Architecural models PLUS "disco #2" 2012
On the right wall "disco #2" 2012 - Koen van den Broek (b. 1973)
With his paintings of urban spaces such as buildings, roads or car parks, Koen van den Broek takes you on a long road trip. His works examine our experience of the outside world, from close up views of bleak urban corners to the expansiveness of the countryside His compositions are dynamic, featuring architectural and infrastructural motifs such as the curb of a road, the grid on a sidewalk, or the shadows of vehicles. Using his own travel snapshots as a starting point, van den Broek evolves a clear, stripped down, painterly language of cool neutral colours, cold abstraction and harsh shadows. His work emphasizes the function of the canvas as a container, presenting a cropped and arranged view of a much larger subject. With reduced feeling and a sense of distortion, van den Broek's intention seems to be to show us how we see rather than what we see He is not interested in painting from nature, but rather what people leave behind, in "non-places". His works intimate a journey into an unknown destination, out of focus and off-screen, creating what the artist describes as a "visual confusion regarding depth and perspective". Investing our sense of looking with renewed energy, they open up to the viewer the experience of a small, overlooked corner, or a sublime detail, as if viewed from behind the windscreen of a car.
Architecural models PLUS "disco #2" 2012
On the right wall "disco #2" 2012 - Koen van den Broek (b. 1973)
With his paintings of urban spaces such as buildings, roads or car parks, Koen van den Broek takes you on a long road trip. His works examine our experience of the outside world, from close up views of bleak urban corners to the expansiveness of the countryside His compositions are dynamic, featuring architectural and infrastructural motifs such as the curb of a road, the grid on a sidewalk, or the shadows of vehicles. Using his own travel snapshots as a starting point, van den Broek evolves a clear, stripped down, painterly language of cool neutral colours, cold abstraction and harsh shadows. His work emphasizes the function of the canvas as a container, presenting a cropped and arranged view of a much larger subject. With reduced feeling and a sense of distortion, van den Broek's intention seems to be to show us how we see rather than what we see He is not interested in painting from nature, but rather what people leave behind, in "non-places". His works intimate a journey into an unknown destination, out of focus and off-screen, creating what the artist describes as a "visual confusion regarding depth and perspective". Investing our sense of looking with renewed energy, they open up to the viewer the experience of a small, overlooked corner, or a sublime detail, as if viewed from behind the windscreen of a car.