In the work of Stijn Kriele, the cultivated (Zeeland) landscape is an important guideline. He investigates which constants are indispensable to recognize the landscape as such. What makes a landscape a landscape? The possibilities are dictated by the visual elements present. In his paintings and works on paper, the artist is free to determine the setting, the color scheme, the lines and the division of the surface.
It is tempting to call the painter's approach minimalist or formal, but that observation does not do justice to the expeditions he takes. Kriele wants to achieve the essence of landscape experience and achieve the maximum return from a minimal use of visual means, but does not do so through a dogmatic path. Abstract and figurative are not played against each other. The openness and movement in Kriele's work is precisely due to the simultaneous presence of both. He translates his observations into works on paper, oil paintings and photo works in which green nuances and shades of gray dominate and in which peace, clarity and stillness are elevated to the highest power.
Painting and photography are inextricably linked with each other in the creation process. The cultivated landscapes that Kriele photographed are so tightly arranged and directed that his photographs approach the core of fundamental painting. Air, water, bunkers, breakwaters, poles, jetties and gravel beds form more or less geometrically ordered compositions consisting of clean lines, image planes and horizontal lines. Yet it concerns concrete observations that he registers. At best, a painting by Stijn Kriele is created within his own framework that does not understand reality. The painting is then not derived from reality, but is stripped of reality. There is then a painterly problem that can not be traced back to anything outside the painting. He hopes to bring the painting to a point that requires him to do an intervention that brings a new insight. For that he has to do something, which he has not done before, but which is the consequence of what has been developed in his earlier paintings. The question is always which painterly building blocks can still be reversed.
bron: Alex de Vries
It is tempting to call the painter's approach minimalist or formal, but that observation does not do justice to the expeditions he takes. Kriele wants to achieve the essence of landscape experience and achieve the maximum return from a minimal use of visual means, but does not do so through a dogmatic path. Abstract and figurative are not played against each other. The openness and movement in Kriele's work is precisely due to the simultaneous presence of both. He translates his observations into works on paper, oil paintings and photo works in which green nuances and shades of gray dominate and in which peace, clarity and stillness are elevated to the highest power.
Painting and photography are inextricably linked with each other in the creation process. The cultivated landscapes that Kriele photographed are so tightly arranged and directed that his photographs approach the core of fundamental painting. Air, water, bunkers, breakwaters, poles, jetties and gravel beds form more or less geometrically ordered compositions consisting of clean lines, image planes and horizontal lines. Yet it concerns concrete observations that he registers. At best, a painting by Stijn Kriele is created within his own framework that does not understand reality. The painting is then not derived from reality, but is stripped of reality. There is then a painterly problem that can not be traced back to anything outside the painting. He hopes to bring the painting to a point that requires him to do an intervention that brings a new insight. For that he has to do something, which he has not done before, but which is the consequence of what has been developed in his earlier paintings. The question is always which painterly building blocks can still be reversed.
bron: Alex de Vries
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Stijn Kriele (NL)
1972
Woont en werkt in Tilburg
Opleiding: Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg.
