Annet Gelink Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming edition of Art Rotterdam from 19.05 until 22.05! Artists Josse Pyl, Minne Kersten and Rinella Alfonso will be on view.
Josse Pyl (1991, Belgium) works with a variety of media, from works on paper to sculptural works, to emphasize the way in which our use of objects and symbols influences how we know and experience the world around us. Shown at Art Rotterdam is a selection of Pyl’s drawings as well as a special edition of his publication i THINK and I think I’ve THOUGHT a thought (2021), which collects the various components of Pyl's practice from 2014 to 2021. In Pyl’s paper works object and text melt together, developing a new structure in which coded language and inner thoughts are visualized. The works exist somewhere between looking and reading and explore language as a material element in our daily reality.
Minne Kersten (1993, Netherlands) conducts research simultaneously through making and reading. During Art Rotterdam, her work Constant Companion (2021) will be on show as a part of the video section Projections. The work brings forth the mythological figure of the Raven as its main protagonist. It is introduced as a creature that inhabits a dual world: it can literally navigate between the outside and inside by flying through windows and doors, but can also be seen as either a metaphor or a real, flying creature. Along with this video, a selection of Kersten’s small paintings will be on show. These are at once part of a research process and an outcome, often functioning as a reminder for a title, word or thought.
Rinella Alfonso (1995, Curaçao) creates mystical worlds on canvas by placing everyday objects in stark fantasy environments. The featured objects in her work are often cheaply produced and disposable, yet bear meaning in Alfonso’s memories of people and places. Using the formal language of painting, she produces poetic works that offer the viewer a new reality in which bodies, everyday objects, memories, and fiction coexist. Manicured hands, plastic chairs or beaded curtains interact with their fantastical surroundings in an absurdist yet natural way. Both bodily shapes and objects are painted in impasto pigments, and as things collide with beings, Alfonso proposes a new reality in which both exist on a similar level.