Duo exhibition Wim Biewenga and Lieve van Loon
About this activity.
Lieve van Loon (Groningen, 2002)
A satisfied table after a lavish dinner, the pear in the fruit bowl that has been waiting for days to be eaten. Lieve’s work depicts everyday scenes that we no longer really notice, yet they tell a story. Lieve has a fascination with everyday objects and transforms them until they lose their function and take on a form of their own. By then placing the objects in scenes, she emphasizes their mutual relationship and reveals everyday moments of coming together. Lieve does this using various materials and techniques such as paintings, pencil drawings, and stained glass. Lieve aims to reveal the beauty in the simplicity of objects and the way they connect with one another. In doing so, she invites us to look more closely at what connects us.
Lieve graduated cum laude from Academie Minerva in 2024 (BA Illustration and Animation / Product Design), is a co-founder of METRO C, and lives and works in Groningen.
Wim Biewenga ('t Zandt, 1939)
For Wim, memories are often a source of inspiration in his painting, though the sentiment behind those memories is no longer of importance. The memory is, first and foremost, a given from which he works. Just as his characteristic choice of materials and colors is a given. Thus, the crow, the dog, the cloud, the black spot, the Meccano, and the amaryllis are, for him, tools to achieve his goal. Meaningful or meaningless. While the images do invite association, there is never a single, unambiguous answer—sometimes due to the absurdity, sometimes due to the humor, or the text. The work reveals a world of silence, space, and poetry. Of particular note are the drawings he created on paper from the work diaries of the “1930s” belonging to his father, Tjasse Willem, a farmer at “Het Hoogeland.” The purely businesslike text has become the starting point for a poetic expression of memories of the past.
Since 1978, Wim has held solo and group exhibitions both in the Netherlands and abroad. His work is included in various collections. Wim is self-taught and lives and works in Havelte.
De Kunsthof.
Location.
De Kunsthof
Blankenstein 2
9901 AX Appingedam
tel 0620124454
www.dekunsthof.nl/