The intent of making corrections is that it leads to improving what is there, because otherwise why would one correct something. But what if, for example, a corrected drawing continues to look like a corrected drawing? This doubt of not being finished or not being done is the focus of Kimball Gunnar Holth's solo exhibition. For him it is a search for an image before it comes to a final work.
In the series 'Erased Kimball Gunnar Holth drawing' Kimball erased his drawings which he then signed as being finished. A work typical of him in which the unfinished suggest an intermediate result but in reality reached its final goal. He says about this: “I like work before it is finished”. That makes it different, but also comparable to a drawing by Willem de Kooning that another artist, namely Robert Rauschenberg erased in the 1950s.
In another drawing he seems unable to get going. Up to five times he draws an upturned wooden boat on dry land with a hole. A kind of stutter drawing; made each time a little differently, this 5-part work is called 'Drawing of a boat with a hole caused by a cow's leg'.
Part of the gallery floor has been re-coated, suggesting it mirrors the current wall and pale green floor. An unfinished drawing that is finished, a part of the wall partly rolled in with wall paint; they are all works that are underway, but do not want to end up somewhere. This is the end itself.
Kimball Gunnar Holth (1982, Melbourne, AU) graduated in 2017 from the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. In 2019-2021 he participated in several exhibitions at Galerie van Gelder, including group exhibition 'Slaap Lekker Studio'. He is currently an artist-in-residence at 37PK in Haarlem, a period that will end with a final presentation in early November 2022. Also, this November he will return to Rome in Italy to finish his residency at Post Ex Roma, also with an exhibition.