Pure Painting 1983 – 2023
Jos van Merendonk
September 16, 2023 – February 16, 2024
“Refusing to add at least nominally to the ever-expanding line
of innovative modern art, the artist makes use of an idiosyncratic,
self-realized Ur-phänomen, actually on originary work that
contains the characteristic lines of movement that will furnish a
fundament for all the variations to come. As a willful act, this
founding veers ever further away from any kind of self-contained art
whose images do not relate to the exterior world or have a symbolic
meaning. More than a flat surface, more than physical presence, more
than the artist’s physical dialogue with materials and tools, the very
fact of the positing of a fundament carries with it an implicit
commentary. ” Stefan Majakowski