Ronald Zuurmond (1964, The Hague) studied cultural sociology at Tilburg University.
Through his slow paint and images that are both contemporary and timeless, Ronald Zuurmond connects with deep time, the time that measures in units many times greater than a human lifetime.
It is a bid for immortality, without the pretension of historiography. It is “here and now”, being in the moment, knowing that every moment in the past and future is a “here and now”. That is the motivation that forges all these seemingly disparate works into a whole.
But ask the artist about the essence of his style and he quotes Philip Guston: “You know, comments about style always seem strange to me – ‘why do you work in this style, or in that style’ - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.”
Through his slow paint and images that are both contemporary and timeless, Ronald Zuurmond connects with deep time, the time that measures in units many times greater than a human lifetime.
It is a bid for immortality, without the pretension of historiography. It is “here and now”, being in the moment, knowing that every moment in the past and future is a “here and now”. That is the motivation that forges all these seemingly disparate works into a whole.
But ask the artist about the essence of his style and he quotes Philip Guston: “You know, comments about style always seem strange to me – ‘why do you work in this style, or in that style’ - as if you had a choice in the matter... What you're doing is trying to stay alive and continue and not die.”
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