Artists:		Chris Herenius & Ed Ubels
Techniques:		oil paint
Date of exhibition:		Sunday April 24 - Sunday June 12, 2005

Chris Herenius & Ed Ubels

Chris Herenius, Stillife with postcard | zoom |

As no other Chris Herenius (1943) fits in the Dutch tradition of having a keen eye for detail and the rendering of texture, and he manages to combine these with a refinement which is almost oriental: a feather in a bowl, a dried-up insect on a piece of crumpled paper. He often plays a subtle game with the organic and the mathematic: the natural perfection of the feather in the perfect oval of the bowl. Thus, his meticulously crafted works are both tender and delicate. There is stillness and calm, and there are whispers of transience and vulnerability. And although one could have a really good laugh with this artist, in his studio he is the silent monk, totally wrapped up in the continuous illumination of life humble and vulnerable.

Ed Ubels, Early morning hunebed | zoom |

Those who want to learn more about monks, must travel to Ireland, where Ed Ubels (1944) has for many years been a much appreciated guest, particularly in those pubs where one can still run into a traditional, real-life bard. Ed is fascinated by the roughness of the landscape. He paints plein-air watercolours and makes hundreds of digital sketches with his camera. Back at his home he goes to work with these. But he doesn't work them out literally. He creates a completely new and unseen island. His work is very earthly. He plants rocks as if they were menhirs, unrolls massive tapestries of grass, lets the heavens glow, and waves smash. Yet his works are mostly small-sized and painted with utmost precision.

Two painters, one earthly and one heavenly, but both very keen in their observation. On the occasion of this exhibition, both painters for once chose to paint the very same object: a netsuke (a Japanese miniature sculpture, worn as a kind of button at the end of a cord). In Chris' vision the netsuke rises up like a pagoda, with two humble rhinoceros beetles at its base. Ed just planted his netsuke like a huge piece of rock, washed-up on the shores of a magic landscape.

DVD

On the occasion of this exhibition a splendid DVD has been made, on which you can feast your eyes for 122 minutes. There are a great many paintings on it, as well as recordings in the studios of both artists, revealing some secrets of their techniques. Finally on the DVD there is a rare interview the painter Rob Møhlmann had with both his colleagues. It is a limited edition of only 200 copies.

Cover of the DVD | zoom |

Group-exhibition

Parallel to this duo-exhibition there is a group-exhibition of 20 realists, with new works of: Dina Belga, Roland Beyer, Wilfried van den Boorn, Margreet Bosker, Ralph Douglas, Frans Faber, Corry Kooi, Loek Limburg, Dick Oostra, Rein Pol, Maria de Ruiter de Witt, Mieke Schaper, Michiel Schrijver, Peter Smit, Louis Swagerman, Marjolein Vernooij, Maarten Welbergen, Paul Wieggers, Marije van Wieringen, Antoinette Willems

Marjolein Vernooij	Frans Faber	Antoinette Willems	Michiel Schrijver
Wilfried van den Boorn	Peter Smit	Roland Beyer	Louis Swagerman
Ralph Douglas	Rein Pol	Maarten Welbergen	Margreet Bech-Bosker
Dina Belga	Loek Limburg	Dick Oostra	Mieke Schaper
		Paul Wieggers

Marije van Wieringen

Corry Kooy

Maria de Ruiter de Witt

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