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24 February - 31 March 2007
Robert Wevers
Residue
paintings
Opening on Saturday 24 January 16-18 pm
Wednesday - Saturday 12-17 pm
1st Sunday of the month 14-18 pm
A year after his previous presentation (Helmholtz' Paradise) Wevers comes with a new series of paintings and works on paper.
Again the focus is on a symbiosis between photographic and painterly techniques.
Using the computer he combines nature photos, holiday snapshots and images and formulas from scientific books with scanned paint structures. This photographic phase results in an inkjet print. After attaching the print to an aluminum mound he begins with the painting phase. This consists of the application of countless thin layers of gesso and of thick syrupy acrylic emulsions.
The painting phase is needed to make the light within the work tangible. A painting both reflects and receives light, and as opposed to a photo it has a plastic presence.
Wevers needs both these elements: the detail of photography and the reflection of light that is inherent to painting. He has gone through many stages in his career: photography, 'fine' painting, photography again and, ultimately, the present combination.
The title 'Residue' refers to a series of twenty works on paper which have their origin in an educational archive of transparencies such as were used in primary schools in the seventies.
Under the name 'man and world' the young student was educated by word and image. These images are now a residue of times long past.
Through the many references to water, wind and snow the present show has a wintery nature. From his studio in Almen (in the middle of the country) Wevers walks through the surrounding fields and takes pictures of images that strike him. There is a painting of a hollow tree trunk he keeps running into and the trunk itself, residue of what once was a proud tree, will be part of the exhibition.
Wevers thus presents his vision of the world with an art form combining photography and painting and goes so far as to include a real object of the inspiration that he finds in nature.
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