BorzoGallery presents two artists at Art Island: Michaël de Kok (Hilvarenbeek, 1958) and Henk Visch (Eindhoven, 1950) in a joint presentation titled I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.
We will show previously unseen paintings by Michaël de Kok from the series 'Rose Garden'. His paintings have their origins in the rose garden behind his home. The atmosphere of a languid summer evening - the light, the warmth, the abundance of colour - is filtered through his mind and stripped of all narrative, until what remains is pure painting: deep, warm layers of pink, red and green, applied in many transparent layers of oil paint.
For Henk Visch, we are presenting two works, including the sculpture Anna, from 1997. Visch is one of the most singular sculptors in the Netherlands - recipient of the Wilhelmina Ring and a participant in both the Venice Biennale and Documenta IX. His works occupy the threshold between recognition and enigma: stylised human figures that seem to hesitate, to balance, to exist on the very edge of movement and stillness.