| 2010-07-04 | | | 18 September. LOCUSLUX AMS |
| Digital Solitude LOCUSLUX Brouwersgracht 151 Amsterdam. 18 September - 15 October 2010 Jaap de Vries\\\' solo exhibition will mark the opening of LOCUSLUX Gallery at Brouwersgracht 151 in Amsterdam. Opening: Saturday 18 September 2010. | ||
| 2010-07-04 | | | 17 Juli. VERFZUCHT # 3 AMSTERDAM |
| Erotica en pornografie - daartussen gaapt een diepe afgrond. Hoe anders zijn passie en vluchtige aandacht wel niet? Pornografie gaat niet uit van passionele aandacht voor het medium, maar van gebruik van het medium. En het gaat - zoals bekend - meestal niet uit van liefdevolle aandacht voor de mensen die het als in een arena betreden. Erotica steekt heel anders in mekaar. Het is ingebed in de passionele aandacht voor het materiaal waaruit de voorstelling tevoorschijn treedt (een onderschatte vorm van erotiek) en de seksuele dimensie van het onderwerp verleidt de kijker vervolgens tot aandacht voor de manier waarop het gedaan is. In Erotica is de maker aanwezig, in pornografie niet. In erotica spreekt de tijdloze passie, in pornografie de meest vluchtige aandacht en het verdampen van de tijd. Verfzucht #3 (derde in een reeks tentoonstellingen op grond van een pleidooi op deze site) toont verschillende media en verschillende makers - in een poging om het intrigerende verschil tussen erotica en pornografie (en verschillende invalshoeken van het seksuele prisma) letterlijk in beeld te brengen. deelnemende kunstenaars Jan De Beus, olie op doek Anthony Lister, gemengde techniek Marie-Jose Robben, olie op doek Feike Otto Van Der Zee, tekeningen Jan Van Breda, fotografie Jaap De Vries, aquarel op aluminium opening 17 Juli tentoonstelling gedurende vier weekenden zaterdag 17 en zondag 18 Juli zaterdag 24 Juli en zondag 25 Juli zaterdag 30 Juli en zondag 1 augustus tijdens Gay Parade Amsterdam: zaterdag 7 augustus en zondag 8 augustus openingstijden: 13.00-18.00 Boven\'s Galerie, Kerkstraat 276, Amsterdam | ||
| 2010-05-30 | | | July 1st - August 7th, 20 HOXTON SQUARE PROJECTS, London |
| After his first British show at 20 Hoxton Square in 2007, Dutch artist Jaap de Vries returns to the space to present a new body of work, ‘Cut’. Jaap de Vries will be exhibiting work made in his highly individual medium, watercolour on aluminium. In a unique process, Vries takes the traditional technique of watercolour and combines it with an aluminium offset plate designed for printing. By its very nature, the aluminium plate actively rejects water allowing Vries’ work an unpredictable element of chance as the pigment meanders its way in unexpected turns across the picture surface. The technique, which contrasts the tense solidity of machine-made sheet metal with the yielding, thin fluidity of watercolour, has been further developed by the artist. This exhibition marks a shift from his previously muted and sombre palette to a more vibrant and colourful expression. A new intensity of colour only serves to further underline the disparity between the silvery, inert surface of the metallic ground and the expressive vitality of his painted subject. This sense of duality is sustained in the subject matter itself. Eerily soulful, Vries’ work continues to be an ethereal yet pointed comment on the human condition. In this exhibition this comment has been honed; it is at once strong and subtle. Jaap de Vries presents us with the very core of humanity, showing us a visceral world of ‘the shadows within us.’ Through the beauty of his glimmering surfaces, he holds up an uncomfortable mirror to our deep-set impulses: our sexuality, our vulnerability and our innate capacity for violence. For Vries, brought up as a Calvinist, the acts of making and viewing art allow us to see what we are not supposed to see and think what we are not supposed to think launching us into a cycle of guilt and atonement as we are confronted with our ‘bad conscience’. In Vries’ work, process, form and content have become increasingly aligned. Whether it be his series of small voyeuristic images of erotica, expressionistic portraits, his diptych of an abandoned crime scene or the deathly wash of a tsunami, his pieces appear to be delicately rendered with a highly sensitive line and a gentle wash of liquid pigment. A closer inspection, however, reveals battered surfaces and pummelled metal, then flooded with silky watercolour left to make its own way through these inflicted crevices. The acts of hammering, incising, scratching and the pitted, worked patches that remain, reflect the clandestine violence of his subject matter and the jolting discomfort felt by the viewer as Vries opens a window ajar onto their deepest urges and fears. Jaap de Vries’ work, more than ever, is the sparkling, beautiful bearer of dark truths. His paintings are a stunning testament to Francis Bacon’s mantra: ‘Images can shatter the old order leaving nothing the same as before.’ Notes to Editors Private view: 1st July 2010 Exhibition continues: 2nd July – 7th August 2010 About 20 Hoxton Square Projects Launched in 2007 by Alexander Dellal, 20 Hoxton Square Projects is a collaborative project space and a creative hub for independent projects. Since its inception the gallery has gained a reputation as a dynamic space, working with established artists, galleries and guest curators, whilst nurturing its own stable of artists in a progressive artistic environment. Exhibition Facts Opening Hours Tuesday– Friday: 11am-6pm First Thursdays: open until 9pm Saturday: 12pm– 6pm Location : 20 Hoxton Square Projects, London N1 6NT Tel : +44 (0)20 7729 2687 | ||
| 2010-05-10 | | | 26 - 30 May, ART AMSTERDAM |
| LOCUSLUX Gallery is pleased to announce it's participation in Art Amsterdam 2010.The gallery will present works by Jaap de Vries, Tim Breukers, Pascal Danz, Thomas Huyghe and Ben Young. RAI Exhibition Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. | ||
| 2010-03-26 | | | Colorfilia and deep painting, 8 and 9 May, Amsterdam |
| Zaterdag 8 mei en zondag 9 mei 12.00 -18.00 zie: www.verfhond.com Colorfilia and deep painting. First affordable art show of some signatories of ‘A plea for deep painting’,Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May 2010 12.00-18.00 Kerkstraat 276 Amsterdam at Boven’s Gallery. Opening on saturday 15.00 by collectioneur Bas Kuiper After 16.30 (sat): Lucie Stepanova plays cello (http://www.luciestepanova.cz/index_en.html) | ||
| 2010-03-13 | | | Jaap de Vries | solo exhibition | LOCUSLUX Brussels April 3 - May 15, 2010 |
| Jaap de Vries | solo exhibition | LOCUSLUX Brussels April 3 - May 15, 2010 New works in a solo show. Opening Saturday April 3 [12-18h]. Vernissage Wednesday April 21st, 18-22h. |