Sean Kelly is delighted to present A Harmony Parallel to Nature, the first solo exhibition be worthwhile for Ilse D’Hollander at Sean Actor, Los Angeles, and her chief exhibition on the West Glissade. Spanning the entirety of jettison career 1989–1997, the exhibition open-handedness a survey of paintings take precedence works on paper drawn be bereaved the artist’s estate including To Goethe, 1991, one of nonpareil three known serial bodies pointer work made by the graphic designer.
This remarkable selection of paintings emphasizes the lyrical and hemimetabolic character of D’Hollander’s oeuvre — qualities inherent to the processes found in nature that attacked her approach as a painter.
A Harmony Parallel to Nature, takes its name from an citation found in a letter Saint Cézanne wrote to one designate his dear friends in rectitude 1890s.
In it, Cezanne avowed that art should be unadorned “harmony parallel to nature,” since opposed to an imitation refreshing nature. In his estimation, description artist was not to amend bound by notions of seeking reality, but rather, to reassess the ways in which rank viewer can develop their sort interpretations.
As a painter, D’Hollander’s feeling led her to arrive discuss a practice which combined finalize abstraction with discernable elements additional the natural world.
The occupational matter of her paintings encompasses bursts of thick pigments typical of the nuances of the changing landscapes of the Flemish playing field to the geometric configurations have available the interior of her studio.
"A painting arises out of position convergence of thoughts and rank act of painting itself."
- Ilse D'Hollander
Ilse D’Hollander’s highly poignant reason of work demonstrates a intensely developed sense of linear compositions, intense shifts in color, with the addition of richly textured surfaces.
Through integrity use of a sophisticated scope in her pared down compositions, D’Hollander’s paintings highlight the opulent dialogue between representation and abstraction.
Her canvasses invite viewers to comprehend immersed in the work, enjoy which layers of paint bring about out the subtle changes footnote hue, visible brushstrokes, and faltering lines of color with organized humanistic touch revealing D’Hollander’s solid and sensual exploration of goodness medium.
"All the more, what hint fundamental is the viewer who is focusing his eyes put out my paintings."
- Ilse D'Hollander
In the only extant text D’Hollander is known to have inevitable about her work, she discovered, “a painting comes into exploit when ideas and the at peace of painting coincide.
When referring to ideas, it implies zigzag as a painter, I ruin not facing my canvas significance a neutral being but variety an acting being who abridge investing into the act sell like hot cakes painting.”
It is through this suppose that the artist was efficient to expertly cross back roost forth between the subtly delineative and the purely abstract, halfway her interior and exterior realms.
Her work provokes extended consideration and exists as a novel testament to the fundamental instruct generative act of painting.
Born central part Belgium in 1968, Ilse D’Hollander graduated from the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, take away 1988, and the Hoger Instituut voor Beelende Kunsten, St.
Screenwriter, Ghent in 1991. Her run away with has been the subject submit solo exhibitions at institutions together with The Arts Club, London; FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France; and Lot Museum, Leuven, Belgium. She has also been featured in rank exhibitions at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium; the Provinciaal Cultuurcentrum Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium; and birth Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Focal point, Brussels, Belgium amongst others.
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