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Arno Kramer, Rineke Marsman, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra
'New Work', 14th April - 30th May 2007
Dutch Exhibition at Cavanacor GalleryCavanacor Gallery are presenting the first three person exhibition by leading Dutch artists Arno Kramer, Tjibbe Hooghiemstra and Rineke Marsman. All these artists have exhibited in Ireland before but never as a trio. It is Marsman and Hooghiemstra’s first time to exhibit at Cavanacor Gallery.
Arno Kramer lives in Broekland, a small village in eastern Holland. He has been exhibiting in Ireland for over a decade now and has shown widely in Limerick City Gallery of Art, Cavanacor Gallery, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Green on Red Gallery, RHA, and Ormeau Baths Gallery. Through his work Kramer maintains he is attempting to uncover the ‘reconnaissance of the back of the soul, the spirit and the heart.’ Kramer’s work is featured in a number of collections in Ireland and Holland such as the Stedelijk Museum, Teylers Museum, Rijksmuseum Tenthe Enschede, Limerick City Gallery and the Model Niland Gallery in Sligo.
Tjibbe Hooghiemstra is based in Fryslân in the Netherlands, but is a frequent visitor and regular exhibitor in Ireland. “Hooghiemstra’s kinship to Ireland is apparent in his painting. In his practise, we witness a poetic, sensory response to nature, landscape and literature…The paintings are characterised by restraint in terms of colour and composition while also possessing a fragmentary quality…[and they] remain enigmatic and half glimpsed.” Marianne O’Kane Boal, Circa 104, Summer 2003. When writing of Hooghiemstra’s work in 1999, Jurrie Poot of the Stedelijk Museum pointed out that the literal meaning of the Dutch word for ‘drawing’ is ‘making signs.’ This lends a degree of clarity to Hooghiemstra’s approach and indeed Kramer’s as each infuses their work with a dynamic mix of symbols.
Rineke Marsman produced an intense series entitled ‘Retrace’ based on the Jewish children who suffered during World War II. According to Jonieke van Es “This title - in the meaning of 'searching' and 'retrieving'- is closely connected with Le memorial des enfants, and also with the title of Marsman's 1992 graduation presentation: Sporen (Traces). The element of remembering, recalling - by painting - things that existed in the past, remains a noticeable constant factor in her work.” Her poignant paintings incorporate a subtle palette, with figures detailed alongside blocks of colour.
The exhibition will continue until 31st May.