Koen van den Broek

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Koen van den Broek

Künstlername:

Koen van den Broek

bevorzugtes Medium:

Malerei

Geburtsjahr:

1973

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Koen van den Broek's paintings examine our experience of landscape, from close-up views of bleak urban corners to huge, empty swathes of countryside. The paintings combine sensual abstraction with precise figuration to create paintings of arresting, cinematic power. Primarily derived from tightly composed, colourful photographs, his works often feature seemingly mundane architectural motifs, such as the kerb of a road, the grid on a sidewalk or the stop barriers of a parking lot. Using his own photographs as a starting point, van den Broek evolves a clear, stripped down, painterly language, using sober, neutral colours punctuated by the occasional instance of midnight blue, blood red, bright orange or pitchy black. San Luis Potosi (2003), for instance, depicts a truck parked in a lot, but the truck itself is pushed to the outer edge of the picture, the great expanse of ground becoming the real subject, with sinister dark shadows like black liquid seeping over the canvas surface. The ongoing series of 'Border' paintings emphasise the function of the canvas as a container, presenting a cropped and arranged view of a much larger subject. The compositions are dynamic and the light often cold and unrelenting, with harsh shadows accentuating even the flimsiest of structures such as the metal struts of a road sign or an upright cylinder of a trash can in Blue Border and Grid #2 (2004). Van den Broek frequently travels through America, and its culture of driving, as well as the expansiveness of its landscape enter into his work. Van den Broek's work invests our sense of looking with renewed energy, opening up to the viewer the experience of a small, overlooked corner of the world, or a sublime vista as if viewed from behind the windscreen of a car. (White Cube, Jay Jobling, London)

wichtigste Ausstellungen von Koen van den Broek

Ausstellung	Veranstalter	Stadt	Land	Datum
Koen van den Broek Curbs & Cracks	Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)	Gent	BE	30.01.2010

Koen van den Broek	KMSKA - Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerpen	Antwerpen	BE	22.01.2010

Koen van den Broek	White Cube/Jay Jopling	London	GB	12.12.2003

COLLECTION XXVII - East from 4°24'	MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst	Antwerpen	BE	04.03.2011

Masterpieces in MAS. Five Centuries of Imagery in Antwerp	Museum aan de Stroom (MAS)	Antwerpen	BE	17.05.2011

Does city/Münster matter? Zum Verhältnis von Bild und Stadt	Kunsthalle Münster	Münster	DE	02.10.2010

Prague Biennale 2	Foundation for Contemporary Art Prague	Prag	CZ	26.05.2005

Die Hände der Kunst		Herford	DE	26.03.2008