The title is so precise that one could become suspicious of it: Adrian Walker, artist, drawing from a specimen in a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of British Columbia,…
The two grey monochromes by Gerhard Richter, which De Pont has on long-term loan, form a strong visual contrast with his multicolored, 120-part Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) from 1992. In a…
Far from the entrance to De Pont is Wolfgang Laib’s Wachsraum (Wax Room), a space which was constructed with slabs of beeswax. An opening in the wall provides access to a narrow corridor, which curves…
Due to the use of aluminum and its industrial finish, Kafka’s Palindrome by Roni Horn is somewhat reminiscent of works from Minimal Art, particularly those of Donald Judd. But whereas Judd’s forms are…
The observation that the tension of the painterly image relies on contrasts is hardly a new one. Whether these are contrasts between figure and background or between the opaque and the transparent, in…
At the start of the 1980s there emerged several young sculptors whose work received international attention under the heading New British Sculpture. Though not a coherent group, they seemed to be…
Introduction A sports car with cat’s eyes, a poodle on a trampoline and a parade of giraffes – the German artist Raphaela Vogel (Nuremberg, 1988) establishes surprising connections in her work. In her…
To describe the drawings that Dan Asher has been making since the early nineties is a precarious matter. What can words add to these indefinable, airy structures in ballpoint pen that seem scarcely…
The Widest Prairies Back in Amsterdam, I sit on my couch while outside my window construction workers are building in the sun. A large blue crane turns every five minutes or so, placing building…
2011 ≠ 1848 In his work, Canadian artist Stan Douglas (1960) subtly merges fact and fiction, history and current events, blurring the distinctions between them. This is true of his five-part photo…