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Saturday, June 10 from 7 to 10 pm
We celebrate our first year, please join us at the gallery for an open festive night!
Ragpicker
through June 17
installation views | viewing room
The Daniëls painting above serves as a loose metaphor for fresh catch and competition in the art market (and our first year as a gallery) from a very Dutch perspective. It was chosen as one starting point in our current show Chiffonnier / Ragpicker — an exhibition in dialogue between two Dutch artists: Bert Frings (Rotterdam, NL) and Bas Louter (Los Angeles, CA).
Excerpt from an interview between the artists:
BF: What does the work of René Daniëls mean to you and especially his work Hollandse Nieuwe?
BL: I got to know the work of René Daniëls when I was 18 before commencement at the Art Academy. He has always been my favorite Dutch artist. I love his work for its directness and economy in paint. There is a free flow of ideas that doesn't feel like a strategy.
The Hollandse Nieuwe title refers to the first new Dutch herring of the season. Restaurants tend to pay top dollar to get the first barrel. There is a comment or critique about the art world in that painting: the predictability of galleries always looking for new, young and hot marketable work and artists.
Last year I made a contemporary version of that work and then after that this subject of fish swimming evolved into something more personal; the works represent my upbringing and history in The Netherlands, growing up close to the beach, the dunes and the stark landscape of Northern Holland.
full interview
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