Initially from May 19 – medio September 2020, but has been postponed to 2021

Spatial work in the Monastery Garden of the Elburg Museum during the whole season, in the frame of the Vestingval Elburg in May 2021.

Website Vestingval Elburg

Sculpture Garden, Leonard Wübbena, Wittmund, Germany

The exhibition refers to the title of Barnett Newman’s Who`s afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue. This statement challenges the relationship between sculptures and paintings. Newman assumes that a sculpture is three-dimensional, expansive and creative and has little to do with color. Painting is two-dimensional and actually unthinkable without color. Is a sculptor afraid of color? The material-related surface of a sculpture emphasizes its spatiality. Does color disturb the shape? The exhibition is intended to illustrate the field of tension between pure and colored sculptures by way of interesting examples.

I will participate with this new sculpture.

This year that we enjoy 75 years of freedom, the National Artists Society De Ploegh in Amersfoort celebrates its 75th anniversary. This is observed by four exhibitions, slightly adjusted in time due to the current corona problems.

75 jaar de Ploegh flyer

September 26 – November 8
– Gallery De Ploegh, with work from its own members | Website De Ploegh
– Museum Flehite, under the title ‘Freedom = Imagination’ | Website Flehite Museum
– Eemland Archive, with original works from former Ploegh members
October 22 – November 8
– Rietveld Pavilion de Zonnehof, under the title ‘The Artist’s Soul Movements’

In honour of its 25th anniversary, De Ploegh has published an anniversary book with work from all its members. This book can be ordered for € 29.95 (subscription price € 25.00) at De Ploegh in Amersfoort.

August 15 – September 27
Gallery Beeldschoon | De Pol | Overijssel Province

Gallery Beeldschoon

January 12 – March 8

De Ploegh | Amersfoort

 

Flyer Graphic Exhibition 2020

 

 

Silence in time of turmoil
My explanation and interpretation of art refers, among other things, to how to connect new expressions with existing images. This not only indicates the advancing development of art, but also my antagonistic experience of the arts. Assimilation of modern, sober forms with romantic expressions of art could result in an interesting synergy: a new pattern that scours, though nevertheless could be well-balanced. The result is, so to speak a new layer of which the total is more than the sum of the individual components. That I am trying in my spatial work, but also in this etching: capturing the silence in our time of turmoil.

November 24 – 2020 January 5

For the second time De Ploegh has organised a Wintersalon with work from 31 artists. Just like the salons of old in Paris the gallery will be filled from plinth to ceiling with pieces of art.

Flyer wintersalon 2019

October 2019 – October 2020

My two sculptures are located at Logement & Gasterij Frederiksoord. This location is part of the KunstRondje of 49 km in the area of ​​the Free Colonies of Benevolence, a unique area of Dutch history located in Drenthe, Friesland and Overijssel provinces.

Iron Man (1996)
This work work shows a person, a man, staring into the distance. As a person of iron, he stands still with his eyes on the horizon. The art is anything but ice cold, but requires a sharp and steadfast look at reality. That view indicates how wide and limitless art is.

Internal conflict of an artist (2019)
This artwork was originally created in honour of the 200-year birthday of the North German writer of realistic novels Theodor Fontane. It brings together in abstract form his sympathy for human freedom and freedom of expression on the one hand, and conventions and moral leadership on the other. The shape of the work is vaguely reminiscent of a person who raises the glass of freedom in one hand, while the other hand embraces a sword-shaped object that symbolises coercion. The colours are tailored to these symbols: red for a warm, possibly revolutionary gesture, light blue for a neutral consideration, and dark blue for cool repression.

Gallery Beeldschoon