Exhibition Harrie Gerritz
About this activity.
Harrie Gerritz (1940) calls himself a landscape painter, but it would take a long time to find a landscape as he paints it. His interest is in 'signs', in concepts, in forms that rarely occur in nature - the square, for example. The artist 'creates' the square by connecting horizontal and vertical lines, such as a horizon and a church tower, or a river and trees. And he is concerned with the 'constructed landscape', to which man has added geometric shapes: the block shapes of a house, a paving stone, a church tower or a fence.
Over the years, his work has become increasingly abstract. The palette is very important. From the very beginning, Harrie works with the colors he knew from the printing world: yellow, blue, red and black. He still manages that well, it suits his tendency to reduction.
"Being an artist means that from morning to night, from spring to winter you are busy with your work as the mainspring of existence. I don't wait for inspiration. I wake up and think: I want to experience something today! Making a good painting, for example," says Harrie Gerritz.
His work has been exhibited in numerous leading museums: we will only mention Museum Boymans van Beuningen, the Cobra Museum and the Singer Museum. He is also known across national borders: he has exhibited internationally in cities such as Hamburg, New York, Moscow and Seoul.
The exhibition features both new works and an overview of his older oeuvre.
Ann's Art.
Galerie en kunstuitleen Ann's Art organiseert per jaar zo'n acht solo- of duo-exposities. Het getoonde werk is overwegend figuratief en kan zowel twee- als driedimensionaal zijn. Het aanbod wordt gekenmerkt door kwaliteit, originaliteit en een goede techniek.
Location.
Ann's Art
Laan Corpus den Hoorn 100
9728 JR Groningen
tel 050 3122822
www.annsart.nl