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The exhibition of drawings very asherbovenkerkbrandenburgvaneedenpalmesakic was conceived about a year ago when one of the gallery artists, Marcel van Eeden, who lives in Berlin and The Hague, approached his German colleague Achim Sakic about a group show of works on paper.
They invited four other artists to participate: Dan Asher, Manon Bovenkerk, Marc Brandenburg and Thomas Palme.
This is the second of the series of exhibitions of drawings named 'very' that Marcel van Eeden has created for various galleries that he is connected with.
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 Dan Asher (1947 / New York and Cologne) moves between associative-narrative scrawls and a non-representational idiom. His drawing is related to writing. The groping-thinking hand sometimes breaks loose from its repetitious movement and one rough stroke may mark the gesture.
Line becomes form when, in a moment of compression and concentration, a weeping little face emerges.
z.t.
1995
ballpoint on paper
40 x 30 cm |
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 Manon Bovenkerk (1971 / Rotterdam) focuses on ambiguity. It is seen in her charcoal drawings through dark fields of tension, ominous architecture, migrations of the soul and metamorphoses. Her work shows a preoccupation with passion and conflict in a setting of horror; to this goal she uses the imagery of comics, graphic novels and film scenes.
Night of the hunter
2005
charcoal on paper
24 x 19 cm |
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 Marc Brandenburg (1965 / Berlin, childhood in Texas) combines a personal mythology with the icons of pop culture. His drawings are inhabited not only by models, hooligans, fetishes and plastic toys, but also by geometric shapes. Violence, racism, daily politics and sometimes his own position as a homosexual black German provide him with his motivation.
Untitled
2006
pencil on paper |
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 Marcel van Eeden (1965 / Den Haag and Berlin) began, in 1993, an endless series of drawings in black pencil, portraying the decades before the year of his birth, in an obsessive endeavour to claim times past.
Untitled
2006
black pencil on paper
19 x 28 cm |
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 Thomas Palme (1967 / Cologne) questions social values and standards in his strong pencil images that unite Eros and holiness, love and death, sometimes evoking an Art Brut atmosphere. His work presents skulls and signs of the cross in almost obsessive repetition.
Van Der Bylt exploration
2004
potlood op papier
65 x 60 cm |
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 Achim Sakic (1965/ Freiburg im Breisgau) portrays a wondrous world, in grey graphite, of objects, bodies and shapes shown on glass panels and pedestals or in rarefied show windows, in a style that floats from realism to surrealism and abstraction.
In opposition to the images, one forever sees space serving as a counterpoint.
Untitled
2005
pencil on paper
44 x 33 cm |
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