Artists also play their part in the theatre of life. What is essential is how they find the inner liberation from their individual inspiration that resonates in the collective. For example, in nature or social engagement or in more emotional or philosophical reflections. It produces a range of artistic expressions with ditto complexity of meaning.
In the exhibition ‘Mise en Scène’, four emerging artists position themselves as their own directors, individually looking for free space to live, develop and create something, because they have to.
One calls himself father, doctor and painter at the same time, a versatile inspiration to get to know humanity in its many aspects. Another stays for a long time as a solitary camper, and photographing nature, looking for the light in a dark, untouched landscape. In addition, a third questions the rules of social behaviour in film, photos or video installations. And the fourth artist, with his philosophical approaches to life and death, puts good and evil in perspective, transforming the experiences with paint and canvas into 'enlightened' paintings.
Vincent van Gaalen (NL 1984) (photography)
Klaas Jonkman (MW 1990) (painting)
Myrte van der Molen (NL 1994) (video, photography)
Obbe Tiddens (DE 1980) (painting )