Marian Cramer is pleased to present Transmutations - a three person show – with new works by ARJEN, RYAN BROWNING and ATTILIO ESPOSITO.
On view at Marian Cramer Projects in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Transmutations places the three artists into dialogue around their expressive use of color and light, and their distinct versions of contemporary painting. All three artists are ingeniously apt at creating a fine sense of depth, building a perspective on the image surface, manipulating light in a great manner and all three work with polished surfaces resulting in the sensation of voluminous, luminously bright shapes.
Utilizing the materiality of paint and the viscosity of oils has been a key element for painters' practices over the centuries. Starting with Giotto in 13th century Italy or Peter Paul Rubens in Belgium, elaborated by Diego Velázquez in Spain, and Rembrandt or Johannes Vermeer in The Netherlands to Picasso and Condo, the need to accentuate the physical attributes of the imagery has been driving the progression of techniques and feeding the sprouting of new painterly styles and movements.