Jan Andriesse

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18 September 2021 - 6 February 2022
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As a tribute to the artist Jan Andriesse (Jakarta, 1950 - Amsterdam, 2021), who recently passed away, we are exhibiting some of his works from our collection. Andriesse’s final work, “whiteout” MMXXI, 2021, has been loaned to De Pont for this occasion.

The observation of reality formed the basis of Andriesse’s painting – the reflection of light on water, the splitting of the spectrum in arainbow, or the influence of twilight on the atmosphere. These observations went hand in hand with his research into and love for the explanations that he found in geometry and mathematics, for example, in the Kepler triangle, the Fibonacci series, and the catenary. He used these in his work, perhaps to fathom their mystery through the process of creation, just as he made a replica of Mondrian’s lozenge with yellow lines in order to get to grips with its secrets.

Art and the beauty of science coincide in Andriesse’s oeuvre. They are never simply a record of a phenomenon but rather an experience of it that transcends reality.
 

_{Would you like to find out more? On our De Pont channel you can watch the film Jan Andriesse : “whiteout” MMXXI  (2021) by Maarten de Kroon and Hollandse meesters, Jan Andriesse by Maarten de Kroon and Jeanne van der Horst.}