ZOOM
Ricardo van Eyk, Frank Nitsche, Benjamin Roth, Han Schuil
Greenhouses: smart modular building systems extending across Westland, grid by grid, like a glass landscape. Under the classic shed roofs, Dutch exports grow and thrive in the form of tomatoes and cucumbers. For ZOOM, from 3 September to 8 October at Galerie Onrust, Ricardo van Eyk is basing his space-filling installation CIVIL II on such a greenhouse, in which the cucumbers and tomatoes have made way for art. His work hangs in and around it, alongside the work of Frank Nitsche, Benjamin Roth and Han Schuil, as if coming to fruition here, in the ideal light and climate conditions. But in CIVIL II, Van Eyk, who considers himself a painter, also creates direction and space, vistas and layers, while sharpening the focus on the other works and connecting them to one another. This emphasises the architectural associations in Nitsche’s paintings, the spatial effect in the work of Schuil, and the illusions that Roth creates with plasterboard and screws from the hardware store. And it raises questions about abstraction and figuration, about painting and building, and about reality and illusion. But it also shows what captures an artist’s eye, what is consciously or unconsciously noted and retained, making this first and foremost a plea for looking, observing and zooming in: Zoom!