Frank Taal Galerie is proud to show work by Isabelle Borges, Bram Braam, Jan ten Have, Gerben Mulder, Tycho van Zomeren during the special spring edition of Art Rotterdam 2022.
Isabelle Borges (BR, 1996) In her mostly abstract works, Isabelle Borges explores patterns and structures she encounters in the visible world. Her main focus is on the geometry of the spaces between things and the resulting spatial dynamics.
Bram Braam (NL, 1980) views public space through the eye of a sculpturer. The artist has established an intimate connection to the city and its architecture. The city of Berlin is known for its many contrasts in rich and poor, slick and raw. It is these contrasts that the artist plays with and brings together in his work, reflecting upon the manufacturability of a city.
Jan ten Have (NL, 1957) pushes toward a new approach of the tension between form and matter in his art practice. Ten Have thinks beyond the boundaries of the traditional use of matter. He brings out what is exterior to it. He sets a doctrine of materialism, in which matter always wins out over form.
Gerben Mulder (NL, 1972) is a self-made artist. An autodidact and painter pur sang. Mulder works intuitively and is never limited to one medium or style. He always works on different series simultaneously. In terms of medium, they vary from canvas, collages on paper, gouaches and enormous murals (MOCA Tuscon, 2011) and in style from figurative to abstract. Always with a very clear signature of his own that speaks from all his work.
Tycho van Zomeren (NL, 1989) explores the border areas of perception, such as the changing moments in the twilight, where subjective interpretation is necessary to understand what is being seen. These paintings, which are both realistic and abstract, invite viewers to explore the relationship between their eyesight and their formation of meaning.