Final weekend, I visited the brand new Newhouse Gallery area on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, the place the gallery offered CAN Ibiza: The After. The exhibition introduced a number of works from CAN Ibiza again to Amsterdam, providing a second alternative to see the works in a extra intimate gallery setting. The present featured works by Julie Haverkamp, Claire Witteveen, Ground Merjenburgh, Allard Warmelink, Willem van Hooff and Roosje van Donselaar.
Newhouse Gallery is a non-public gallery in Amsterdam working on the intersection of artwork and design. The gallery brings collectively visible artwork, images, collectible and classic design, with a give attention to artists whose work is outlined by materiality, spatial consciousness and a robust sense of authorship. // picture above We Are Wow Makers //
// Portray Simona Frigerio / Vases by Willem van Hooff // Picture vosgesparis //
The gallery area is designed to offer the works room whereas protecting an intimate and reflective environment. It additionally features a backyard home, not too long ago painted with We Are Wow Makers Stucco Paint in color Miami, and the ceiling completed in Wall Gloss Paint in Comporta.
Quite than separating artwork and design, Newhouse locations works in relation to one another, creating exhibitions and environments the place area, objects and other people turn out to be a part of the expertise. The gallery was based in 2021 by Mick Nieuwenhuis and has a specific give attention to supporting and showcasing Dutch artists.
// Wall sculpture by Julie Haverkamp / Picture and wall color We Are Wow Makers //
// Picture Newhouse Gallery //
The Artists | CAN Ibiza: The After
The exhibition introduced collectively six artists working throughout portray, sculpture and design. Under is a better take a look at the artists and their work.
Claire Witteveen (1983, Naarden) pictured above, works in oil on canvas and paper. Her summary work transfer between management and spontaneity, with compositions that stability construction and intuition. Her work explores the area between thought and feeling, utilizing paint to specific issues which are tough to place into phrases.
// Picture Newhouse Gallery //
Ground Merjenburgh
Ground Merjenburgh works with supplies by permitting them to partially decide the ultimate kind. Gravity, stress and the resistance of a cloth turn out to be a part of her course of, slightly than one thing she tries to regulate fully. Her sculptures present traces of motion and deformation, making the method of constructing an vital a part of the completed work.
// Wall sculptures by Julie Haverkamp / Vases by Willem van Hooff / Picture vosgesparis //
Julie Haverkamp
Julie Haverkamp (1997, Rotterdam) is a Dutch painter working between figuration and abstraction. Her work are made with broad brushstrokes and deep, layered colors, typically mixed with supplies comparable to sand, linen and cotton. This provides the surfaces a tactile high quality, making the work really feel virtually bodily. Since transferring to Ibiza, the island’s gentle, sea and surrounding panorama have turn out to be an vital affect on her work and color palette.
Willem van Hooff
Willem van Hooff (1992) works with forgotten methods, supplies and merchandise, giving them a brand new life by means of up to date objects. His method is uncooked and intuitive, with a robust give attention to how an object is made and the way it features. For Van Hooff, object combines operate, visible presence and character, one thing he feels is usually lacking from the perfection of mass-produced objects.
// Picture vosgesparis //
Roosje van Donselaar
Roosje van Donselaar (1986, Haarlem) combines working with supplies with analysis into historical past, myths, rituals and tales from totally different cultures. She presently works with clay and gold, exploring what these supplies can do by means of an intuitive course of. Her analysis typically turns into a place to begin for the work, however the sculptures depart room for various interpretations.
// Picture Newhouse Gallery //
Allard Warmelink
Allard Warmelink (1986, Rotterdam) works between design and sculpture, creating objects based mostly on acquainted kinds and references from design historical past. He reworks these kinds by means of adjustments in proportion, materials and construction, decreasing them to their important parts. The ensuing items are each purposeful and sculptural, with a uncooked and architectural high quality.
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