van de Ven

This ninth and final Malerei account the paintings of Aldwin van de Ven (’s-Hertogenbosch, 1980)

"To Aldwin van de Ven (1980, ’s-Hertogenbosch) the paintings that he creates attest, above all, to a potential presence. Looming between the foreground and background, in the various layers of paint—even in scrapings and painted-out parts of the image—is the possible. The sprouting of something from a sense, an observation or musing, a consideration, a dream that vanishes once it appears and then surfaces in another form, as a witticism, an effect, a classical image: in the visual thought of Van de Ven, everything revolves around the principle of restlessness. The images have a simple, laid-back, almost reduced appearance but are deceptive, being hybrid, descriptive by definition and independent of time and identity. Here the world flows in frozen motion: vase, squid, duck, fishermen, boat, clown, corner, face, space. Transformation upon transformation."

Pietje Tegenbosch, 2011

Two Sisters, 2011, 35 x 35 cm, oil on canvas