Bas Zoontjen
23 Feb - 11 Mar 2007
Bas Zoontjen
Planet of the Planets, Studio 3
February 23 – March 11 2007
Opening: Thursday, 22. February 2007, 19 h
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.
Planet of the Planets, Studio 3
February 23 – March 11 2007
Opening: Thursday, 22. February 2007, 19 h
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.
Bas Zoontjen's pictures are a dialogue with the canvas, onto which he projects both his questions and their answers. The images themselves resemble travel impressions of fantastic-surreal architecture and landscapes. Rough, brightly-coloured, organic and graphic forms strive to find the ideal balance, generating new forms in the process. The viewer finds himself confronted with the traces of a process as well as self-contained painterly surfaces. He not only reads the current form, but also finds inferences to the path that led there.
As a consequence, Zoontjen's pictures are also narratives. They arise during the thorough examination of a fictive story that seems to include both past and future. Imaginative forms implode or explode in a multitude of sometimes drastically garish colours. They describe the world as it might appear after some huge catastrophe - at a point in time when new life is already blossoming from the ruins. His surreal, interplanetary panoramas confuse our perception of reality, but in a productive way.