In Moments, the tangible and the fleeting meet.
Sculptor Els Kingma and painter Piet Rogie share a desire for stillness — for that instant in which form and feeling coincide. Each, in their own material world, searches for the essence of what can be made visible once the superfluous is stripped away.
For Kingma, it is the stone itself that speaks. Her torsos, legs, and heads breathe softness and concentration. She is guided by the structure and color of marble, by the resistance and poetry of the material. From the raw stone she distills human fragments that remain recognizable yet never literal — moments of stillness in stone.
Rogie turns his gaze toward painting as an inexhaustible source. In a continual process of reinvention, he explores what paint, gesture, and color still have to offer him. His paintings arise from the urge to move beyond the explaining mind, to look with the eyes alone. By sidestepping reality, he seeks to transform it — into something essential, pure, and unfiltered.
In this duo exhibition, their worlds touch in the silence between form and meaning.
Both artists reveal that a moment — whether carved from stone or painted in color — can hold an intense presence.