Staring Through
3 Oktober - 31 Oktober 2020
The Josilda da Conceição gallery presents a new show with Leendert Vooijce, Jim Mooijekind and Mark van Overeem, Luke McCowan.
Four young artists with surprising new work.
Staring at different sights, these four artists find their own perspective of reality. They are complementing each others works through different media.
Leendert Vooijce positions himself next to you, opposite you or with you in the limitations of language, concepts and understanding. In this way he playfully tilts reality so that there is room for the alternative, a continuous movement. The dramaturgy of the daily routine is in a performative way the guideline for this continuous research. Responding to the events of daily life, it is the artistic choice that comes first. As a result, the work is both hyper-personal and engaged.
Jim Mooijekind works from themes he find hard to grasp. Abstract concepts like his emotions , psychology, art as whole and his position within the arts. He symbolizes these abstract observations in a figurative cartoonesk manner. In this realm of symbolism there is a place being created where The Epic and mundane can co-exist . Male pattern baldness as a Memento Mori and a plank leaning on a stick symbolizing the entire artworld. Jim does this way of simplification to understand and study these matters he find hard to wrap his head around, and to communicate with people that may be in the same space of thought.
Mark van Overeem graduated from The Hague’s Royal Academy of Arts (KABK) in 1995. Following a residency in New York, boundaries, reflections and repetitions began to play a recurrent role in his work. He is interested in the way people experience the constraints they impose on themselves and he seeks to convey that experience to the public, for each of whom it will be palpable but different. Initially, Van Overeem used oils on board to explore the phenomenon but for the last seven years he has appropriated the human environment, linking the world of the imagination and illusion to the tangible realities of life.
Luke McCowan’s paintings often deal with layering and texture. His photographic based work stems from nostalgia and antiquity, which he then obscures with a vibrant, modernistic layer. On the other hand, his abstract work more purely deals with creating a hypercolorful world and combining organic and synthetic forms.
Whether he works with photography or abstraction as a starting point, Luke creates environments that the brushstrokes live within by giving them weight, motion and contrast to the other aspects of the painting. By taking different painting styles and techniques, he collides them onto one canvas, attempting to give an appearance that multiple people have had a hand in making each piece.