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12 november - 17 december 2005
Robert Wevers
Helmholtz' paradise
opening Saturday 12 November 16 - 18 pm
Wednesday - Saturday 12-17 pm
1st Sunday of the month 14-18 pm
Robert Wevers has long made realistic paintings in the old Dutch Masters tradition, using photography for a helping hand.
From 2002 he has embraced the new digital printing devices, in order to approach photography from a painterly point of view. The inkjetprint was most suitable for his aim.
In 2003 a large number of these works, referring as always to his experience of nature, was shown in the exhibition 'De Idioot' ('The Idiot') in Deventer's Bergkerk, under the auspices of the Hannema-de Stuers Foundation.
But eventually the immaterial nature of photography proved too thin for Wevers and painting reentered the scene, in his experiments with superimposed layers of inkjet and acrylic paint.
In the computer he now combines images of nature, holiday snapshots and pictures from science books with scanned paint structures and, finally, with thick, sirupy acrylic emulsions.
The heavy etching paper of the inkjetprints has remained, but is now glued on to double honeycomb cardboard, to give it the required solidity.
Through its photographic origin, its refined structures and its layered surface the new work has acquired a strong pictorial structure.
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About the title of this exhibition 'Helmholtz' paradise' (derived from an essay by the Dutch author Gerrit Krol 1987):
'Hermann Ludwig von Helmholtz, a German physicist from the 19th century, was fascinated all of his life by the notion that the world is smaller than we believe it to be. Why, thought Helmholtz, don't we say that the world is exactly as big as we see it. Well yes, maybe the world isn't even any larger than our own body. Maybe there aren't any distances at all. Someone does not seem to grow smaller by walking away from us, oh no, he does become smaller and therefore it seems as if he is walking away from us. And the same goes for him; his world remains just as big and it is we who in his eyes become smaller. And so there are as many worlds as there are persons, and animals, and all these worlds are similar in size.'
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