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Kees Goudzwaard: upcoming gallery show

Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South
November 15 - December 23, 2023
Opening: Saturday November 11, 4-7 PM

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard: upcoming gallery show

Kees Goudzwaard at de Groen Collection, Arnhem

KEES GOUDZWAARD

Collectie de Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands
January 14 - April 16, 2023

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard at de Groen Collection, Arnhem

Kees Goudzwaard at lxhxb, Eindhoven

PETER LIVERSIDGE / KEES GOUDZWAARD

lxhxb, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
July 15 - August 21, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard at lxhxb, Eindhoven

Kees Goudzwaard: new video

Kees Goudzwaard speaks about his practice in the context of his solo show at Club Solo, Breda.

Kees Goudzwaard
Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands
November 19, 2020 - April 18, 2021

Kees Goudzwaard at Club Solo, Breda

KEES GOUDZWAARD

Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands
November 19, 2020 - April 18, 2021

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard at Club Solo, Breda

Kees Goudzwaard at Villa Croce, Genoa

ASCENDING/DESCENDING

Villa Croce, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
July 14, 2017 - September 24, 2017

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard at Villa Croce, Genoa

Kees Goudzwaard at De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg

BETWEEN RED AND A TRANSPARENT PLANE

De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg
January 18, 2014 - March 23, 2014

ZENO X GALLERY - Kees Goudzwaard at De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg

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Kees Goudzwaard speaks about his practice in the context of his solo show at Club Solo, Breda.

Kees Goudzwaard
Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands
November 19, 2020 - April 18, 2021

Kees Goudzwaard
Biography

Kees Goudzwaard, born 1958, Utrecht (NL), lives and works in Antwerp (BE)

Kees Goudzwaard creates works which at first sight appear to be minimal colour studies constructed from rectangles of paper and masking tape. But seen close up, the works are revealed as painstakingly created trompe l’oeil paintings. Goudzwaard initially makes a model using paper sheets, transparent acetates and tape arranged over a coloured ground, often taking long periods to arrive at a final composition, before he makes a painted illusion of them to exact scale. Goudzwaard fuses art separated by three centuries - playfully precise 17th Century Dutch still-life paintings and pre- and postwar abstraction in Europe and America.
(Ben Luke, 2009)

Kees Goudzwaard has had solo exhibitions at Collectie de Groen in Arnhem (2023), Club Solo in Breda (2020), Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Genova (2017), De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal in Middelburg (2014), Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam (2011), Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem (2010), Culturgest in Lisbon (2006), S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2005), amongst others.

His work was included in several group shows at Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, M HKA in Antwerp, Fondazione Giuliani in Rome, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Roger Raveelmuseum in Machelen-Zulte, Programa Art Center in Mexico City, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen, etc.

Goudzwaard’s work can be found in the permanent collections of S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE), Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara (USA), Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf (DE), Mu.ZEE in Ostend (BE) and the Rubell Family Collection Miami (USA), amongst others.

Kees Goudzwaard joined the gallery in 2005.

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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 11.11 - 23.12 2023
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Collectie de Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands | 14.01 - 16.04 2023
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Collectie de Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands | 14.01 - 16.04 2023
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Collectie de Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands | 14.01 - 16.04 2023
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Collectie de Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands | 14.01 - 16.04 2023
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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40 Years Zeno X Gallery - the two-thousands
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South | 24.09 - 12.11 2022
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N. Dash, Jan De Maesschalck, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Kees Goudzwaard, Susan Hartnett, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Naoto Kawahara, Martin Margiela, Philip Metten, Paulo Monteiro, Jockum Nordström, Marina Rheingantz, Pietro Roccasalva, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Hyun-Sook Song, Bart Stolle, Mircea Suciu, Jack Whitten
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Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands | 19.11 2020 - 18.04 2021
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Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands | 19.11 2020 - 18.04 2021
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Club Solo, Breda, The Netherlands | 19.11 2020 - 18.04 2021
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Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Mark Manders, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 29.01 - 14.03 2020
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Mark Manders, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 29.01 - 14.03 2020
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Mark Manders, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout | 29.01 - 14.03 2020
Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Mark Manders, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Michaël Borremans, N. Dash, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Mark Manders, Hyun-Sook Song, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Luc Tuymans
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four times sixty - anniversary exhibition
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Zeno X Gallery | 15.09 - 13.10 2018
Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Luc Tuymans
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Luc Tuymans
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Luc Tuymans
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Luc Tuymans
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Ascending/Descending (site specific installation)
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Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy | 14.07 - 24.09 2017
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Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy | 14.07 - 24.09 2017
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Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy | 14.07 - 24.09 2017
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Villa Croce, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy | 14.07 - 24.09 2017
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Walled Garden
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Zeno X Gallery | 12.11 - 17.12 2016
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● Walled Garden

