IN SEARCH OF SILENT BEAUTY
A DUO EXHIBITION BY NAN GROOT ANTINK & WINNIE TESCHMACHER

Curated by Diana Wind 9 November – 21 December 2024 NL = US Gallery

You are cordially invited to the festive opening of the duo exhibition by Nan Groot Antink & Winnie Teschmacher.
Curated by Diana Wind

Opening
November 9, 2024
15.00-17.00

Address
NL=US Gallery
Mauritsweg 55B, 3012 JX, Rotterdam

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

“My choice to bring the work of Nan Groot Antink and Winnie Teschmacher together in a duo exhibition is inspired by my appreciation for their enormous craftsmanship, the extensive research that both do prior to the series they make and the patience and time they take to achieve a excellent result. It feels like heaven and earth come together by showing the glass objects of Teschmacher and the paintings of Groot Antink side by side.
The combination of works forms a timeless space of colour and light, resulting in silent beauty that has seemingly been created effortlessly.” Diana Wind, curator

Nan Groot Antink (Boxtel, 1954)
For decades, Nan Groot Antink has been making her own dyes to dye or paint textiles. The dyes are not, as with most painters, an instrument to depict an image, but it is the protagonist of her work. Monochrome, dense or transparent canvases or patterns and reliefs of erratic lines, grids, drips, spots and clots applied to a base are what they are, COLOR, created from self-prepared dyes from flowers, plants and seaweed that Groot Antink collects in the Netherlands or on her travels and stays in Venice, Japan and Mali, among other places.

Winnie Teschmacher (Rotterdam, 1958)
“Winnie Teschmachers’ sculptures only resemble themselves: they are completely autonomous, also in their meaning. Her sculptures aim to transcend the technique and leave the material behind. That indicates the choice of a form that allows her to become absorbed in perception… But from Winnie Teschmachers’ point of view, looking means moving, in terms of time and space. Looking means observing a piece of sculpture from every angle; looking means taking time. And the form in which the sculpture manifests itself is an essential means for achieving this. The meticulously designed form leads the viewer to an active observation that brings the sculpture in touch with the surroundings and time. Once the sculpture achieves this, it has broken free of its own material and form. Then it acquires a spiritual dimension, and the image verges on the unattainable…
The sculptures of Winnie Teschmacher give shape to light. Not that light becomes tangible as a result, though it does become visible. Light surrounds the work and crystallizes in glass that has become form. Together they make each other visible: light by way of glass, glass by way of light.” Frits de Coninck, Spaces of Silence

Nan Groot Antink, Winter colors 7’, 2021
Cotton and wool dyed with madder, wood with paint residues from China clay, cutch and Indian ink, wood
30 x 30 x 6 cm