Robert Zandvliet

During the mid-nineties, Robert Zandvliet gained a reputation with his paintings of everyday objects, a camera, a television, a chocolate bar, which he rendered in broadly painted areas of color and outlines. The tempera paint (a mixture of egg yolk, water, linseed oil and pigment) gives the images a clear and transparent character. In the past few years Zandvliet devoted himself more and more to the landscape. The images are ‘flatter’ and are not only made with brushes but also with paint rollers. By continually redefining its potential – in terms of form and image, expression and composition, surface and space – Zandvliet ultimately deals with painting itself and with the endless search for possibilities beyond the horizon, beyond the known.