Geer van Velde

at Kunsthandel Rueb(TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

 

Composition, 1960

People build castles virtual and real. The thing is that the foundation is mostly non-existed or virtual(the blue figure in the lower right corner and the open space between it and the gray figure in the lower left corner). They take the facts(the gray figure in the lower left corner) and their dreams (the blue figure in the lower right figure) and span them with predictions, feelings and hopes. The newly built layer is used as a foundation for the next layer. Sometimes this method works, sometimes it does not. The main thing is when it does not, you should just start over.

Geer van Velde

at Frans Jacobs Fine Art (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Composition, 1962

Things that happen to us in life are shaping our personality. Every event breaks apart a layer of inside (a black triangle in the bottom left center, black figure in the top center and a big gray arrow with navy end in the upper right corner). The broken pieces are trying to get back together like a planet that builds itself from the star leftovers. The pieces are not fit well as they were before.So our personality is a mosaic of our character and events.

Ton Frenken

Ton Frenken at Borzo Kunsthandel BV (TEFAF Maastricht 2012)

Dyptique, 2002

 Two persons. Two lonely souls. They are looking for someone to be in their lives. They look pretty hard. Each constructed a lighthouse to signal other where to find them( the vertical black-and-white line at the edge). The soul-mate searching experience is mostly a negative one for them. That's why the lighthouse became more black than white over time. Or maybe the search criteria they use is too stringent, too black-and-white, so the others keep away from them. There is another possibility that they are too tender, too gentle, too subtle and the lighthouse is their defending mechanism. Anyway, somehow they found each other. Finally they align one to the other. And now the game can be started! (black and white squares in the center).