In the present exhibition at Quartair, painting is identified with space, knowledge, the act of painting and the self.
In fact this would apply to any discipline in visual and other arts, but of course painting is one of the basic and most traditional of the visual arts.
That doesn’t mean that all works on show are paintings in a sense that they are pieces of canvas or panels with pasty pigments on them.
For instance André Kruysen’s works are sculptures and Delphine Courtillot makes ceramics.
Even Ilona Plaum’s painting-like works are in fact prints and in one of her works Wieteke Heldens doesn’t use paint but a marker.
Indeed the way paint is used by the other artists is very personal and is very well presented in this spacious exhibition.
Quartair, with its columns, is not always an easy space to create effective exhibitions but this one makes very good use of all sightlines and there is a very good dialogue between sculpture and painting, or rather between the spacial and the flat.
As for its composition, arrangement, variety and quality this is certainly one of the best exhibitions in Quartair.
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Content of all photographs courtesy to all artists and Quartair, den Haag
Bertus Pieters
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