Those of you that are a bit more familiar with my portfolio know that I have a love/hate relationship with texture. Many of my paintings can be considered as a form of research into the interaction between strokes of oil paint, colour and texture.
These photo’s, which I took last Sunday with my new macro lens (Tamron 90mm f2.8 1:1 on a NikonD300), nicely illustrate that principle.
Starting from tomorrow August 20th until mid October I will be showing 10 paintings and 1 mixed media sculpture at restaurant “De Golfbreker”, Strandlaan 302, 8670 Koksijde.
For the first time, the series about touch is displayed in its entirety. The 5 white works, characterised by the presence of a wide line and a cirlce, are confronted with the red, black and white containing larger works that deal with the same topic: they question the origin, the directional movement and the immediate result of a touch.
A catalogue can be purchased online and delivered right to your doorstep:
The restaurant closes on Tuesdays.
Amazon Link: African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection (Art Flexi Series)
The Musée Jacquemart André is currently showing the masterpieces of the Barbier-Mueller collection of African and Oceanic art. That collection is considered to be the most beautiful showcase of primitive art in the whole world.
The exhibition continues until August 24th. Read more →
S.M.A.K., Vooruit and 5VOOR12 npo are challenging the summer with the first edition of Electrified. It will be a pioneering cooperation, and will resound in musical and artistic circles.
For years, the three partners have been in each other’s proximity, but they will only meet each other for the first time this year in Electrified. The meeting place is the border territory between the visual arts, the art of sound and electronics. The result of the encounter: an innovative project including an exhibition and a live programme, linked to the night happening by 10 Days Off in Vooruit during the Festival of Ghent.
Yesterday evening I updated my blog to WordPress v2.6. I’ve used the occasion to create a new gallery with all my paintings. I’v been searching for a nice gallery tool for a while now, and I finally found NextGen Gallery plugin for Wordpress.
It automatically makes thumbnails for me, arranges them nicely on the page and supports the Lightbox styled viewer when clicking on a thumbnail.
Check it out: http://www.steve-koll.be/?page_id=150
(oh yeah: my “nice” URLs have suddenly disappeared, so I’m stuck to working mith these page_id’s for now, sorry)
A new painting, finally! It’s been a while, I know. Many people asked me why it was taking so long to make a new painting. My typical answer: “I’m currently concentrating on writing my art theory.” But that’s a very difficult task. Obviously it will never be finished, but it’s a good exercise to formalise my ideas in the form of a paper to make them more structured. It will become the starting point for new work with a solid base.
Once the paper is finished it will be published here, but until then, here are some starting points that I will elaborate on:
The American artist Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 - May 12, 2008) is dead. The New York reported this Tuesday on its website. He was 82. Rauschenberg is known as one of the most important painters and assembly artists of the United Status of the twentieth century and as a pioneer of the pop art movement.
Amazon Link: Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces (Menil Collection)
Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his “Combines” of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance. Rauschenberg had a tendency to pick up the trash that interested him on the streets of New York City and bringing it back to his studio to use it in this works. He claimed he “wanted something other than what I could make myself and I wanted to use the surprise and the collectiveness and the generosity of finding surprises. And if it wasn’t a surprise at first, by the time I got through with it, it was. So the object itself was changed by its context and therefore it became a new thing.”
In 1953, Rauschenberg stunned the art world by erasing a drawing by de Kooning. In 1964 Rauschenberg was the first American artist to win the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale (Mark Tobey and James Whistler had previously won the Painting Prize). Since then he has enjoyed a rare degree of institutional support.
Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida until his death on May 12, 2008.
Organised by the New york-based Scope Foundation, this event for ‘young’ artists hits Basel a day earlier than the main art fair. It returns for the second year to Basel in a new venue, a 60,000 square foot glass pavilion situated on the Rhine. Within walking distance of Art Basel 39, SCOPE will present its most international fair yet, showcasing 85 galleries from all over the world.
More info: www.scope-art.com
Thanks to my colleague Anouk, I’ve recently discovered a new online service: book printing. The concept itself is not new: you download book making software, you fill your book offline, and then upload everything; order, wait a few days, and bingo, your new book arrives in the mail.
But blurb.com is different: Read more →
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