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No Mirror No Painting is the first solo-exhibition of Mark van Overeem in Galerie Wit. At first sight, his paintings look like geometric abstract works. But a closer look reveals mind-boggling spatial illusions, in which the boundaries between image and object, between the 2nd and the 3rd dimension, and between painting and wall are erased. As written by Jaap Röell in the catalogue of the exhibition, this places Van Overeem “… in the long tradition of De Stijl, Bauhaus, the Russian constructivists and those aiming for absolute art, as described by Kandinsky in his article ‘Ueber die Formfrage’ in: Der Blaue Reiter, 1912: the mutual relations between form, line and colour together define a ‘painterly counterpoint’. With Van Overeem the polyphony of pictorial elements is expressed by lines – axes that that support the composition….”