<\/span><\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>Lily de BontLily de Bont\u2019s work is a frontal attack on the painting. She cuts the cloth, removes it from thewindow or reverses the weaving. Where she previously stiffened the damaged canvas withplaster or epoxy, the canvas remains flexible nowadays. Armed with a scalpel, she carefullydissected the canvas as an accomplished pathologist anatomist. The unraveled threads hangloosely downwards and change the overall picture, including the dimensions if the work istilted or otherwise draped. The wooden frame, if present, is exposed as a frame. In otherwork, the slats become independent and further dissected by what she calls amputations.Finally, the canvas can only finish without a frame. Here she touches on the principles of theFrench Supports\/Surfaces artists. It is the “preparation” of the canvas, the reduction, whichfurther deepens the theme of “Beauty and Destruction” and exposes unknown possibilities.Lily de Bont lives and works in Rotterdam. She graduated with honors in 1989 at the Sint Joost Academy in Den Bosch. That year shereceived the “Lucas Award” and the “Jan Hoet Award”. Recent shows include ACEC, Apeldoorn; Sebastian Fath Contemporary,Mannheim (G); and NL=US, Rotterdam (with Jan Maarten Voskuil)<br \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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