Daan van Golden
05 Dec 2008 - 08 Feb 2009
© Daan van Golden
Buddha, 1971 – 1973
Tempera, dried flowers on canvas on framed panel
114 x 92 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp and Green Naftali Gallery, New York
Buddha, 1971 – 1973
Tempera, dried flowers on canvas on framed panel
114 x 92 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp and Green Naftali Gallery, New York
DAAN VAN GOLDEN
05 December - 8 February 2009
Daan van Golden finds beauty in the everyday and shows us familiar things in a new way. In his paintings and photographs he appropriates images discovered in the world around him, drawing from the out-of-the-ordinary moments that occur in his life.
Renowned and celebrated in The Netherlands since the 1960s, Daan van Golden opens his first solo exhibition in the UK at Camden Arts Centre.
After becoming interested in Zen philosophy during time spent in Japan, he slowed down his painting technique, producing work in a meditative, thoughtful and deliberate way. He used tea towels, decorative wallpaper and fabric as subjects.
Later he began to source imagery from the history of art after discovering strange, wonderful new subjects within paintings by Pollock and Matisse.
The exhibition includes over thirty paintings from the 1960s to the present and photographs selected from the series 'Youth is an art', images van Golden took of his daughter as she was growing up from 1978 – 1996.
These translations cross between pop and photorealism, structural and conceptual art, minimalism and abstraction.
05 December - 8 February 2009
Daan van Golden finds beauty in the everyday and shows us familiar things in a new way. In his paintings and photographs he appropriates images discovered in the world around him, drawing from the out-of-the-ordinary moments that occur in his life.
Renowned and celebrated in The Netherlands since the 1960s, Daan van Golden opens his first solo exhibition in the UK at Camden Arts Centre.
After becoming interested in Zen philosophy during time spent in Japan, he slowed down his painting technique, producing work in a meditative, thoughtful and deliberate way. He used tea towels, decorative wallpaper and fabric as subjects.
Later he began to source imagery from the history of art after discovering strange, wonderful new subjects within paintings by Pollock and Matisse.
The exhibition includes over thirty paintings from the 1960s to the present and photographs selected from the series 'Youth is an art', images van Golden took of his daughter as she was growing up from 1978 – 1996.
These translations cross between pop and photorealism, structural and conceptual art, minimalism and abstraction.