Ronald Zuurmond 1964

Lives in Breda. Works in Breda.

Represented by:

BorzoGallery

Ronald Zuurmond's style is the search for the image. The things he paints already exist. He just needs to see them, nonchalantly, out of the corner of his eye. They provide a spark, an opening. The rest is hard work and contemplation. This way of painting could be compared to the work of the poet. The first line of a poem is a free gift, the rest is laborious. Trial and error. The poet comparison also applies in another sense. Just as the poet chooses a form, Zuurmond chooses the painting. A choice such as this provides a restriction within which the possibilities unfold. The freedom you experience through restriction is the paradox of the form. For the poet, it is the sonnet; for him, it is the painting. Ronald Zuurmond is a painter who each time has to work out from scratch how he is going to do it. Each canvas is a step towards the next, the paintings fit together in a way. “When you hit a wall, you have to go back and do it again. Only then do you know for sure. And as soon as you think you are sure about something, it's gone again.”
One word that keeps coming up when talking to Ronald Zuurmond, is space. Technically he creates this space by painting layer upon layer, often over earlier unsuccessful paintings, and here and there scraping the paint off again. As if drawing a curtain. This is done with some speed, which is important in order to maintain the necessary distance from the painting.

For him the space in the painting extends from the front to the back, much more than from left to right. The things he paints have to move in this space, both in the flat surface and in the depth. “You have to have a vista and at the same time feel a resistance that the eye collides with. For me the space is both physical and psychological. As a viewer you must be able to get through this space, you must be able to move with it. You must be able to enter into the space of the painting step by step. It is never about a perspective space with me, I don't want the painting to suggest anything other than it physically is.”

http://ronaldzuurmond.com

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Artworks by Ronald Zuurmond

symphonie nr. 5 IV adagietto (liefdebrief)

Jao Mori Baiyaan Na Maroro Girdhari

2024

€ 3.600

Study for nothingness no.7

2020

€ 8.400

Study for nothingness no.4

Articles on Ronald Zuurmond

Artists in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh

I am not going to discuss Van Gogh's life and work here. Those who are interested can turn to the thousands of books that have been written about the man since his death: about his life, his madness, his use of colour, his letters to his brother… an endless stream of words that never runs dry. Why, 133 years after his death, is the painter still a source of inspiration for dozens of artists? With that question in mind, I visited the Geist exhibition, which can be seen at NQ Gallery until 2 July.

Yves Joris

Amsterdam Art Weekend

Last weekend the Amsterdam Art Weekend took place. In addition to the Open Studios at the Rijksakademie, there were numerous events, walking tours, special editions and many galleries opened simultaneously with a new show. Below are a few highlights that can be seen in Amsterdam the coming month.

Wouter van den Eijkel

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Documentary Ronald Zuurmond, Hollandse Meesters

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Art Rotterdam 2022 | Stand 11

2021

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NAP+

Koen Vermeule, Heringa/Van Kalsbeek, Wieteke Heldens, Ronald Zuurmond

12 sep - 15 sep 2024, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2022 | Stand 11

Ewerdt Hilgemann, Koen Vermeule, Jan Henderikse, Jan Commandeur, Michaël de Kok, Ronald Zuurmond

18 may - 22 may 2022, Rotterdam, Nederland

Reality Pictured 2.0

Koen Vermeule, Ronald Zuurmond, Jurriaan Molenaar

29 sep - 23 oct 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Reality Pictured

Koen Vermeule, Ronald Zuurmond, Jurriaan Molenaar

3 jun - 20 jun 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art on Paper, Amsterdam | 2019

Rakuko Naito, Ronald de Bloeme, Ronald Zuurmond

26 sep - 29 sep 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam | 2019

Ronald Zuurmond, Henk Visch

6 feb - 10 feb 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

Reality Imagined

Ronald Zuurmond

8 sep - 29 sep 2017, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museum collection:

SCHUNCK

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

Noord-Brabants Museum

Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht

In corporate collection:

