Name: Erik Oldenhof - Untitled - Copy
Brand: Erik Oldenhof
SKU: ROTO24041
Price: 850.0 EUR
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Erik Oldenhof - Untitled - Copy

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If you pay close attention, you will quickly see the sizzling emotion in Erik Oldenhof's work. But not right away.... Read more Read more

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If you pay close attention, you will quickly see the sizzling emotion in Erik Oldenhof's work. But not right away. Simplicity is, after all, the strength of the Amsterdam artist. In his line paintings, he strives to achieve a maximum painterly return with minimal means. That power of limitation has been shown before.

As in Minimal Art and Fundamental Painting of the sixties and seventies of the last century. However, Oldenhof goes a big step further. If you take the trouble to get under the skin of his paintings, you will see that his focus on the painting process is characteristic of all his work. Each painting must be read. In the compositions of recent paintings, relationships appear with early graphic work and with his training as an architectural draftsman. In the use of colour, references can be found to the work the artist used to do in his father's laundering shop. In canvases in which the thickness of the horizontal lines varies, landscape connotations are obvious. His paintings are about the process of painting, of painting over, adding and omitting, surface and depth, light and shadow, leaving traces and causing derailments, creating order and the deliberate disruption thereof. From a distance, Oldenhof's canvases seem to consist only of strict, regular and rational line structures. But up close, the canvases with their thick layers of paint vibrate and vibrate exuberantly.

Irregularities and frayed edges underline that the abstract shapes were not made by a machine, but by a human being of flesh and blood.

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