Van Gelder

in GvG

Foundations and Flowers
To reduce the world to its essence has been pursued for centuries. What the Greek philosophers saw before the Christian Era in spermatozoïdes, we now see in Higgs particles. In the paintings of Jaap Kroneman elegant curls, stylized scribblings with corrections, strings, circles and crosses that are crossed appear on snow-white backgrounds. It is as if someone has looked through the microscope of a scientist to not yet discovered elements of DNA-structures. Jaap Kronemanâ€TMs works lead us to a graphic structuring of straight, curved and meandering lines that resembles most the basic principles applied to icons.

A next step in the work of Jaap Kroneman could have been the essence of the essence, but there is none. In the exhibition Foundations and Flowers this is leading him to a three-dimensional object: the vase. Which is as old as the road to Rome. It also brings him back to nature: flowers. As part of nature these are even older than the vase or Rome.