Opening Friday 7th of November 2025 17:00 – 21:00 07.11.2025 – 20.12.2025
Artist talk: Saturday 22 november 16:00 RSVP Diner Daan RSVP Friday 28 november - max 20 people Register through; [email protected] Finissage: Saturday 20 november 16:00 OOK MOOI! / ALSO NICE! Solo exhibition Daan den Houter
Frank Taal Galerie is proud to present the new solo exhibition by Daan den Houter. Following successful exhibitions recently in Sydney, Los Angeles, and Venice, the exhibition ‘OOK MOOI! / Also Nice!’ opens in Rotterdam on November 7. In this new STRIPES series, the mahogany with its natural grain has completely disappeared from a number of the works; he continues the process of milling, filling, and polishing until it is visually filled. Whereas previously the mahogany forced him to make choices in relation to the hard plastic colours of the epoxy, in this series, he strives to minimise those choices. The result is a ‘painting-that-is-not-a-painting’; a work that exists within the medium. The image is created purely by carrying out the actions and eliminating the tiny ‘mistakes’ that constantly arise during the very laborious process. Each work is a celebration of colour and sometimes gives the impression of having been created using the Paint program on a PC. However, these works by Daan were not created by simply moving the cursor across the screen! In 2018, multidisciplinary conceptual artist Den Houter began a new oeuvre with a series of epoxy-in-wood pieces that he called The STRIPES series. This solo exhibition was titled: En Wat Nu? / So, What Now? The following exhibition was followed by NOU EN / So What (2021) and DIT DUS / So This (2023). We look forward to his new exhibition, once again featuring a delightfully unpretentious title: OOK MOOI! / ALSO NICE!