The oeuvre of Marc Mulders is ruled by what may well be the major theme in the history of art: the eternal cycle of life and death. The expression of living and dying, death and resurrection, has long…
The exhibition in the project space is dedicated to recent paintings by René Korten (Horn, 1957). Korten made his debut with formal paintings during the early 1980s. From 2001 to 2007 the emphasis lay…
Reinoud van Vught (Goirle 1960) is a painter to the core, and the act of painting itself has become one of his most important themes. Along with Marc Mulders, Paul van Dongen, Ronald Zuurmond and the…
For the expressive, at times almost violent-looking paintings of the Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer (Baden, 1929), an existing depiction has almost always served as the point of departure up to now.…
Since the 1990s Katharina Grosse has built up a repertoire consisting of large painted canvasses and bright acrylic colours sprayed onto both interior and exterior walls, ceilings and floors. It is a…
In his early years Rainer was very much influenced by surrealism, a movement that attracted artists and intellectuals particularly before World War ii. The ideas concerning the direct expression of…
On display in the project space is an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by George Meertens (Stein, 1957). Meertens has been active as an artist since the late 1980s. In recent years…
Michaël de Kok (Hilvarenbeek, 1958) paints landscapes. Yet this is not the first thing that comes to mind on seeing his exhibition of recent works in De Pont’s podium space. Most of the works consist…
Toon Verhoef’s images resist definition; a description of what they depict remains on the tip of one’s tongue. The origins of the motifs and the objective for which he has employed them remain…
In 2009 Theo Kuijpers (Helmond 1939) made a trip to Australia for the third time. The exhibition of his recent paintings in the project space is the visual result of his stay there. Memories are an…