Icons \ Shift
22.11.2018-22.12.2018
KNO
lab.space
@ Bulgakov Museum
Andreevskiy
Descent, 13
Kiev, 04070
Ukraine
Open Thursday – Tuesday 10 am -6 pm, closed on Wednesday
The exhibition ICONS \
SHIFT
brings
together works from four Dutch artists who are closely related to
each other and the Leiden based art initiative IS-projects. Involved
artists Iemke van Dijk, Henriëtte van 't Hoog, Jan maarten Voskuil
and Guido Winkler all make paintings, yet are interested in expanding
painting away from the two dimensional. The viewer's standpoint
matters. There is a shift from painting to object, although they are
still painters.
Iemke van Dijk (Wassenaar, 1969) lives and works as an artist in Leiden, the Netherlands and is co-founder of IS-projects. With printmaking as her background, her interest turned to making reliefs. Since 2010 she makes wall drawings and floor pieces that are basically trompe-l'oeil reliefs. Often site-specific. Iemke is interested in serendipity, yet deliberately sets rules for it to work. The work on show is part of a new series entitled “Circles and Squares”. The observer who understands that ovals represent circles will experience space and movement.
The
geometric abstract work of Henriëtte van ’t Hoog (Amsterdam, 1943)
often makes you lose your balance. She plays with the perspective of
cube-like forms, with their three-dimensionality, their color, and
light. When you walk along these objects, their forms change, their
perspective collapses. The reflecting paint on the back of the object
radiates its color on the wall. The reflection emphasizes its
spatiality and gives the thing a poetic connotation. Consequently,
the work of Henriëtte van ’t Hoog is at the same time concrete and
not concrete.
"In a world that is not clear, we have to make things clear." Building on the philosophies of Theo van Doesburg who promoted pure non-objective abstraction, Jan Maarten Voskuil (Arnhem, 1964) creates multi-dimensional works that bridge the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture. He expands the possibilities of painting by stretching linen on spatial constructed wooden frames. Rigorous mathematical principles govern his experiments, as does an ongoing conversation with the conventions of Minimalism, Hard-Edge painting and other modern schools of thought.
Guido
Winkler (Alblasserdam, 1969) works as an artist in Leiden, the
Netherlands. In a concise and precise style he makes paintings,
photographs, multiples and spatial installations that evoke
associations with architecture. For the viewer to experience space
and time and to study one's perception.
His wooden paintings are flat and have tapered sides. Like the other
selected artists, the work sits in between painting and
object.
Within
the context of art initiatives like KNO, IS-projects -It is what it
IS- is running business for over ten years. It has established more
than 30 exhibitions on various locations and in several combinations
internationally, that attracted in total over 180.000 visitors. In
2017, Iemke van Dijk and Guido Winkler were appointed as curators of
the Open Air Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden as well as the multi venue
exhibition Raakvlakken for Beelden in Leiden. The 2017 exhibitions
were being held within the frame of 'From Mondriaan to Dutch Design'
on the occasion of the centennial of De Stijl movement. De Stijl,
founded in Leiden by Theo van Doesburg in 1917.
Van
Doesburg predicted in his time that for the next phase of art
history, painting needed to make a transition into the third
dimension. Since long, a three dimensional painting would still be
called a sculpture. These artists show there is a way in
between.
The
KNO lab.space project is a program, that takes place at the Bulgakov
Museum in Kyiv. KNO -Kyiv Non Objective- has been established to
operate as a public organisation. Founded by Ukrainian artists
Tiberiy
Szilvashi,
Badri
Gubianuri,
Elena
Dombrovska
and Serhiy Popov, its aim is developing a platform for further
dialogue between contemporary reductive and non-objective artist
networks, internationally.
