The exhibition 'Peers and Pairs' brings together works by sixteen artists who emerged over a period of 80 years. The works are shown in pairs. The makers - from young to old - are concerned with contemporary art as it comes and goes.
Recently graduated artists such as Bert McLean (1998) and David Kloosterboer (2000) are experiencing their first exhibition in a gallery. They obviously make work that belongs to this time, but they are not the only ones. In the 1990s, Kristjàn Gudmundsson made minimalist large wall works using pencil fillings. This was appropriate at the time, but is seen as old-fashioned today. In 'Peers and Pairs' a work (1993) by Gudmundsson hangs next to a glass panel by Siegfried Cremer from 1964. The pairing of their work looks natural despite the generation gap. In this way pictures of generations are created that are different from each other, but also not.
So, what is time when it comes to contemporaries.