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<b>Either Way<br \/>An exhibition by Jan Maarten Voskuil & Martijn Schuppers.<\/b><br \/><b>Opening<\/b><br \/>Saturday 21 March<br \/>15:00 \u2013 17:00The exhibition will be open to visitors before the official opening.<br \/>Come and see it from Saturday, 14 March.<b>Gallery address<\/b>NL=US Gallery<br \/>Mauritsweg 55B<br \/>3012 JX, Rotterdam<b>This exhibition runs until 26 April 2026<\/b><br \/><b>Exhibition statement<\/b>NL=US Art on Mauritsweg in Rotterdam presents the exhibition \u201cEither Way\u201d by Martijn Schuppers and Jan Maarten Voskuil from 21 March to 26 April. The exhibition is based on the realization that Schuppers and Voskuil, starting from the same artistic inquiry, ultimately took opposite directions. For both artists this inquiry began in the late 1980s with naturalistic painting and the question of how, as an artist, one could still give meaning to that medium. The depiction of reality was the first thing both artists quickly abandoned. What remained was the painting itself, consisting of the stretcher frame with canvas on the one hand and the paint on the other.Schuppers\u2019 turn was toward the paint itself \u2014 the pictorial space, the surface of paint. For his paint manipulations he uses unconventional techniques. With solvents he affects applied layers and then moves the dissolved paint in a process-based way. Through this detour, illusionistic (photo)realistic paintings seem to emerge again \u2014 of\u2026 well, of what actually?Voskuil\u2019s turn concerns the stretcher frame and the painter\u2019s canvas, the physical space of the painting. He manipulates the stretcher frame into a three-dimensional construction that he subsequently stretches with canvas. In this way he creates a undulating surface with an organic character. Whereas painting for him previously consisted of depicting the world using light and dark (chiaroscuro) and perspective, he has replaced imitation with actual space and with real effects of shadow and light. He often uses these spatial paintings as modules with which he constructs a new, abstract world.<br \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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