A group exhibition with 13 artists and quotes how their work refers to the title. Here some of them:
Andrea Radai: Wunderbaum
Intrigued by the idea that (when material does not disappear but only changes shape) I am still breathing the same 'air' used by other painters before me, I made the Wunderbaum series. By referring to well-known works, I investigate the role of the (commercial) cliché. At the same time known and unknown is the question of how an image of a detail by Rembrandt or Richter relates to the original. Is the smell in our car what pine trees really smell like? Do we actually want that?
Daphne van de Velde: Quixotic
In this digital age, more and more barriers are being put up to hide vulnerability. But isn't showing your vulnerability more natural than showing our polished masks? Quixotic visualizes the courage to dare to dream and the courageous transition to showing the vulnerability needed for contact and intimacy.
Anya Janssen: Little Sister
Ik ben een verhalenverteller. Een collector of souls. Verhalen over ontmoetingen, ‘meant to be’. Over veelal jonge mensen die zich op een crossroad bevinden: ik kruip onder hun huid en leef een tijdje met ze mee. Zowel zelfbewust als kwetsbaar, vertegenwoordigen ze een hoopvolle toekomst in een tijd vol onzekerheden.”
Johan Clarysse: 'status quo isn't the way to go'
The work 'status quo isn't the way to go' alludes to a meeting of men in power who come together and discuss. Something important is about to happen or nothing important has happened, but the further context is unclear. The white lines on the canvas that connect certain figures can be seen as possible coalition lines or lines of communication. But in the first instance those lines are a visual intervention, which form a geometric figure and make the image more exciting. They structure the surface and literally and figuratively make the image more layered.
Terry Thompson: Vesalius studies
The drawings in the 'Vesalius' series are based on anatomical studies from the 16th century by Andreas Vesalius, often referred to as 'the father of modern anatomy'. His 'De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem' laid the foundation for the next generations. The way the body is stripped down layer by layer in his illustrations is both transformative for the human form and its aesthetics. Horrible but also powerfully beautiful. My drawings take Vesalius's illustrations as a starting point for a series in their own personal visual language.
Theo Kuijpers: Painting from memory
I can't paint what I see.
So I don't need to travel for that.
But what I paint always seems to me, and more and more, the memory.
It is the memory that creates images.
And it is traveling, leaving and coming home that creates memories.