Achmea

AkzoNobel

De Nederlandsche Bank

Market position

Awards
2003 Jeanne Oosting Award For Oil painting
2001 Philip Morris Finest Selection For Art
2000 Finalist Wim Izaks Award

CV

Opleiding | Education
1984-1990 Sociology, Catholic University Brabant
1990-1991 Art Academy Tilburg

Solotentoonstellingen | Solo exhibitions
2019 Art Rotterdam (Rotterdam), BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2017 BorzoGallery, Amsterdam: Reality Imagined
2014 BorzoGallery, Amsterdam: Paintings and collages
Studio van Dusseldorp, Tilburg: Unwrapped
2011 De Nederlansche Bank: Bijzaken
Gallery Metis-nl, Amsterdam: De stand van zaken
2010 Gallery van der Mieden, Antwerp (Belgium), Mumbo Jumbo
Zonca e Zonca, Milan (Italy): it’s already darkening
2008 Gallery Metis-nl, Amsterdam: Bittersweet (publication)
2007 Gallery van der Mieden, Antwerp (Belgium): Schemerschijn
2003 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden: All About Nothing
Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen: Jeanne Oosting Award For Oil Painting
2001 Gallery de Praktijk, Amsterdam: Bonsai (coming to the point)
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen: Philip Morris Award For Art (publication)
2000 Museum Jan Cunen, Oss: Curtain (publication)
1999 Gallery de Praktijk, Amsterdam: Still lifes
1998 Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht: The Flat Land (publication)
1997 De Verschijning, Tilburg: Ruis
Gallery de Praktijk, Amsterdam: The Flat Land
1995 Gallery de Praktijk, Amsterdam: Ruis

Groepstentoonstellingen | Group Exhibitions (selected)
2019 Art on Paper (Amsterdam), BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2015 De Ketelfactory, Schiedam: Buitengaats
Huub Hannen Gallery, Maastricht: The Blue Hour
2014 Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort: Vensters
RAW Art Fair (Rotterdam), BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Studio van Dusseldorp, Tilburg: Winterexpo
2013 PAK, Gistel (Belgium): Birth
De Pont, Tilburg: 99 Vazen
We Like Art, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Collection de Heus-Zomer, Singer Museum, Laren
Studio van Dusseldorp, Tilburg: Wind And Water
2012 Schunck, Heerlen: For Ever Yours
Gallery Espace Enny in collaboration with Tricot Winterwijk: Het Ongerijmde
Gallery Zand, Eindhoven: Six Painters And A Poet
Rabobank Utrecht, Me You We
2011 Huub Hannen Gallery, Maastricht: The Moonlihgt Garden
2009 Studio van Dusseldorp, Tilburg: In Miniature
Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen
Gallery van der Mieden, Antwerp (Belgium): Eden
2007 Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids (U.S.): A Faithful Eye (publication)
Gallery van Kranendonk, The Hague: Kunstplanten
‘WATER’, Museum Waterland, Purmerend
2006 De Pont, Tilburg: Noah’s Arc
Armando Museum, Amersfoort: Painters Pur Sang
Artissima Torino, Italy, Gallery Metis-nl, Amsterdam
2005 Institute Collection Netherlands, Ministry of OCW The Hague: in tijdelijk gebruik
De Nederlandsche Bnak, Amsterdam: Noah’s Arc
Liste Berlin, Gallery van Kranendonk: The Tilburg School
Gallery van de Mieden, Antwerpen (Belgium), Noah’s Arc
2004 Slot Zeist, Zeist: Never ending landscapes
Monastry Wittem, Wittem: Pelgrimage -The Tilburg School-
2003 Faxx: platform for contemporary art, Tilburg: TheTilburg School (publication)
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen: The Tilburg School
Kunstverein Salzgitter -Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter: The Tilburg School
2002 European Central Bank, Frankfurt: Contemporary Art From The Netherlands (publication)
Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam: The Tilburg School (publication)
2001 Gallery Daniel Hoffman, Paris (France)
2000 Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Wim Izaks Award
Arco Madrid, Gallery de Praktijk, Amsterdam
1999 Fries Museum, Leeuwarden: The Other Land
Gallery Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdam: Sculls

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