Ton Kraayeveld (1955) presently shows works at Galerie Helder.
It is not a big exhibition.
There are four more or less monumental works, a few smaller paintings and some drawings, but their great quality makes well up for their small number.
The exhibition seems to be composed around the four bigger works of which each shows a different aspect of Kraayeveld’s art.
The drawings appear to tell quite a different story.
Where the paintings are quite controlled, the drawings have a more expressive outlook.
Some of them are re-workings of (much) older drawings.
However, when looking at them closely, they show the same idea of constantly balancing between order and chaos, both in their compositions and in their ideas.
In Kraayeveld’s works there may be artistic and literary connotations of the modern and postmodern world, with sometimes peculiar contradictions.
In Kraayeveld’s works these contradictions translate into compositional contradictions, which gives them a slight sense of absurdism.
This is a compact showcase of Kraayeveld’s wonderful artistry.
Be sure to go and see it, as this is the last week of the exhibition.
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Contents of all photographs courtesy to Ton Kraayeveld and to Galerie Helder, Den Haag.
Bertus Pieters
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