Four artists have a special affinity with time. One of them lets time mature in a drawing concept, another beckons with charcoal and pastel from a dreamy memory, the third creates a timeless abstraction of colours with paint and number four paints visions in contemporary reality.
Stephan van den Burg (1974) is an exploring draftsman, with a great interest in the breadth of drawing and the conceptual charge of the work. Attention to the process and a precise drawing hand are of great importance. His own photos, found fragments and material studies form the starting point of his drawings, which invite you to come closer and reflect on what a drawing can be.
Sigrid van Woudenberg’s (1967) drawings are almost photographic, like stills from a film. The large formats show small human figures in an overwhelming nature. The smaller drawings zoom in on that. Sigrid works associatively with paper, Siberian chalk and pencil. She models her material very physically, like a sculptor and with great precision. The black is in any case intensely deep in the foreground against a sharply contrasting white. The light sparkles between the grey nuances. In the shadow of that light, with which the dark contrasts strongly, there is often an event.
Philippe van Gele (1979) transforms a desire for the unknown in his paintings. The works look abstract and lyrical expressionistic. At the same time, his paintings evoke a mysterious atmosphere, they tell about his inner world, the fantasy of how a place in the world can look like, filled with atmospheres, energies and associations. The titles betray a physical origin of his fantasy. The attractive use of colour comes from the play of his travelling mind with the here and now, in search of a meaning in which he can immerse himself happily.
Casper Verborg (1981) paints scenes with large gestures and bright colours in which well-known figures or unknown characters emerge from the background. He shows the world as the theatre of inner turmoil without explicitly zooming in on what is actually happening. His characters hint at human drama or just everyday matters. There are references to painters from the Romantic period but also to more contemporary abstraction.