Tentoonstellingen (solo)
2017 FOCUS # 7, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2016 Galerie Arti Capelli, Den Bosch
2015 Ogenschouw, Galerie Agnes Raben, Vorden
2014 Kruisende Ritmes, Galerie C.de Vos, Aalst (BE)
Currents. Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2012 Home-Ground(werktitel) W3, Vlissingen i.s.m Desiree de Baar
2011 Gigacase, Lineart, Gent,i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2010 Junction, Expotainer W3, Vlissingen
N 51.4652870 - E 3.5403981, Galerie Artipoli, Noorden
Void, Galerie C. de Vos, Aalst (BE), duo met Desiree de Baar
2009 Natura Magistra- Artipoli, Noorden
2008 TIDE- Gallerie AIR, Lochem
2007 OCEAN-DRIVE- Galerij C. De Vos, Aalst (BE)
2006 On te Road-Galerie van de Berge,Goes
2005 With you I might get there-Galerij C. De Vos, Aalst (BE)
Hogeschool Amsterdam
2004 Calm(I am calm) SN-Gallery, Den Haag
2002 Galerie Podion, Amsterdam
Werkperiode W3- Vlissingen
SUMMER STORM- tentoonstelling n.a.v. de werkperiode W3
2001 TIDE, FAXX, Tilburg
2000 SUROUND- De Watertoren, Vlissingen
Heavenly Light, Paraplu Fabriek, Nijmegen (duo tentoonstelling)
1999 Omgeven II, GHL, Middelburg
Spiderman, duo presentatie met Klaas Kloosterboer. EXEDRA, Hilversum
1997 Omgeven, De Watertoren (dependance), Vlissingen
Tentoonstellingen (groep)
2015 Worlds of Nature, Ram Foundation, Rotterdam
2014 Works on Paper, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie van den Berge, Amsterdam
Broodthaers aan de Zee, Navigo-Nationaal Visserijmuseum, Oost Duinkerke (BE)
2013 View Indicator, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Reason & Romance, 6B Gallery, Elingen (BE)
2011 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2010 Het geheim van Roelofs, Galerie Artipoli, Noorden
2009 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2008 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
Showcase, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2007 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
Coloratura, De Halle, Geel (BE)
2006 Over-schrijdend, Romaanse Kerk, Oudenburg (BE)
2005 Licht en Landschap, Grafisch Atelier Den Bosch
2003 The Road Show, Galerie Bastiaans, Boxmeer
Pass-Works, Gemeente Eindhoven, Galerie Witteveen ,Amsterdam
Rijzend Daglicht, Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Eindhoven
2002 Het geheugen van een stad, Breda, performance i.s.m. Loek Grootjans
2000 Vierde Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Exedra,Hilversum
Van plint tot plafond- Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven
1999 LINKS, Schilderkunst inextremis, ProvinciehuisMaastricht, i.s.m. Galerie In Situ ,Aalst (BE)
Archisex and Bodybuilding, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Uitgelicht 3, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Uitgelicht 3, KunstRAI, Amsterdam
Artists Village, MU art foundation, Eindhoven
1998 Moira, Utrecht
Werkperiode in gastatelier,Kunsthaus Tacheles,Berlijn (DE)
Element of Time, groepstentoonstelling in WUK, Wenen (AT)
1 uit 5-Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
A- Boerderij The Extatic Life Of Artists! Tilburg
1997 Vrije Aankopen- CBK, Dordrecht
E 55 Rally , Challenge Trophy Linz, Tabor, Praag, Dresden ,Berlijn
Vorsicht Bissiger Hund , De Effenaar,Eindhoven
1996 Galerie Kokon, Tilburg
Tropic of printed matter, De Fabriek ,Eindhoven
Work in Progress, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Obra Grafica, Oviedo (ES)
Beurzen
2009 - BKKC Brabants Kenniscentrum Kunst en Cultuur
1999/2001/2004 - Basisbeurs, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
1996/1998/1999/2000/2002/2003//2005/2007 - Noord-Brabants Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunstenaars, Breda
1997 - Startstipendium, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
Nevenactiviteiten
2014 - heden Docent Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2014- 2015 Coördinator ArtCoDe -Art/Communication/Design-, Tilburg
2005 -heden Docent Academie voor Architectuur en Stedenbouw, Tilburg
2014- heden Curator eindexamen expositie Fontys Hogeschool voor de kunsten, Tilburg
2009-2013 Curator bij de Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haemstede
2008 Onderwijs assistent audio visueel, Academie v. Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2002 Werkplaats assistent grafiek Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2001-2006 Werkplaats assistent grafiek HKU, Utrecht
2000 -2002 Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Eindhoven
1999 Gastdocent Academie St. Joost Breda
1972
Woont en werkt in Tilburg
Opleiding: Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg.
