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27/11/2003

Wall paintings

CCNOA Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Bruxelles

Daniel Göttin (CH)
Jan van der Ploeg (NL)
Philippe Van Snick (B)

CCNOA is pleased to announce its forthcoming exhibition with 3 large wall paintings by the artists Daniel Göttin (*1959, CH), Jan van der Ploeg (*1959), NL), and Philippe Van Snick (*1946, B). In addition, Daniel Göttin will also execute the Center's first semi-public / semi- permanent mural in the building's atrium.

Daniel Göttin's works are site-related installations and all-over drawings made of industrial materials. The real space with its own qualities has a strong influence on his artistic concept and practice; it becomes an integral part of the installation. Art work and real space appear as a transformed entities, both parts are existing simultaneously in time and size. Each new spatial situation provides a new experience of perception. The creative manipulation of simple functional material can translate the act of looking into the art of seeing, transforming the place itself into an experience of perception. Göttin's practice includes wall drawings and spatial interventions. He is also the founder of Hebel, an artist-run exhibition space in Basel (CH).

Jan van der Ploeg has been using the motif Grip for his paintings since 1997. This motif is a ready-made in the form of a horizontal, long rectangle with rounded corners, derived from the hand-holes in the cardboard boxes used for removals. It is essential for the artist that this is an easily recognized everyday form and the starting point, the module, for his wall paintings as well as his intimate panel paintings. Van der Ploeg's color vocabulary - consisting of black, white and contrasting shades like pink, purple or orange - as well as the smooth, untextured surface of his works - achieved through layers of glazed paint - reinforce the impression that color has been reduced to a mere surface.
Yet, the combination of these color fields with precisely related dimensions creates a remarkably three-dimensional quality. Van der Ploeg's Grips link painting, sculpture, system, and seriality. They simultaneously fit in with the everyday world in their overall effect, and function as signs and ornaments, while producing a painterly illusion. The Grips are a design device that allows formal reduction, but also inexhaustible variations. They create a maximum effect with a minimum of artistic resources. Van der Ploeg's practice includes paintings, wall paintings, private, and public commissions, works on paper and editions. He also is the director of PS, an artist-run exhibition space in Amsterdam (NL).

For the past twenty years, Philippe Van Snick has been working with the concept of time, specifically, the dualism of day and night, or the lightness and darkness that signify its passing. The main issue of the artist's work is to introduce the physical into painting for the viewer to experience the frontiers of painting as a concrete experience. For Van Snick, light and color are both scientific, objective descriptions as well as subjective codes inspired by our everyday experience. Van Snick's practice includes paintings, wall paintings, works on paper and editions.

Image: Daniel Göttin

vernissage 28 11 2003, 18.00 - 20.00

opening hours: fri - sat - sun 14.00 - 18.00

closed 26 12 2003

location:
CCNOA OLV van Vaakstraat 2 Rue Notre Dame du Sommeil B - 1000 Bruxelles
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