NEW NEIGHBOURS

Voor de tentoonstelling NEW NEIGHBOURS in 37PK werd haar werk gekoppeld aan dat van twee Nederlandse kunstenaars. Waar Bogers zich louter begeeft op het platte vlak manifesteren Willem Besselink en Thom van Rijckevorsel zich nadrukkelijk in de ruimte. Toch is er veel wat deze 'nieuwe buren' bindt. Ook hun werk komt voort uit vlakken en structuren, uit rijmende vormen en ritmes. De getekende lijn is ook in hun ruimtelijke werk steeds aanwezig, net als de kleine onvolkomenheden. De menselijke maat is in NEW NEIGHBOURS steeds nabij.

Tegelijkertijd aan de tentoonstelling in 37PK vindt in Horizonverticaal PASSENGER plaats, een solotentoonstelling van Britta Bogers. Op zondag 22 november openen beide exposities: om 15 uur bij Horizonverticaal en om 16 uur bij 37PK.

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At the invitation of Horizonverticaal and 37PK, Britta Bogers was a guest artist at the DOC4 artist-in-residence studio in Haarlem for a two-month residency. The Cologne-based artist creates abstract, geometric works on paper that straddle the line between drawing and painting. Her works feature repetitions of lines, stripes, planes, and grids, applied with great precision alongside and over one another until the balance of a perfect composition is achieved. Yet this perfection is also an illusion: small imperfections continually surface in the work.

For the exhibition NEW NEIGHBOURS at 37PK, her work was paired with that of two Dutch artists. Whereas Bogers operates exclusively on a two-dimensional plane, Willem Besselink and Thom van Rijckevorsel express themselves emphatically in three-dimensional space. Yet there is much that unites these ‘new neighbours’. Their work, too, stems from planes and structures, from rhyming forms and rhythms. The drawn line is ever-present in their spatial work as well, as are the small imperfections. The human scale is always close at hand in NEW NEIGHBOURS.

Concurrently with the exhibition at 37PK, Horizonverticaal is hosting PASSENGER, a solo exhibition by Britta Bogers. Both exhibitions open on Sunday, November 22; at 3:00 p.m. at Horizonverticaal and at 4:00 p.m. at 37PK.