 

Zeno X Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition, Walled Garden, by Kees Goudzwaard (°1958, Utrecht).

In contrast to most exhibitions in the gallery, Kees Goudzwaard’s already starts behind the reception desk. An entire wall is covered with a Risograph made by the artist himself. It requires patient observation on the part of the viewer to discern that it is not the repetition of a single pattern. The eye travels constantly to and fro, in search of similarities and differences, because memory lets us down. There is a desire to crack the code of this playful scene. Where is the beginning and where the end? The shapes of the elements recall torn pieces of tape, but also organisms that are drawn to one another only to be repelled, to mutiny or disband. The rhythmic alternation of the size of the particles gives the impression of depth. Some components are little more than dots that seem further away from us. Others betray the fact that this print was created in layers by superimposing colors and shapes, thus creating spatial tension.

In total there are 256 variations derived from six basic patterns and the possible color combinations within a color scheme comprising yellow, green, purple, orange and gray. To create them, Goudzwaard developed a numerical system akin to a musical score.

The composition is evenly spread across the surface but is not rigid. There are perceptible currents, as in the sea or the air. It is a stimulating representation that caresses our senses. The work of Kees Goudzwaard constantly balances in an ambiguous, interstitial space. There is order and disorder, peace and unrest, structure and chaos; the composition is both static and dynamic. The whitespace connects the whole and at the same time ensures rest and breathing room. Positive forms only exist thanks to the presence of negative forms.

This mural installation was originally created in Maastricht, where the Jan Van Eyck Academie invited the artist to install a permanent work. Several months ago, a variant was on view in an exhibition by ROMA publications in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul. Previously, he installed a temporary wall in the S.M.A.K. in Ghent, the Programa Art Center in Mexico and in Culturgest in Lisbon. Next year a new work will be shown in the entrance hall of Villa Croce in Genoa.

The exhibition continues in the two more intimate spaces of the gallery, where the viewer has to take different positions in order to look at one or several paintings. The artist wants to make the viewer slow down by means of his paintings, and in this way stimulate memories and emotions. His own frame of reference and sources of inspiration belong to the intimate atmosphere of the studio. Under no circumstances does he wish to influence the experience of viewing or interpretation, and as a consequence avoids any form of anecdote or narration. Goudzwaard constantly seeks to bridge the visual and mental experience of the here and now in time and space. A painting is for him like an object that carries a metaphor and representation within itself. The image comes together after a studio process in which time and doubt are allies.

Kees Goudzwaard’s studio is a large, white space filled with neutral northern light. Tubes of paint are arrayed on a long table. The floor is covered with small and large stacks of colored paper, transparent acetate held together with tape. This is how he makes sketches and models in preparation for his paintings. First he assembles the palette and then he experiments with shapes and formats in order to arrive at a composition in which the desired tension is constructed. Goudzwaard is not an artist who speaks in extremes, but one who tests the possibilities with an open mind and goes to work with an intuitive, philosophical attitude. Nothing is one-sided. Although he has formulated a number of parameters for organizing the layers and shapes, it remains a primarily intuitive process driven by doubt. Time ensures that this doubt is focused. The artist starts from a model because on the one hand it involves positing an example and on the other because it stands for the temporary.

