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Liesbeth Rahder
André de Jong
Maayke Schuitema
Jan van Eden

Esther Levigne
Ger Meinema
Jorge Gay Molins
Jean Bilquin

Achnaton Nassar
Philippe Bouttens
Colette Curfs
Milous Heunks

Tomoko Kawachi
Patricia Lippert
Herv
é Martijn
Anton Martineau
Tejo Philips
Pol Mara
Mapi Rivera
Chiel Vluggen
Marianne Vollmer
Sadik Kwaish
Josef Karl   

Unni Askeland
Evelyn Jansen
Harry van der Woud
 

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Upcoming exhibition

6th through  28th November 2010

 

 

Liesbeth Rahder

 

 

 

Liesbeth Rahder (1955) received her training at the Gerrit Rietveld academy in Amsterdam from 1980 to1985. Rahder, as a painter, is a gifted storyteller. Her work is largely autobiographic and she is using a very personal symbolism. Although not always easily accessible to the viewer, one is attracted as if by magnetism. In a way, her work has the very Dutch qualities of intimacy, that are known from the fine interiors of the 17th Century Golden Age of the Netherlands. In her work too, the overall composition is made up from an abundance of homely details, but there is a surprising magnificence in these domestic themes. In her most recent work she tells the human story of relationships, there are several figures talking to each other, or a lonely figure confessing to his own shadow. The viewer knows himself part of the conversation. It is like being placed in a situation you experienced before.   
She paints intuitively, starting with large structured colour fields over the entire surface and then introduces a figuration of small icons that can be extremely detailed, with minute inscriptions often scratched in the wet paint with a palette knife or the backside of a brush. The figuration is like her handwriting and the cohesion or conflicts between all these figures draw the viewer into the painting, inevitably forcing him into making his/her own story. However narrative and recognizable her figuration, she always seems to follow the inevitable impulse of the brush or palette knife and thereby brings out the peculiarities of the material that she is working with. She works predominantly in oil on canvas, but the same sensitivity and sublime feeling for materials is evident from her sculptures in which she often combines natural stone with bronze, wrought iron and other materials.

 

 

 

 

In the centre, 2010, Olieverf op linnen, 130x130 cm, Ref. ra1001

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indoors, 2010, Olieverf op linnen,  130x130 cm, Ref. ra1002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the couch, 2010Olieverf en gemengde techniek op linnen, 130x180 cm, Ref. ra1003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shadows, 2010, Olieverf en gemengde techniek op linnen, 180x130 cm, Ref. ra1004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

z.t., 2010,  Olieverf en gemengde techniek op linnen, 180x130cm, Ref. ra1005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interiors III, 2007 Olie/papier/linnen, 120x50 cm cm, Ref. ra0730

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In between 2,  2006, Olieverf op linnen, 50x50 cm, Ref. ra0606 en ra0607

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kunstkoopregeling van de Mondriaan Stichting van toepassing

 

 

 

 

Sculptures previous periods

 

Paintings of previous periods

Paintings 2002 - 2005

Paintings 2006 - 2007

Paintings 2007 - onwards