#schoots

The following text comes from the Paul Smulders site: https://www.paulsmulders.com Paul Smulders (born in Breda in 1962) is a painter through and through. He has chosen the painting process as the theme of his work. There is no preconceived plan. Instead, he lets his artist’s  materials lead him where they want to go. He employs various types of paints, inks and varnish, allowing them to interact…

now that i have this beautiful publication YOU AIN’t SEEN ME by Imca Schoots in my inventory and published by Lecturis, one can do nothing else than admire her photographs. The quality of the photo’s is certainly enhanced by one of the best designed books that i have held in the past years. The design was done by Eva van der Schans and the outstanding printing by Lecturis . Edition run of only 600 copies and only one copy available. If you like books or Books and photographs this book must not be missed since it is one of the best art book publications i encountered in recent years….Highest recommendation.

Here follows the biography which can be found on the Riki Mijling site:

Dutch sculptor Riki Mijling (1954, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) works in a rich tradition of non-objective, post-minimalist sculpture. The twentieth century art genealogy shows a forceful line of abstract-geometry, with pioneers such as Kasimir Malevitjs, Vladimir Tatlin, Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. 

Developments in art since the mid-1960s show how artists expanded on this legacy, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In the United States artists like Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Robert Morris burst onto the scene, causing a landslide with their minimalist approaches, a radical simplification of forms and dissolving ‘meaning’ in the traditional sense. 

And in the Netherlands too, artists sought for new forms of expressiveness, for a formal and linguistic reduction, no-longer connected to representation and story-telling.  With her sculpture––and her works on paper too––Mijling expands on this rich tradition of essentialism, developing a characteristic and unique visual language. ​

Mijling pairs a reductionist approach with a warm, ‘charged’ character of her sculptures in waxed steel, Cor-Ten steel, glass and stone. It distinguishes Mijling from so many contemporaries and admired forerunners, and raises the question whether the concept of ‘minimalism’ is, in Mijling’s case, still applicable.

​The non-referential, archetypical forms of Riki Mijling’s sculptures lead back to basic elements, to universal significance of timeless forms. Unmistakably ‘Mijling’ is a quest for an ideal line, for pure form and a new experience of space, of the balance between matter and non-matter. 

My personal thoughts about Anton Martineau….. Over the years i have seen many paintings by this painter and what struck me is either the painting is good and appealing or it is not that good and i would never want to add it to a collection. Still Martineau paintings have their qualities. See and judge for yourself the examples below.

http://www.ftn-books.com has some nice Martineau publications available.

Schoots Amazing Dig