At a young age Robert Zandvliet (Terband 1970) already began to earn praise for his paintings. In 1996 he made use of a guest studio at De Pont, and the museum acquired his work for the collection. In…
For the first time, Robert Zandvliet is showing a lesser known side of his work: a selection from hundreds of drawings and sketches made in preparation for series or single canvases. Because of his…
Howard Hodgkin belongs to the same generation as Ronald Kitaj, David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield. His first exhibition, in 1962, was held jointly with Allen Jones. Later, too, he remained in contact…
The exhibition being held in the project space is dedicated to the paintings of Linda Arts (Nijmegen, 1971), of whom a large screen print, designed as a bus-shelter poster, was shown at De Pont about…
Robert Zandvliet joins in the pre-eminently Dutch painterly tradition which has been described by Svetlana Alpers as ‘the probings of the eye’. A characteristic of this artistic legacy is the…
The paintings of Toon Verhoef (Voorburg 1946) resist definition; the words to describe what they show usually remain at the tip of one's tongue. Each painting is based on a drawing that the artist has…
Raoul De Keyser was considered a representative of the Nieuwe Visie (new vision) in painting during the sixties. The subjects of these artists were taken from the day-to-day environment and reduced to…
The work of Bettie van Haaster has a highly spatial character, this being almost in defiance of its intimate scale - dimensions of 35 x 25 centimeters are normal for her. The subdued colors create an…
Mary Heilmann’s abstract paintings, often composed of flowing and transparent colors, echo the images and sounds of the day. Her work alludes to pop culture, literature, film, landscape, fashion,…
Concurrently with the exhibition of his recent paintings at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De Pont will be showing the studies and works on paper by Toon Verhoef (Voorburg, 1946). Although this is…