The exhibition will be opened Saturday 18 November 5.00 by Dutch writer and art critic
Hans den Hartog Jager.
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Releasers is a term used by the famous American biologist Ed Wilson. In the renowned Tinbergen lecture earlier this year in Holland he spoke of the 'unity of knowledge', resulting from the evolution of the human instinct.
According to his theory, the inherent emotion in art is transferred to the viewer by 'releasers', a word used by researchers of animal behaviour: simple incentives evoking a response which is fixed in the brain. This would lead to a conditioning, to a certain degree, of people's reactions on images.
When invited by Wetering Galerie to compose an exhibition, Frans Wisman saw it as a chance to test Wilson's theory.
But the title 'Releasers' is not intended to give the exhibition an intellectual charge. That would not do justice to the chosen works, which after all were not made with that goal. However, the theme is an adequate one to direct and focus the attention of the observer.
The five artists that he has invited work in different disciplines and in his opinion their works have a connection in so far as they refer to primordial images.
These may be archetypes or symbols (the surrealist cupboards of the Belgian artist Hannes van Severen and the collages of Freya Wisman), or references to the founders of contemporary art (as shown in the paintings of Derk Thijs).
Ruud Kuijer has a number of concrete sculptures composed of the shapes of objects of daily use. Elsbeth Tijssen in her photographs searches for timelessness in the present.
They will be confronted with some other contemporary artists that Frans Wisman, with the gallery owner, chose from his collection - works from various periods by Marlene Dumas, Günther Förg (G), Rob van Koningsbruggen, Raoul de Keyser (B), Richard Allen Morris (USA), Elizabeth Peyton (USA), David Reed and James Welling.
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  Ruud Kuijer
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  Hannes van Severen
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  Derk Thijs
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  Elsbeth Tijssen
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  Freya Wisman
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