'Different Corners'
opening:
Saturday 22 February
3-6pm
‘Don’t let what others say or how the world looks now hold you back.’ ‘Follow your own path and explore what you find interesting.’ ‘You can make a difference with diverse ideas and find a way to look at the world.’ Four artists operate from different sources with different perspectives and techniques. Different Corners is an ode to freedom, how you as an individual shape your inner voice and in doing so bring new meaning to others and the world.
Gillian Bolton (NL 1996), 2024 graduate of the KABK, “paints his canvases with precise nuances of colour and repetition. He investigates the structural framework of grid systems. Within this framework, colours and shapes interact dynamically, conveying rhythm and tension to the viewer. Gillian’s work uses multiple layers of watercolour and oil paint, revealing a delicate relationship between structure, emotion, the urge for freedom and control. In his work he strives for visual harmony and communicates the path to get there”.
In the photographic work of Sabrina Charehbili (NL1992) often see a vast outdoor space in nature, where light and dark contrast strongly. Her characters in colourful robes play with shadow and movement. They are sometimes wrapped in carpets or stare into the distance. Her work is dreamy and fairy-like. As a child of a migrant, she discovered a wonderful exotic environment that she tries to approach from her contemporary view of the free world. Sabrina understands the art of introducing a new meaning in every image without it coming across as forced.
The photographic works from the series ‘Family Affairs’ by Nienke Elenbaas (NL 1966) have a high aesthetic value, with each image having a lot to say. They resemble stills from a narrative film, but at the same time seem to conceal something or be powerless to reveal the underlying. Each image is freed from its original context, such as the emotions of the present and the past. It is something personal that transcends universality. These stylized figures, frozen in movement, are imbued with an emotion, almost sacred and hopeful.
The monochrome paintings of Roï Elmaliah (NL 1989) have a calm and serene appearance. His choice of colours is often earthy. The approaches in oil paint are quite pasty. This work creates shadows and boundaries. You see his regular movement of the brush on the canvas, stripes ending exactly where they should. The relief reinforces the texture so that you experience that regular distance as self-evident; like the rhythm of breathing. It combines a touch of the sixties ZERO movement with something contemporary in allowing feeling into the creative process. Where the artist searches for symbiosis, for something of connection, there is more to see than it seems superficially.