We are delighted to invite you to the opening of our first exhibition of the new gallery season. It is an honour to begin with Peter Struycken with whom we have worked for more than 25 years. P. Struycken (The Hague, 1939) has been researching colour from the outset of his artistic career. Fascinated by the complexity of colour in the everyday world, which is visible to everyone, he looks at it without preconceived value judgement and, in his artwork, dedicates himself to studying its infinite variability, coherence and mutability.
As the title suggests, this exhibition focuses on colour changes in two and three dimensions, over the period from 1979 to 2024. They are visually unlimited spaces in which colours are ordered and changed using process algorithms. This produces astonishing visual images. Struycken devised this concept in 1976 and has used it throughout his entire oeuvre. In using algorithms so intrinsically to make work, Struycken is undeniably a pioneer, and unique.
The exhibition presents photographic works from 1979 and the early 1980s (FIELD 29, 9 phases and SHFT 30 and 31) that can be considered a small cross-section of an unlimited structure. At the centre is the renewed 1981 edition SHFT34, 30 screens with an in-built computer measuring about 10 x 10 cm, each showing different image sequences in an unlimited space for which Struycken used light to mix a palette of 256 colours. DISCS 2 1997/2014 is on view in the gallery’s rear space, and covers the entire wall.
For this exhibition, Struycken wrote an accompanying text for each work, which is available to visitors in the gallery.