Bert de Beul
10 Feb - 14 Apr 2007
BERT DE BEUL
"Bilder"
Exhibition: 10 February 2007 – 14 April 2007
Opening reception: 9 February 2007, 7 – 9 pm
Bert de Beul's paintings show still lifes, landscapes, city views as well as people. But their depiction is neither of a pittoresque kind, nor of an moodladen or atmospheric kind. Sketching his impressions he exclusively works on details or first cuts, high-contrasted and blurred outlines. The perspec-tive's subjevtivity is often reinforced by the spacial clo-seness in which de Beul shows his ambience. Concurrently the Sfumato brings about an insuperable distance. It seems as if impressions of our own remembrance – that we thought of as being lost – suddenly appear. But this feeling is not actually substantiated.
De Beul's initial point emanates from the space that surrounds the artist but the artist also refers to reproductions from newspapers, packaging materials, his own sketches or photo-graphs. A trottoir, a window front with an indicated interi-eur, boxes under a sun shade, the incidental is always in fo-cus. De Beul creates quiet, harmonically composed views of reality that usually get lost due to our selective memory. But especially these cursory impressions release associations or rather a stream of consciousness. Room for the viewer' s own impressions also opens the rather indicated than illustrated situations. The tonality remains obscure, only seldom lucid colours are recognizeable. Shadows with nealy human-like con-tours, the covert corners of a room, closed doors or opaque windows of a faded wall evoke an almost gloomy atmosphere. According to Freud we experience the sudden intrusion of ele-ments of the unconscious or the subconscious into the everyday life as something sinister.
The interplay of an idefinable closeness that the beholder ex-periences by an alleged memory (which eludes during a moment of unconscious repression) and the irreconcilable distance of the world that the artist depicts (by the drawing technique, the perspective and last but not least by the choice of his motives) creates complex works that – in the truest sense of the word – move the beholder.
For questions, further information and reproducable illustra-tions please contact Kewenig Galerie: Phone +49-221-964 9050 / email:
info@kewenig.com
Opening hours of the gallery: Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.
"Bilder"
Exhibition: 10 February 2007 – 14 April 2007
Opening reception: 9 February 2007, 7 – 9 pm
Bert de Beul's paintings show still lifes, landscapes, city views as well as people. But their depiction is neither of a pittoresque kind, nor of an moodladen or atmospheric kind. Sketching his impressions he exclusively works on details or first cuts, high-contrasted and blurred outlines. The perspec-tive's subjevtivity is often reinforced by the spacial clo-seness in which de Beul shows his ambience. Concurrently the Sfumato brings about an insuperable distance. It seems as if impressions of our own remembrance – that we thought of as being lost – suddenly appear. But this feeling is not actually substantiated.
De Beul's initial point emanates from the space that surrounds the artist but the artist also refers to reproductions from newspapers, packaging materials, his own sketches or photo-graphs. A trottoir, a window front with an indicated interi-eur, boxes under a sun shade, the incidental is always in fo-cus. De Beul creates quiet, harmonically composed views of reality that usually get lost due to our selective memory. But especially these cursory impressions release associations or rather a stream of consciousness. Room for the viewer' s own impressions also opens the rather indicated than illustrated situations. The tonality remains obscure, only seldom lucid colours are recognizeable. Shadows with nealy human-like con-tours, the covert corners of a room, closed doors or opaque windows of a faded wall evoke an almost gloomy atmosphere. According to Freud we experience the sudden intrusion of ele-ments of the unconscious or the subconscious into the everyday life as something sinister.
The interplay of an idefinable closeness that the beholder ex-periences by an alleged memory (which eludes during a moment of unconscious repression) and the irreconcilable distance of the world that the artist depicts (by the drawing technique, the perspective and last but not least by the choice of his motives) creates complex works that – in the truest sense of the word – move the beholder.
For questions, further information and reproducable illustra-tions please contact Kewenig Galerie: Phone +49-221-964 9050 / email:
info@kewenig.com
Opening hours of the gallery: Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm.