In the paintings of Reinoud van Vught, paint and chance are given free rein. Moments at which he pours out the paint and directs the fluid substance only in a loose, intuitive manner are alternated,…
In what way can painting be manifest in space? This is a question that Katharina Grosse (Freiburg, 1961) has continued to provide with new answers over the past twenty years, while also painting on…
Until now, scarcely any work by Anton Henning (Berlin 1964) has been shown in the Netherlands. Yet international concern for his paintings and installations has grown recently. Henning is regarded as…
In France, where painting is considered by many to be an outmoded medium, Barnard Frize (Paris, 1949) is one of the few painters. His paintings are the product of a methodical approach. `I opt for a…
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.…
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…