Aam Solleveld
17 Jun - 08 Jul 2006
AAM SOLLEVELD
"Democratie maakt gelukkig’"
The ‘Democratie maakt gelukkig’(Democracy creates Happiness) exhibition displays an installation by Aam Solleveld, a drawing of coloured sellotape stuck directly onto the gallery walls.
Aam Solleveld draws spaces. Early drawings refer to rooms of houses where the artist lived or stayed. They not only refer to the concrete living space, a chair, a table or a bed, but also to intangible things, to large, unnameable feelings which cleave to the walls and adhere to everyday objects.
The drawings are made with graphite pencil. There are austere lines and cold black shading on the white paper. Maximum contrast.
In 2003/2004 Solleveld made a series of drawings of media spaces in the same style. Decors built in studios for radio and television recordings. Spaces in which discussions, political debates or interviews could take place.
Parallel to these works on paper, Solleveld started to make life-size sellotape drawings directly on the walls of spaces. The artist created two of these installations during a period working in China, in the Chinese European Art Centre of Xiamen. Cupboards, a gate, a bar. An archetypal Chinese street. Architecture alternating with everyday objects and media elements. Matter, then emptiness. The drawings are flat and spatial at the same time.
With minimal means and a limited number of lines, Solleveld produces an architectural space which is just as present as the space itself. A space within a space.
© Aam Solleveld
graphite pencil on paper
72 x 102 cm
2003
"Democratie maakt gelukkig’"
The ‘Democratie maakt gelukkig’(Democracy creates Happiness) exhibition displays an installation by Aam Solleveld, a drawing of coloured sellotape stuck directly onto the gallery walls.
Aam Solleveld draws spaces. Early drawings refer to rooms of houses where the artist lived or stayed. They not only refer to the concrete living space, a chair, a table or a bed, but also to intangible things, to large, unnameable feelings which cleave to the walls and adhere to everyday objects.
The drawings are made with graphite pencil. There are austere lines and cold black shading on the white paper. Maximum contrast.
In 2003/2004 Solleveld made a series of drawings of media spaces in the same style. Decors built in studios for radio and television recordings. Spaces in which discussions, political debates or interviews could take place.
Parallel to these works on paper, Solleveld started to make life-size sellotape drawings directly on the walls of spaces. The artist created two of these installations during a period working in China, in the Chinese European Art Centre of Xiamen. Cupboards, a gate, a bar. An archetypal Chinese street. Architecture alternating with everyday objects and media elements. Matter, then emptiness. The drawings are flat and spatial at the same time.
With minimal means and a limited number of lines, Solleveld produces an architectural space which is just as present as the space itself. A space within a space.
© Aam Solleveld
graphite pencil on paper
72 x 102 cm
2003