Brandt New

Rutger Brandt Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with ‘Brandt new’ artists in a multidisciplinary genre, varying from ceramics, textile, and painting. The Brandt New exhibition brings together nostalgic black and white oil paintings by Bastien Pery, an embroidered jute flag by Fanja Bouts, a ceramic hand series by Antonino De Caro and modern oil paintings by Christian Hellmich.

Bastien Pery 

Between intimate memories and vague reminiscences, Bastien Pery explores fragments of life through black and white oil paintings. His process involves a graphical representation, a pictorial reinterpretation of vivid emotions from the past, sometimes fleeting. Bastien uses family photographs, always imbued with a certain nostalgia. Subsequently, he adds filters, enhances color saturation, and plays with the brightness of light, and the depth of shadows. 

Fanja Bouts 

Fanja Bouts explores the contrast between the playful and the absurdly serious in her colorful embroidery. In her new work, A dire display of feudal fiends in scenes of serfdom, Bouts examines aspects of modern feudalism through an embroidered jute flag. The work presents 12 scenes in a neo-feudal reality, where historical and modern feudal elements in society stand together as embroidered landscapes. Each of these scenes show their cause and/or effect of living in a post-capitalist world: from new legislative borders and increased inequality to data currency. 

Antonino De Caro     

In his ceramic hand series Antonino De Caro examines the cultural opponents of southern Italian expressiveness and the modest northern European tradition. When De Caro moved to the Netherlands, he became conscious of his overt hand gestures. Compared to the Dutch  language, hand gestures are very much part of the Italian language.  De Caro became interested in his everyday actions, which previously seemed so ordinary, reminding him of his Italian origins.

Christian Hellmich    

The work of Christian Hellmich can be seen as a remarkable and gloomy revival of modernist representational painting. His works are characterised by abstract curves and the asymmetrical arrangement of color blocks, which are used to develop a kind of geometric grid pattern. The fragments he chooses derive from a large personal archive of photographs, magazine clippings, internet sources and postcards.

You are welcome to come and view the Brandt New exhibition from October 14 until November 11!