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…
Between 1968 and 1976 Richter produced a series of grey paintings. With these works he reduced painting to its barest form and apparently wanted to rid the image of any personal signature. Nonetheless…
In the series Landlines Sean Scully explores the dividing lines between land, water and sky. The paintings are made up of broad horizontal strokes in subdued earthen hues, alternated with green and…
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…
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…
Over the years Frize has experimented with countless procedures that can result in a painting. He determines, in advance, a painterly action which he then carries out systematically. That pragmatic…
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…
Interpretation, misinterpretation and transformed meaning play a significant role in the work of Bosmans. 9 Sisters is based on a story from Ovid's The Metamorphoses , in which nine gossiping sisters…
Marlene Dumas painted this self-portrait a year after her mother died, in 2007, at twelve o'clock in the afternoon. The title Selfportrait at Noon suggests that this work came about at a precise point…
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…