drawings, sculptures
May 9th – June 7th 2009
opening Saturday May 9th at 4 pm
Martin Assig, Bedeutung, wax and pigment on panel, 34 x 46,5 cm
In the work of Martin Assig (1959) a combination of corporality and spirituality is often noticeable: the body is represented as the vulnerable house of the soul. Recently, Martin Assig made a series of drawings of faces and hearts with the title Beute (booty). This booty consists of the motives the artist has made himself familiar with. Heads and hearts are part of it.
The heads have been represented in broad lines, in a schematic almost primitive way.
The faces are totally covered with hair, the eyes are closed and the mouths held wide open. Sometimes words have been written on the teeth, such as ‘kein Hunger’ (no hunger), ‘alles alles’ (all, all), ‘warum essen’ (why eat), indicating a sort of warding off of calamity. Below the hearts are texts like ‘Du warst von Anfang an dabei’ (you were there from the start), or ‘Werde ich es merken wenn es geschieht’ (will I notice when it happens), which refer to love and death. The drawings were made in charcoal on transparent paper, on which liquid wax was subsequently applied. This gives the drawings a warm, almost painterly character.
In his paintings Martin Assig also uses wax, which is mixed with pigment. For several paintings he used existing canvases of amateur painters, which he partly painted over with ornamental patterns. These are composed of several round cores, from which lines are extending across the surface, like energy sources emanating radiation.
Galerie Maurits van de Laar. Herderstraat 6, 2512 CV The Hague, The Netherlands
open Wed–Sat 12-06 pm
www.mauritsvandelaar.nl
May 9th – June 7th 2009
opening Saturday May 9th at 4 pm
Martin Assig, Bedeutung, wax and pigment on panel, 34 x 46,5 cm
In the work of Martin Assig (1959) a combination of corporality and spirituality is often noticeable: the body is represented as the vulnerable house of the soul. Recently, Martin Assig made a series of drawings of faces and hearts with the title Beute (booty). This booty consists of the motives the artist has made himself familiar with. Heads and hearts are part of it.
The heads have been represented in broad lines, in a schematic almost primitive way.
The faces are totally covered with hair, the eyes are closed and the mouths held wide open. Sometimes words have been written on the teeth, such as ‘kein Hunger’ (no hunger), ‘alles alles’ (all, all), ‘warum essen’ (why eat), indicating a sort of warding off of calamity. Below the hearts are texts like ‘Du warst von Anfang an dabei’ (you were there from the start), or ‘Werde ich es merken wenn es geschieht’ (will I notice when it happens), which refer to love and death. The drawings were made in charcoal on transparent paper, on which liquid wax was subsequently applied. This gives the drawings a warm, almost painterly character.
In his paintings Martin Assig also uses wax, which is mixed with pigment. For several paintings he used existing canvases of amateur painters, which he partly painted over with ornamental patterns. These are composed of several round cores, from which lines are extending across the surface, like energy sources emanating radiation.
Galerie Maurits van de Laar. Herderstraat 6, 2512 CV The Hague, The Netherlands
open Wed–Sat 12-06 pm
www.mauritsvandelaar.nl
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