ART Rotterdam 4 – 8 February 2015, Van Nellefabriek, stand 36

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ART Rotterdam 4 – 8 February 2015, Van Nellefabriek, stand 36
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Klaas Kloosterboer
Klaas Kloosterboer, 95124, 1995, enamel on linen, 250 x 140 x 130 cm
The work of Klaas Kloosterboer can be characterised as playful and
theatrical. He is standing ‘with one foot still in the aesthetics of
painting, the other foot […] always looking for new areas to annex:
the theatrical, the 3-dimensional or the scenario’ . Kloosterboer
appropriates the visual language of abstract art, but attempts to
create more than a formal, aesthetic or sensory experience.
Kloosterboer´s works are the result of self-imposed laws or rather
theoretical principles that are a direct result from working in his
studio.
Klaas Kloosterboer, 15102, 2015, enamel on linen, sanded, 240 x 260 cm
The connection between the act, the concept and the creating are a
very important aspect of Kloosterboers art practice: “The fact that I
subject my paintings and canvasses to certain treatment does not
come from dissatisfaction or displeasement. The actions that I
perform can be considered rituals that give a certain meaning and
significance to life. You stop and think while you are performing the
action. By cutting a circle out of a canvas you shape and destroy
something at the same time. By taking the part you cut out and
sewing it back on the hole you created you are attempting to heal the
wound.”
Klaas Kloosterboer, z.t., 1991, oil on linen, 70 x 50 cm,
Klaas Kloosterboer, 08148, 2008, oil on linen, 60 x 50 cm,
Klaas Kloosterboer, 08151, 2008, oil and pencil on linen, 60 x 50 cm
Klaas Kloosterboer (Amsterdam, 1959) currently lives and works in
Amsterdam. Kloosterboer studied at the Rijksacademie Amsterdam.
Recent exhibitions include Blue Suit at the Bob van Orsouw gallery
Zurich (CH, 2014),
Painting XXXL – Klaas Kloosterboer, Chris Martin and Jim Shaw’ in the
Submarine Wharf of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
(NL, 2013);
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL, 2011),
Villa Romana, Florence (IT, 2010), Sudsudvestur, Reykjavik (ICE, 2009)
The ‘Projection Project, Budapest episode’ at Kunsthalle, Budapest
(HUN, 2007).
Klaas Kloosterboer, 07142, 2007, acrylic on fabric, 60 x 50 cm,
Klaas Kloosterboer, 07170, 2007, acrylic on fabric, 60 x 70 cm,
Klaas Kloosterboer, 11151, 2011, acrylic on fabric, 125 x 105 cm
Klaas Kloosterboer, 14173, 2014, enamel on paperboard, 280 x 230 cm
Klaas Kloosterboer, 14163, 2014, enamel on paperboard, 280 x 230 cm
Klaas Kloosterboer, 14162, 2014, enamel on paperboard, 280 x 230 cm
Kloosterboer’s work can be found in private collections in The Netherlands, Germany, Belgium,
France, Norway Switzerland and Iceland and is part of public collections such as Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam NL, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL,
Schunck Museum, Heerlen, NL