Landschap en Herinnering

Landschap en Herinnering

Celine van den Boorn en Olphaert den Otter

9 mei- 6 juni

Opening za 9 mei 18.00-20.00, food and drinks will be served
The exhibition will be opened by Esmee Postma, recensent, writer

Nieuw Charlois
Huismanstraat 30
Rotterdam
Open from Thu-Sat 10- 5 pm

The opening will be performed by Esmee Postma, reviewer of modern and contemporary visual art for De Volkskrant. She reviews exhibitions, profiles artists, and identifies trends within the arts. Additionally, she writes for various art magazines and serves as a publications editor at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam. She will talk with the two artists about the works in the show.

Céline van den Boorn paints over the people in the images she uses. They literally disappear from the frame and are absorbed into the surrounding landscape, which suddenly takes center stage.

Olphaert den Otter does not even paint the people. In his work, only the landscapes remain, which do bear the traces of what people have done there.

Both artists take current images from the news as their starting point. The usually unsettling subject, with the human as the protagonist, disappears in their paintings through their intervention, while traces of human presence remain subtly visible. Strangely enough, the absence of people does not make the works empty. On the contrary, the very absence leads to an intuitive search by the viewer. And this search raises questions. What is not visible makes the works more complex and layered. The viewer has a task: to take a stand, to empathize, to fill in the blanks, perhaps even: self-examination.