The image dominates the material, which is flat – at least, at first sight. Painting is a process that Goudzwaard links to pleasure and freedom. Considerations concerning things like composition, movement or temporality are first examined from a variety of perspectives and investigated in a paper model that is subsequently captured permanently in paint. This gives him the opportunity to nuance the intensity of the color, for example, which he can temper or amplify. Although it is crucial that he paint the work himself, he erases all trace of his own involvement that might be caused by extroverted or emphatic brushwork. His paintings are not only about himself, but also about the viewer, becoming a balancing act between the personal and the distant in order to make encounters possible. Goudzwaard says the following of the painted surface:

‘The representation forms a sensible layer, a transition zone between the material reality before the image and an invisible but probably imaginable reality behind it. You could look at what is painted as a sort of skin, in the factual and the metaphorical sense. Like a garment, the façade of a house or a curtain. Something that can conceal or actually reveal, offer access. In a comparable way, my paintings function as dividing and projection screens between the real, observable space where individual desires or memories form a counterweight.’ (Kees Goudzwaard)

Kees Goudzwaard has already had solo exhibitions at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Culturgest in Lisbon, Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Arnhem, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and the Kabinetten van De Vleeshal in Middelburg. In 2013 he was invited to participate in the Biennale of Rennes. His work belongs to museum collections including: S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Mu.ZEE in Oostende and Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.

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Collected Details
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Zeno X Gallery | 03.09 - 18.10 2014
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● Collected Details

 

It is a pleasure to announce the third solo exhibition of the Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard (born 1958, Utrecht), for whom in the meantime Antwerp has become a second home.

Everything starts with paper, tape and transparent acetates. Using a collage technique, the artist links all elements and organizes the image. This is Goudzwaard’s way of drawing and sketching. Later he transfers the entire scene to canvas with oil paint. The sketch loses its status and is processed for another work. The transient character and fragility of this stage turn into a durable, finished painting. The translation process involved is fascinating and confronts us with questions concerning originality, copying and authenticity. The individuality of each painting prevails, yet the paintings also remain part of a larger whole.

Collected Details is an exhibition at which the glance spans the gap between past, present and future. Goudzwaard’s oeuvre is a slow flux, and within it every shift potentially affects the whole. All elements present define the emptiness in-between and vice versa. At the heart of this oeuvre, there is movement, gesture and a handwriting—not to be mistaken with the concept of signature. This is manifest not just in the sketching and painting process, but also in the image itself. Especially in Brushstroke Drawing (2014) we see a torrent of brushstrokes, which, despite the interruptions, convey an impression of unity.

There is a great deal of duality in Goudzwaard’s work. It is rigid and structured, but at the same time it is organic and playful. The rhythmical compositions are structured according to a logic he seeks to elude time and again, and the images are as abstract as they are concrete. Are we looking at a superposition of voids or at a concatenation of colour areas? Perhaps we need not choose—it is simultaneity that prevails.

The artist himself refers to his work as doors rather than windows. For him, the material reality of the canvas and the space it carries within itself are at least as meaningful as the suggestion of a reality through paint. The canvas itself not only serves as a framework or as the bearer of an image—it is part of the image itself. Like in the case of a door, there is the object, i.e. that which we see, but there is also the hint of a world beyond, that which stirs our imagination. Colour, structures and shapes evoke memories that broaden the aesthetic experience. The personal is the point of departure for the creation of universal images, which in turn, after observation and interpretation, appeal again to the personal.

Goudzwaard puzzles over things, doubts, and organizes meetings. He paints various gradations of light and constructs spaces by combining volumes of colour. The intensity of the colour is the result of the superposition of several layers of paint. Like so many other artists, Goudzwaard engages in a dialogue with the history of art. He interprets and translates, in order to create his own language. Every translation involves a loss, but also results in a creative force. Each painting is therefore a collection of memories, discoveries, impressions and shifts—all this influenced by time, space and the hand of the artist. From nothing there comes something and thus meaning and involvement originate.

Early in 2014 Goudzwaard presented a solo exhibition in the Cabinets of the Vleeshal in Middelburg (NL). Earlier the artist showed his work in the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam (NL), the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem (NL), the Culturgest in Lisbon (PT) and the S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE). His work has also been on view at group exhibitions at the Rennes Biennial (FR), Castillo/Corrales in Paris (FR), Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-Zulte (BE), Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf (DE) and Programa Art Center in Mexico City (MX). Goudzwaard’s work has found a place in numerous public collections, including Mu.ZEE in Ostend (BE), S.M.A.K. in Ghent (BE) and Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf (DE).

