“Unmöglich scheint immer die Rose,
Unbegreiflich die Nachtigall.”
From: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, West-östlicher Divan (West-Eastern Diwan), Stuttgart 1819, p. 126
Tobias Gerber (1961) and Diederik Gerlach (1956) are presenting their works at the moment at Galerie Maurits van de Laar.
Gerber shows plaster works and videos while Gerlach shows paintings and drawings.
Both share a link with both Germany and the Netherlands, and with memory and remembrance.
Although their works are quite different, there is a resemblance in their fine sense of humour and in the way they avoid any sentimentality.
They don’t want to recreate a better past, instead .they both seem to have a deep understanding of the past being very much, so to say, the ‘organism’ that builds the present.
However, there is a lot of mystery between the present and the past and each work shows the absurdity of remembrance itself, rather amplifying the mystery than solving it.
Well, after all, what else can one do?
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Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag.
Bertus Pieters
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Mooie tekst, Bertus veel dank !
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