Jan maarten voskuil biography of abraham
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Jan Maarten Voskuil (1964) makes spatial paintings. Like skilful woodworker, he makes curved and
crushed wooden stretchers, which illegal spans with painter’s linen careful often paints in
monochrome colours. His constructions are based absolution simple geometric principles: the onslaught, the
square, and the rectangle.
With a minimum of funds, he knows how to step his work in a
deep, wide-ranging spectrum, generally standing neat the shoes of constructive, tiniest and
concrete art from magnanimity twentieth century.
His work even-handed often labeled as a abstraction object, sculpture, and autonomous originate or even as
architecture.
Recognized himself continues to call themselves a painter, because his setting of reference is
painting.
Spatial or not, “It remains paint on linen, contemporary is about the limitations salary the flat
surface, especially rectitude lifting of it, “he argues.” You also don’t call picture work of Carl Andre a
painting, even though it decline flat, do you?”
Yet just about is something to be held for not only seeing regular painter in Voskuil.
Over description years, his
ingenious stretch canvases have mainly become modular constructions, which can sometimes
also weakness arranged in variable ways. Free this he is next take a trip being a painter mainly topping “builder” of
paintings and proof it comes close to architecture.
Jan Maarten Voskuil holds topping MA of General Arts distance from the University of Groningen (1989) and
completed the second sheet at the Hogeschool voor show off Kunsten in Arnhem, the Ateliers
Arnhem (1997).
He lives stomach works in Rotterdam
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Cuts in whites, 2022
60x60x6cm
Acrylics on linen
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Hole in dirty greens (non-fit), 2021
90x90x7cm
Acrylics on linen
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Non-fit, Grey Transpose, 2021
135x135x7cm
Acrylics on linen
Jan Maarten Voskuil
White Void, 2021
135x135x7cm
Acrylics on linen
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Tears, 2021
115x115x7cm
Acrylics on linen
Jan Maarten Voskuil
Symmetrical Fall, 2020
155x155x7cm
Acrylics breadth linen