Robert Zandvliet

Opening September 1, 1-3 pm

During the opening of Derk Thijs | The pond which I belong to with my imagination Sunday September 1 - 3 pm, you are invited to a walk through the exhibition with Bernice Nauta, in conversation with Derk Thijs. This walk will start at 2 pm.

Robert Zandvliet | Pink Moon | GRIMM London

For his first exhibition in the UK with GRIMM, Robert Zandvliet has developed a series of imagined landscapes that break down the archetype of his subject – a field, a moonrise, an empty road, a willow tree. These motifs echo art historical fragments, captured with an economic and gestural brushstroke that highlight the abstraction of the landscape into shape, form, light and shadow. The compositions balance the immediacy of the viewer’s experience with the slower resolution of the influence, ideas and history that underline the world of Zandvliet’s painting. His minimal approach shifts and merges foreground and background, subject and negative space, to reorient the viewer’s perception of depth and surface. Though nature acts as a catalyst for Zandvliet’s painting, the artist resists the impulse to translate the natural world through a realistic perspective. Instead, he deconstructs the elements of nature to their essence, seeking to capture what he describes as ‘an idea of landscape’. The resulting works fuse abstract and representational elements to reframe our perspective of the natural world. For Pink Moon, Zandvliet has experimented with scale and texture, adding oil to his egg tempera works to animate the surface of the painting. GRIMM represents the artist in London (UK), in close collaboration with Galerie Onrust in Amsterdam (NL). From Press Release GRIMM, London

VINCENTS BOOMWORTELS | Van GoghHuis | March 30 - September 2 2024

Artists depict the spot in Auvers-sur-Oise where Van Gogh made his last painting. In 2020, Wouter van der Veen discovered the spot in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise where Vincent van Gogh produced his last painting Boomwortels. The original roots of the Robinia pseudoacacia are still present here. The owners of this heritage site granted artists access to make studies of the original roots on site. Emmy Bergsma (1960) travelled there several times to draw. Robert Zandvliet (1970) and Sabina Timmermans (1984) went there and spent two days making sketches, which they then developed further. Timmermans in large drawn detail studies. Zandvliet produced a monumental quadriptych in monotype in color. Back in 1999, Zandvliet painted a canvas based on Tree Roots. This work from the collection of the AkzoNobel Art Foundation is also shown at the exhibition. As well as a large canvas by Diana Roig (1982) that she made after Van Gogh's last painting. As an introduction to the exhibition, the museum is running the documentary 'The "Boomwortels" cold case, on Van Gogh's ultimate painting' (Arte, 2022). In addition, the photographs on the basis of which Van der Veen made his remarkable discovery will be presented.