{"id":17342,"date":"2022-07-02T12:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/?page_id=17342"},"modified":"2025-05-23T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:02:25","slug":"twice-as-nice-and-nowhere-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/?page_id=17342","title":{"rendered":"TWICE AS NICE AND NOWHERE TO HIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TWICE AS NICE AND NOWHERE TO HIDE<\/b><\/h1>\n


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In this exhibition we will bring together the visual artists Preta Wolzak and Pieter W. Postma.
\nIt is important for a contemporary artist to connect with an artist you admire and also connect as a human being; these things cannot be separated.
\nTo connect with another artist in the land of the individualist is a challenge and enrichment in itself.
\nThe connection is very clear in this exhibition: the abundance of color, materials, entire installations, but also the \u2018artistic wink\u2019 to one another.<\/p>\n

Both are compulsive storytellers.
\nUnderlying Wolzak\u2019s work is inability or irritation. The common theme in her work is the injustice to people or the globe, which is caused by man himself. The story behind her work is most important to her: you can see the work as a beautiful portrait or landscape, but it cannot be made if it is not carried by a story.
\nShe wants to incorporate that into images with different materials that explode like a bomb of sequins, leather, iridescent acrylics, silks from Japan, glow in the dark thread, and new fabrics.<\/p>\n

Postma is a wandering storyteller: from his own immediate environment to parallel universes. He shows the ordinary every day, an action or an observation, portrait, or person. There is always a narrative element of the solitary protagonist or an abstract form which, in its mere appearance is an ode to the narrative.
\nIn his sculptures and installations, derived from his wanderings, Postma combines hard and soft materials. He uses a wide arsenal of materials: wood, polyester, textiles, ceramics, and metals. The figures, his friends, arise from steel, paper, plaster, rubbers, (artificial) leather and fabrics.<\/p>\n

Photo by Thijs Wolzak<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nHet laatste jachtluipaard, 2007
\nSteel, silicone, prepared cotton, cold foam
\n45 x 80 x 125cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Preta Wolzak
\nPeople with the yellow ear #19, 2022
\nLeather and embroidery<\/p>\n

People with the yellow ear #24, 2022
\nLeather and embroidery<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nThe Pink Tube Affair, 2022
\nMixed media
\n6 x 4 x 3mtr<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Preta Wolzak
\nOpisthoproctus Soleatus Hemelkijker #7, 2022
\nClay, epoxy, beads, sillicone<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nIn Velvet Light on Santa Klara, 2022
\nWood, textile, acrylic paint, iron
\n26 x 26 x 64cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Preta Wolzak
\nFrom the series Arctic Charade #Dirty Laundry, 2022
\nAcrylics, leather, wool fibers, cotton, silk and sequins
\n110 x 170cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nJohn Sebastian strekt zijn been naar iedere volle maan, 2019
\nSteel, Silicone, prepared cotton, coldfoam
\n45 x 80 x 125cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nFresh Fruit, 2022
\nTextile
\n110 x 90cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Preta Wolzak
\nFrom the series Arctic Charade #Endurance, 2022
\nAcrylics, leather, wool fibers, cotton, silk and sequins
\n110 x 170cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nWhile I Roll Down Dawn, 2022
\nIron, zinc, kevlar, epoxy
\n75 x 130 x 115cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nVriend 9220, 2020
\nCeramics
\n23 x 19 x 40cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Preta Wolzak
\nFrom the series Arctic Charade #Polarfriends, 2022
\nAcrylics, leather, wool fibers, cotton, cardboard, silk
\n125 x 300cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Pieter W Postma
\nSneakers, 2022
\nWood, copper, rope, stain
\n100 x 65 x 40cm<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17342"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18689,"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17342\/revisions\/18689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nlisus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}