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Galerie Wit is proud to present three outstanding artists at Art Amsterdam (booth 104), that will be held from May 26 to 30 in Amsterdam Rai.
Pedro Calapez (Portugal, 1953) is widely known for his assembled groups of painted aluminium panels. The disaggregation of these fragmented works invokes a tension caused by movements in unexpected directions, revealing some kind of “unbalanced balance”. The painted surfaces may recall horizons, spaces and depths, challenging the representation of landscapes. His works on a single sheet of paper too transcend pure abstraction: they too question and expand established concepts in visual art.
Pedro Calapez, 2010 serie s/titulo # 02, acrylic on 640 g Arches paper, 75 x 105.5 cm
The paintings of Mark van Overeem (the Netherlands, 1970) too look like abstract, even geometric abstract, works. But a closer look reveals mind-boggling spatial illusions of object-like shapes, in which the boundaries between image and object, between the 2nd and the 3rd dimension, and between painting and wall are erased. In addition to these paintings, Van Overeem shows an installation with light projection, and a series of photo collages, that elaborate on the images invoked by his paintings.
Mark van Overeem, 2009, M2209, oil on Reynobond & tape on wall, 67 x 86 x 4 cm
The installations of Heidi Linck (the Netherlands, 1978) are interventions in space. From a wide range of materials (or shadows and light) she creates new, imaginable and often mobile spaces. Her drawings, invariably in black ink, remind one of a room in which the light has just been turned off: over time spatial details slowly dawn on the viewer. They derive from observed or imagined spaces which she mixes and merges into new spatial configurations. Her latest series of drawings (“Rich people having fun”) refer to existing public spaces that have been deserted as a result of the financial crisis. For the occasion she prepared a film of another “empty space”: the hall and stands of Art Amsterdam 2010, bare, without art and without visitors
Heidi Linck, 2010, "Rich people having fun", ink on paper, 64 x 96 cm