Koen van den Broek: Stuff
A monograph of works by Koen van den Broek In his paintings, Koen van den Broek investigates the human experience of the environment. His paintings are readily recognisable. They are descriptions of the landscape, urban architecture, constructions or details thereof. His works show traces of human presence: circus tents, highways, bridges, sewers, pipes, fragments of houses or cars, sidewalk curbs... His personal collection of photographs, snapshots that he takes on his countless journeys, are his artistic points of departure. Koen van den Broek opts for unsightly motifs, fragments that are recurrent in any town. The artist seeks out anonymity, the general rather than the specific. His oeuvre consists of painted versions of his snapshots. The relationship vis-à-vis photography is essential to his work. Transformation and variation with respect to the original photographic shot is crucial. Playfulness, diversity and duality - rigid delineation versus wild brush strokes, depth versus surface - are all characteristic of his work. Koen van den Broek questions the viewing schemes of photography. His paintings are anti-images, reactions against the recordings of a piece of apparatus: the camera. His painterly focus is paint, colours' spatial effect and the reduction of motifs to their most naked form. His paintings show fragmentation and randomness, in contrast to the controlling and the summarising effect that photography brings. Boundaries dominate his work: both in investigating the frontiers of the painting as surface, as in his preference for boundary-related motifs: gutters, bridges, corners of buildings... He paints the void, the pause, just the moment when all is still. His images seem to be holding their breath: they show the instant when something has just happened, or is just about to happen.
yazar | MER - B&L/Exhibitions International |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 22 x 1,4 x 29,2 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 13 Ocak 2020 |
21,6 x 0,2 x 27,9 cm Collectif 21,6 x 0,6 x 27,9 cm 23 Temmuz 2017 J B SBoon 21 x 0,5 x 29,7 cm 12 Eylül 2017 12 Ekim 2016 28 Şubat 2018 Kolektif Emily Grace 25 Şubat 2018 Insight Editions 22 Mayıs 2016 edition cumulus 14,8 x 0,7 x 21 cm 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm 14,8 x 0,5 x 21 cm
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yazar | MER - B&L/Exhibitions International |
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isbn 10 | 9089319972 |
isbn 13 | 978-9089319975 |
Yayımcı | MER - B&L/Exhibitions International; 01. baskı |
Dilim | İngilizce |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 22 x 1,4 x 29,2 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Koen van den Broek: Stuff | 13 Ocak 2020 |
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