4 June through 2 July 2005
Loes van der Horst
works on paper
Elizabeth de Vaal
paintings
opening Saturday 4 June 16.00 - 18.00 pm
Wednesday - Saturday 12-17 pm
1st Sunday of the month 14-17 pm
Loes van der Horst (1919) had her training as an artist at the Kunstgewerbe Schule in Vienna (1935-1938), where she was influenced by Bauhaus and Wiener Werkstätte, and finished her studies at the Royal Academy in The Hague (1938-1941). She was awarded several art prizes, the last being the Judith Leijster prize (1990).
Having made her name with public and private commissions for spacious and daring three-dimensional textile works, she decided from 1990 onwards to work with aluminium and steel.
It goes without saying that all these activities were accompanied by countless drawings. A selection of these drawings will be exhibited.
The occasion for the exhibition (a first in the gallery for Loes van der Horst) is a book about her work, "Loes van der Horst. Depicted space", that will be presented to its author Max van Rooy during the opening on the 4th of June.
Simultaneously, the Rijksmuseum Twenthe will show a series of her large works in ink on Chinese paper from the nineties and an installation "The imaginary line".
Loes van der Horst works >>
Elizabeth de Vaal (1950) will show her new paintings.
The title of the painting shown on the left "The Greek and the irrational" reflects the core of her new works: the blending of an ideal and every day reality.
She need not go far to wonder about the variety in reality: around the block and even next door to her studio in the outskirts of The Hague the West-African Community, a Mosk and a Hindu Tempel give her ample food for thought about differences in cultures.
Her reaction to all this is shown in the curious mix of painterly and decorative elements within her new paintings, in which she passes no judgments on what is banal or elevated.
Elizabeth de Vaal works >>
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