3 September through 2 October 2005
Sander van Deurzen
paintings
opening Saturday 3 September 16-18 pm
Amsterdam Gallery Weekend 3 and 4 September 12-18 pm
Wednesday - Saturday 12-17 pm
1st Sunday of the month 14-18 pm
In January of 2004 Sander van Deurzen, one of the winners of the Royal Prize for Painting in 2003, had his first exhibition in this gallery.
His paintings of past years have shown banal motifs, such as MacDonald's 'Fast Food Toys' and the
'Game Over' images drawn from computer games, that were elaborated into spectacular, colorful still lifes.
These had gradually turned more and more into landscapes, always focused on the transitoriness of life.
Van Deurzen rounded off this series with compositions where the landscapes evolve into apocalyptical explosions.
And now, his theme remains the transitory, but the subject matter has moved to advertising images in which beauty is reduced to lust.
This is represented in his portraits of female models and in violent 'Lustmord' scenes, inspired by the German painter Otto Dix.
In them, he mixes the sweet colors of his palette with the images of maimed young women.
There is a change in his technique: he now employs only the three 'primary' colors red, yellow and blue, which when mixed produce black, the color of decay.
At the same time, by running the colors and by blurring the images, Sander van Deurzen has created a number of nearly abstract works.
This blurring of the representation has also lead to the fleeting characher of his paintings.
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