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Between Red and a Transparent Plane
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De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands | 18.01 - 23.03 2014
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De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands | 18.01 - 23.03 2014
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De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands | 18.01 - 23.03 2014
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De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands | 18.01 - 23.03 2014
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Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Jack Whitten
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Zeno X Gallery | 01.09 - 12.10 2013
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KEES GOUDZWAARD

The paintings by Kees Goudzwaard are bright, controlled and hide any emotional presence of its maker. Being a Dutch painter, Goudzwaard can’t deny the influence of Dutch Modernism. Especially De Stijl was inspiring for the development of his oeuvre. Each painting by Goudzwaard is based on a model. He combines colored paper, transparent acetates and tape just the way a collage would be organized. It’s a slow process of shifts and superpositions. Scale, color, form and composition challenge each other on a formal level. Goudzwaard acts according to his own logic. Finally he aims for a balance between all the components of the painting. In ‘Slow Rocking’ and ‘Collected’ we recognize the discipline and the almost mathematical structuring of the surface as we see in earlier work. This in contrast to the more playful, organic and open composition in ‘Grisaille’, ‘Study’ & ‘Assembling the Smaller Parts’. In those works the borders determine the tension within the painting.

Solo exhibitions by Kees Goudzwaard where installed at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Culturgest in Lisbon, the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem and at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. In 2003 he was invited to create a site-specific installation in Mexico City. His work was part of group exhibitions at Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, Roger Raveel Museum in Machelen-Zulte, Ecole des Beaux Art in Paris, Lokaal 01 in Breda, De Vleeshal in Middelburg and Castillo Corrales in Paris. Last year his work was included in the Biennial for Contemporary Art in Rennes.

BART STOLLE

Time and motion, that’s the start of the oeuvre of the young Belgian artist Bart Stolle (°1974). In the eighties he experienced as a teenager the introduction of commercial television and how images accumulate. Especially the personal computer and the internet change the gaze and the references. Since the invention of smart phones and tablets contemplation becomes even more difficult. Our society is saturated by speed, information and high-tec. Stolle investigates this phenomenon and choses to slow down. He focuses, mingles and (re)constructs. This leads to an oeuvre hold together under the flag ‘Low Fixed Media Show’, an advertising agency for himself or an alternative entertainment company. Despite all evolutions, Stolle is still convinced human beings dominate the machine. Creativity is a human thing that’s currently not mechanical. Stolle observes the world and translate it into humorous animations in which human figures are reduced to an arrangement of geometrical forms. Handicraft is high valued. He doesn’t want to pass on calculations to the computer. He prefers an intensive stop-motion practice over the input of parameters.

The same happens when Stolle paints, when he makes a static image. The result is a slow construction of essential units. Here we notice the influence of Modernism. Especially De Stijl, Suprematism with Malevich and the work by Kandinsky animate him. The personal alphabet of forms and colors Stolle creates is a means to express larger structures without illustrating them. He investigates the similarities between the logic of a computer and of a human and analyzes different society structures. Also his interest in communication systems, music, science, architecture and urbanization echoes through his oeuvre. He reconciles poles such as the virtual with reality, black with white, the organic with mechanics and so on. As much interesting for Stolle is the moment where the viewer attempts to put his images into words. Poetry, philosophy and fantasy emerge while translating.

Solo exhibitions by Bart Stolle were on view in S.M.A.K. in Ghent, De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam and STUK in Leuven. He was invited for group shows at MUHKA in Antwerp, De Loketten of the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, Coup de Ville in Sint-Niklaas, Buda Art center in Kortrijk, Centrum for Contemporary Art in Warsaw and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai.

