20.09.2025 – 01.11.2025
Duo Solo exhibition “Impressions of Home” by Vincent Zanni and “Just Flowers” by Gerben Mulder.
Artist Talk Róman Kienjet, art historian, writer and curator, with Vincent Zanni, Thursday evening, October 17, from 18:30 – 21:00 uur
Wouter van den Eijkel in Galleryviewer Magazine on
Impressions of Home – Vincent Zanni
https://galleryviewer.com/nl/article/3154/zien-wat-het-huis-ziet-vincent-zannis-impressions
Vincent Zanni (b. 1995, Geneva, Switzerland) approaches photography as a physical and temporal act. Using processes like cyanotype, oil printing, and camera obscura, he creates works that resist reproducibility, existing as fragile traces of light. Rooted in his family home and garden, Zanni’s practice explores memory, what is seen, what fades, and what is lost.
With The Last Impressions of Home, the artist presents his family house as if it were an extended family member, one that has quietly held stories within its walls. Now facing imminent destruction, the house becomes both collaborator and subject, working with the artist in a last goodbye.
Zanni transformed the house into a giant pinhole camera obscura, with each room acting as a camera. Sheets of light-sensitive paper were placed on the walls, and through a tiny pinhole, the outside world was projected inside, creating large-scale negative images of the garden, neighbourhood, and the house itself.
The process was both technically demanding and deeply personal. Every window had to be covered, the kitchen converted into a darkroom, and the bathroom into a wash station. Working in total darkness inside an empty house that had witnessed over a century of family life, Zanni experienced the space as suspended in time. As light entered through the pinhole, the house seemed to come alive again, its walls transformed into canvases for lived memories and echoes from the family archive.
The resulting photographs are imperfect: creased, uneven, marked by fingerprints and chance. These traces highlight the intimacy and authenticity of the work and emphasize the collaboration between artist and subject. By presenting the images as negatives, Zanni draws our attention to what is usually hidden: the photograph as both presence and absence, the print we see, the negative that quietly holds its trace, and the fleeting moment of light that produced it.
The Last Impressions of Home is not only about documenting a house, but about holding onto what it meant as a home. It builds a fragile visual bridge between personal memory and collective history, inviting the audience to reflect on the spaces that shape us and the traces they leave behind.
Alongside, Zanni presents two related series that expand its themes. Saved Fragments emerged from the larger project La Maison, in which cyanotype prints of the house were submerged in water and slowly faded, echoing the house’s demolition and the erosion of memory. The fragments that remained capture a suspended moment between presence and loss, fragile reminders of what endures when a place and its stories disappear. Blue Cedar turns to the house’s great-grandfather’s tree, using fallen branches to create charcoal pigment. In this series, the object and the subject are one: the tree itself provides the material to create its own image. Here, nature becomes both witness and participant, carrying memory forward even as the house faces disappearance.
Together, these works trace the delicate line between presence and absence, permanence and impermanence. They invite reflection on the spaces we inhabit, the objects and lives they hold, and the quiet traces left behind when they disappear. Through different techniques and materials, Zanni shows how memory can be fragile and enduring, intimate and collective. An archive of light, loss, and care that lingers long after a place has passed.
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Vincent Zanni studied photography at the Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey (Switzerland) and Fine Art Photography at the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, where he graduated in 2023 with the Drempelprijs (Honours). He is the winner of the RM Photo Award and was nominated for the RM Young Blood Award.'
GERBEN MULDER - Just Flowers, a curated show by Frank Taal.
Frank Taal Gallery is pleased to present Just Flowers, a solo exhibition by Dutch-born artist Gerben Mulder (b.1972, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), marking a rare return to a subject that has been central to his practice: the flowers.
The exhibition unfolds in two distinct registers. Along an eight-meter wall, three intimate black-and-white works—Mulder’s Night Bloom paintings—offer a restrained and nocturnal meditation on form and gesture. Conceived during late-night sessions in the gallery space in the summer of 2020, these works capture a raw immediacy and a heightened sensitivity to light, shadow, and rhythm. On either side of the gallery cube, large-scale, vibrantly colored canvases expand this dialogue, bringing the flower into full bloom through bold painterly intensity and compositional dynamism.
Mulder’s decision to revisit floral imagery recalls his pivotal 2010 exhibition in New York at Marisa Newman Projects, which received critical recognition from Roberta Smith of The New York Times. That moment proved decisive in propelling his career onto the international stage. Today, Mulder’s work is represented by established galleries in Brazil and New York and is held in major private, corporate, and museum collections worldwide.
For Just Flowers, Mulder embraces a deliberately minimal presentation that underscores both the fragility and endurance of this timeless motif. His contribution also resonates as a gesture of collegiality and support: responding to curator Frank Taal’s invitation, Mulder chose to accompany the debut solo exhibition of Vincent Zanni, aligning his own pared-down black-and-white works with the emergence of a new artistic voice.