Artist Opens Pandora's Box
Klaas Kloosterboer is a conceptual painter whose art takes variable forms. In his practice he pursues a kind of 'expanded painting'. KK makes pieces following instructions that warrant a swift and objective execution, but he designs his exhibitions as spatial environments that give a feel of improvisation or experimentation. With him a display is never a fixed visual entity but rather a testing ground for artistic ideas.
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Let me return once more to the other works. Most of them are based on a simple instruction, e.g., cover a canvas with rows of brown stains that will not touch one another. The result is very earthly, I recognize the image of cow pies on a farmer's field. And here we have another poignant background to KK's practice, his experience of the polder land in which he grew up - whereof the echoes still resound in his statement: "Space and Freedom Is what I Long For."
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text Mark Kremer, Winter 2020