JACK WHITTEN

Beginning of the seventies Jack Whitten (°1932) makes a decision that determines his complete oeuvre. He takes a distance of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that inspired him strongly during his years at Cooper Union in New York. He interchanges brush and figuration for instruments and abstraction. From that moment on a painting is no longer painted but constructed. Whitten investigates the characteristics of acrylic by boiling it, freezing it, laminating it, crushing it, casting it and spreading it all over. After collecting all his material and his tools, he starts building up the image as a collage. Since the eighties the sculptural and topographical quality of his paintings rises. His works on paper are always ahead of his paintings. He works with the concept of ‘working drawings’. The painting is not an illustration of an idea nor is the painting a reproduction of a drawing. The drawings operate as scouts always advancing ahead using process to search for new possibilities. Process as subject matter gives him a freedom to explore uncharted territory. In his work he reflects about philosophy, science, technology and use it as a mean to honor and commemorate people. Whitten’s abstract paintings aren’t cold, geometrical, anonymous and predictable. They are innovative, full of live, directed by controlled coincidences and strive for universality.

Work by Jack Whitten was part of important exhibitions such as the ‘Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’ (1969,1972) in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and ‘Afro-American Abstraction: An Exhibition of Contemporary painting and sculpture by Nineteen Black American Artists’ (1980) organized by the Institute for Art and Urban Resources and MoMA P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Arts in New York. In 1974 he got his first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. More recently MoMA P.S.1 Center of Contemporary Arts in New York and Atlanta Contemporary Art Center organized a solo exhibition. The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego is preparing a retrospective for 2014.

His work is in the collection of museums amongst which Museum for Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Whitney Museum in New York, Studio Museum in Harlem, Metropolitan Museum in New York, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Museum for Contemporary Art Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art and Tate Modern in London.

 

Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Opening New Space
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Zeno X Gallery | 17.04 - 25.05 2013
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Naoto Kawahara, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jockum Nordström, Grace Schwindt, Jenny Scobel, Bart Stolle, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 11.05 - 09.06 2012
Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Dirk Braeckman, Jan De Maesschalck, Kees Goudzwaard, Bart Stolle, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Jack Whitten, Cristof Yvoré
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Fragments and Gaps
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Zeno X Gallery | 22.01 - 27.02 2010
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Fragments and Gaps
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Zeno X Gallery | 22.01 - 27.02 2010
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Fragments and Gaps
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Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Art is a fight to the finish between black and white
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Zeno X Gallery | 09.01 - 08.03 2008
Kees Goudzwaard, Kim Jones, Bart Stolle
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Zeno X Gallery | 16.03 - 14.04 2007
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Zeno X Gallery | 16.03 - 14.04 2007
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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25 years Zeno X Gallery
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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25 years Zeno X Gallery
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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25 years Zeno X Gallery
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Zeno X Gallery | 18.10 - 02.12 2006
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Michaël Borremans, Dirk Braeckman, Anton Corbijn, Raoul De Keyser, Jan De Maesschalck, Marlene Dumas, Kees Goudzwaard, Yun-Fei Ji, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, John Körmeling, Mark Manders, Jenny Scobel, Maria Serebriakova, Luc Tuymans, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Cristof Yvoré
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Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal | 19.05 - 27.08 2006
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Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal | 19.05 - 27.08 2006
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Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal | 19.05 - 27.08 2006
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 28.05 - 31.07 2005
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 28.05 - 31.07 2005
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S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium | 28.05 - 31.07 2005
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Zeno X Gallery exhibitions

2023
2016
2014
2010
2007

Selected solo exhibitions

2023
2022
In Progress, Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
2020
Vestige and Eternity, Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
2019
Kees Goudzwaard: Nursery Garden, Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
2017
2014
2012
Setting for White, Cardi Black Box Gallery, Milan, Italy
2011
Tuning, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands
2010
Provisional space, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (MMKA), Arnhem, The Netherlands
2006
2005
2001
Kees Goudzwaard, Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Kees Goudzwaard, Plaatsmaken/Het Grafisch Centrum, Arnhem, The Netherlands
1996
Kees Goudzwaard, Rijnstate Ziekenhuis, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Selected group exhibitions

