Theater
Gil Gomes Leal (Amenti Theatre Company / Ulrike Quade Company)
Gil Gomes Leal (Amenti Theatre Company / Ulrike Quade Company)
Susanne de Vries
Opening expositie: Stenen en Beton
Susanne de Vries
Streets, buildings, cellars, old attics, alleys… everything fascinates me, but especially when it is no longer or not yet new.
I have that with construction pits, scaffolding or demolition work in cities.
The straightness of our building.
A perspective, the tight, unnatural lines that can sometimes also have a kind of sadness.
But I also see that in people, their posture, the lines of the face, the look in their eyes.
For me, that leads to fantasies of what it was or what it could become.
I try to tell the story behind it.
My paintings must show a tension, drama.
I want to leave room to fantasize about what it will be or what it has been.
The important thing is that the mood, the confusing of the beauty comes across… of decay or of the promise.
- Susanne de Vries
The opening will take place on Thursday 13 July at 5:30 PM (doors open at 5:00 PM).
Susanne de Vries (lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Fear, destruction and decay, but also strength are recurring themes in the paintings of Susanne de Vries. For each painting she chooses a limited and balanced color palette, so that her works radiate harmony and tranquility. She deliberately analyzes her subject in form, light and shadow in order to depict the essence of her subject. She mostly works in oils, sometimes in acrylics and nowadays also in gouache and watercolors. She has a fascination with architectural structures. These could just as well be the luxurious apartment buildings on South Axis of Amsterdam; details of dilapidated structures or the shattered beauty of ancient cities and buildings that are in danger of disappearing from the face of the earth. With a painter's eye she registers the beauty of both strength and upheaval.
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