Tentoonstellingen (solo)
2017 FOCUS # 7, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2016 Galerie Arti Capelli, Den Bosch
2015 Ogenschouw, Galerie Agnes Raben, Vorden
2014 Kruisende Ritmes, Galerie C.de Vos, Aalst (BE)
Currents. Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2012 Home-Ground(werktitel) W3, Vlissingen i.s.m Desiree de Baar
2011 Gigacase, Lineart, Gent,i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2010 Junction, Expotainer W3, Vlissingen
N 51.4652870 - E 3.5403981, Galerie Artipoli, Noorden
Void, Galerie C. de Vos, Aalst (BE), duo met Desiree de Baar
2009 Natura Magistra- Artipoli, Noorden
2008 TIDE- Gallerie AIR, Lochem
2007 OCEAN-DRIVE- Galerij C. De Vos, Aalst (BE)
2006 On te Road-Galerie van de Berge,Goes
2005 With you I might get there-Galerij C. De Vos, Aalst (BE)
Hogeschool Amsterdam
2004 Calm(I am calm) SN-Gallery, Den Haag
2002 Galerie Podion, Amsterdam
Werkperiode W3- Vlissingen
SUMMER STORM- tentoonstelling n.a.v. de werkperiode W3
2001 TIDE, FAXX, Tilburg
2000 SUROUND- De Watertoren, Vlissingen
Heavenly Light, Paraplu Fabriek, Nijmegen (duo tentoonstelling)
1999 Omgeven II, GHL, Middelburg
Spiderman, duo presentatie met Klaas Kloosterboer. EXEDRA, Hilversum
1997 Omgeven, De Watertoren (dependance), Vlissingen
Tentoonstellingen (groep)
2015 Worlds of Nature, Ram Foundation, Rotterdam
2014 Works on Paper, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie van den Berge, Amsterdam
Broodthaers aan de Zee, Navigo-Nationaal Visserijmuseum, Oost Duinkerke (BE)
2013 View Indicator, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Reason & Romance, 6B Gallery, Elingen (BE)
2011 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2010 Het geheim van Roelofs, Galerie Artipoli, Noorden
2009 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
2008 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
Showcase, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2007 Lineart, Gent i.s.m. Galerij C. de Vos
Coloratura, De Halle, Geel (BE)
2006 Over-schrijdend, Romaanse Kerk, Oudenburg (BE)
2005 Licht en Landschap, Grafisch Atelier Den Bosch
2003 The Road Show, Galerie Bastiaans, Boxmeer
Pass-Works, Gemeente Eindhoven, Galerie Witteveen ,Amsterdam
Rijzend Daglicht, Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Eindhoven
2002 Het geheugen van een stad, Breda, performance i.s.m. Loek Grootjans
2000 Vierde Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Exedra,Hilversum
Van plint tot plafond- Galerie Peninsula, Eindhoven
1999 LINKS, Schilderkunst inextremis, ProvinciehuisMaastricht, i.s.m. Galerie In Situ ,Aalst (BE)
Archisex and Bodybuilding, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Uitgelicht 3, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Uitgelicht 3, KunstRAI, Amsterdam
Artists Village, MU art foundation, Eindhoven
1998 Moira, Utrecht
Werkperiode in gastatelier,Kunsthaus Tacheles,Berlijn (DE)
Element of Time, groepstentoonstelling in WUK, Wenen (AT)
1 uit 5-Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem
A- Boerderij The Extatic Life Of Artists! Tilburg
1997 Vrije Aankopen- CBK, Dordrecht
E 55 Rally , Challenge Trophy Linz, Tabor, Praag, Dresden ,Berlijn
Vorsicht Bissiger Hund , De Effenaar,Eindhoven
1996 Galerie Kokon, Tilburg
Tropic of printed matter, De Fabriek ,Eindhoven
Work in Progress, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Obra Grafica, Oviedo (ES)
Beurzen
2009 - BKKC Brabants Kenniscentrum Kunst en Cultuur
1999/2001/2004 - Basisbeurs, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
1996/1998/1999/2000/2002/2003//2005/2007 - Noord-Brabants Fonds Voor Beeldende Kunstenaars, Breda
1997 - Startstipendium, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
Nevenactiviteiten
2014 - heden Docent Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2014- 2015 Coördinator ArtCoDe -Art/Communication/Design-, Tilburg
2005 -heden Docent Academie voor Architectuur en Stedenbouw, Tilburg
2014- heden Curator eindexamen expositie Fontys Hogeschool voor de kunsten, Tilburg
2009-2013 Curator bij de Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haemstede
2008 Onderwijs assistent audio visueel, Academie v. Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2002 Werkplaats assistent grafiek Academie voor Beeldende Vorming, Tilburg
2001-2006 Werkplaats assistent grafiek HKU, Utrecht
2000 -2002 Grafisch Atelier Daglicht, Eindhoven
1999 Gastdocent Academie St. Joost Breda