Grand opening Solo expositie Gerard Verdijk : MEDITATIONS SmithDavidson Gallery Amsterdam, Thursday 2nd November: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Official opening : 6:15 PM By Drs. J.M. de Groot & P. Schoon (former director Dordrechts Museum) The exhibition can be visited from November 3 to January 13.
Leading up to Gerard Verdijk’s 90th birth year, SmithDavidson Gallery is excited to announce the new exhibition 'Mediations' which represents the Estate of post-war artist Gerard Verdijk. 'Meditations' explores the process of Gerard Verdijk’s later paintings and brings together twenty artworks by the artist from this period.
The exhibition shows the work of Gerard Verdijk from the last period of his life. His late paintings show a great restraint in minimalist compositions, yet they are filled with layered and sensuous color fields that fill the voids around solid objects and shapes. A duality materialised between concrete objects and the oppositional void that surrounds them; between the shadows and the objects that cast them.