2022
2021
After Daan van Golden, Parts Project Space, The Hague, The Netherlands
In the Meanwhile… Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, United States of America
Peter Liversidge / Kees Goudzwaard, Ixhxb, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Peter Liversidge / Kees Goudzwaard, lxhxb, Eindhoven, Netherlands
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ZERO.... TAKE OFF, DE.GROEN, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2020
EyeOpener, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
Salon de Peinture, M H KA, Antwerp, Belgium
2018
2016
Artists’ Documents: Art, Typography and Collaboration, 3F, Digital Information Center, MMCA, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
2015
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
A4 (5) Multiple, S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
2014
Roma Publications 1998 - 2014, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
2013
Once More, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
General History of Labyrinths, Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris, France
2012
Prairies, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennial for Contemporary Art, Rennes, France
Door Schildersogen / From a Painter’s Perspective, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Roma Publications: Provisional Space, Castillo Corrales, Paris, France
2011
Tomorrow is the question (Collectiepresentatie), S.M.A.K., Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box Gallery, Milan, Italy
Published by Roma Publications, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
2009
La Maison de Poupée, Historisch Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2008
Academia: De la transmission à l’art, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
2007
De Cirkel, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
2006
2005
Slow Art: Dutch and Flemish Contemporary Art, Musem Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003
Storage and Display, Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2002
ROMA publications, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
2001
This is how it feels, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Taal in Beeld, Museum De Wieger, Deurne, The Netherlands
1999
Verre horizonten van dichtbij, Rothmans Manufacturing, Peter Stuyvesant Collectie, Zevenaar, The Netherlands
1998
Clash, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
De Onverstoorbaarheid van de Schilderkunst, Museum Commanderie van St. Jan, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1997
Wiedervorlage, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, Germany
1996
Groepstentoonstelling, Vaalserberg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Nieuwe aanwinsten, Artoteek, The Hague, The Netherlands
Kunst moet, moet kunst, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
New Age - Dada, Kunstruimte Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Public collections

AXA Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Bouwfonds Art Collection, The Netherlands
Collectie Gemeente Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
de Groen – Fine Art Collection, Arnhem, The Netherlands
De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Provincie Gelderland, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mu.ZEE, Ostend, Belgium
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, United States of America
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, United States of America
S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

Press

“Het oog verleiden met afplaktape”
Museum Tijdschrift, article by Edo Dijksterhuis (online)
February 2023

“Poëtische leegte – Kees Goudzwaard in Club Solo”
Metropolis M, article by Linda Köke (online)
April 2021

“Kees Goudzwaard – Between red and several transparent planes”
Club Solo, Breda (NL), text by Philip Van den Bossche
November 2020 – March 2021

“Kees Goudzwaard – Between Red and a Transparant Plane”
Roma Publications 227, text by Lorenzo Benedetti
January – March 2014

“Kees Goudzwaard: Setting for White”
Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, article by Ilaria Bonacossa (online)
June 2012

“Kees Goudzwaard. Tuning”
Bulletin Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (NL), article by Colin Huizing (p.8-10)
April/June 2011

“Kees Goudzwaard. Assembling the right model is as intensive as the painting process that follows it. If necessary I take months or years of pondering”
Art World, no.10, article by Ben Luke (p.72-75)
April/May 2009

“Kijken is een werkwoord – De schilderijen van Kees Goudzwaard in het S.M.A.K.”
KunstNu, article by Bart Geerts (p.22-27)
July 2005

Kees Goudzwaard
Books
Kees Goudzwaard: 16 sheets from Walled Garden

Roma Publications
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016
32 pages

Roma Publications<br />Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016<br />32 pages
Kees Goudzwaard: Between Red and a Transparant Plane

Roma Publications
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014
30 pages, ISBN 9789491843259

Roma Publications<br />Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014<br />30 pages, ISBN 9789491843259
Kees Goudzwaard: Provisional Space

Roma Publications
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011
94 pages, ISBN 9077459607

Roma Publications<br />Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2011<br />94 pages, ISBN 9077459607
Kees Goudzwaard: Sequent

Culturgest
Lisbon, Portugal, 2006
71 pages, ISBN 9077459162

Culturgest<br />Lisbon, Portugal, 2006<br />71 pages, ISBN 9077459162
Kees Goudzwaard: Schilderijen

S.M.A.K.
Ghent, Belgium, 2005
95 pages, ISBN 9075679211

S.M.A.K.<br />Ghent, Belgium, 2005<br />95 pages, ISBN 9075679211
Kees Goudzwaard: Frontal Views

Roma Publications 50
Arnhem, Netherlands, 2004
87 pages, ISBN 9077459073

Roma Publications 50<br />Arnhem, Netherlands, 2004<br />87 pages, ISBN 9077459073
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