Renze Dijkema – Walks the Coast
About this activity.
Artist Renze Dijkema walks along the coast for two or three months a year. Every so often he takes a picture of what is in front of him, where he is walking to. The horizon in the center of the image, the water on the right and the land on the left. These photos, which find their way into photo albums and Instagram, are the basis for the paintings that can be seen in the exhibition at galerie with tsjalling:.
Dijkema is therefore both a photographer and a painter. After his training as a classical painter at the Minerva Academy, he graduated as a photographer at the second-phase training of the Frank Mohr Institute. There he started making still lifes, which he stopped about four years ago to focus on images of the coast. Starting on the Dutch Wadden, he soon expanded his territory to the area from the Danish Esbjerg, to the end of the French west coast at the Spanish border. After the opening of the exhibition, he immediately moves on to the south-east coast of France.
From a distance, the paintings themselves appear to be almost photographs, but when you come closer, you see that they are actually quite basic and abstracted images. The shapes are sleek, the brushstrokes clearly visible. When you take your distance again, the photo-realistic image reappears. Light and atmosphere play an important role. There are sunrises and sunsets, fog, or overcast days. If you love the sea, the senses are immediately activated, you smell the salty sand and the sea and hear the murmur of the water.
A new series consists of smaller paintings of all waterways leading to Groningen, such as the Winschoterdiep and the Noord-Willemskanaal. Dijkema painted them on rough jute in earthy tones, which refer to the peat and clay from which the canals were dug. These works also give a photographic illusion from a distance, namely that of an old black-and-white photo, but whoever comes closer is immediately absorbed in the earthiness of the works.
galerie with tsjalling:.
galerie with tsjalling: is dé galerie voor hedendaagse kunst in Groningen, met een focus op interessante, toegankelijke kunst. Tekeningen en ander werk op papier hebben een centrale plaats in het galerieprogramma. Andere media, zoals schilderijen en sculptuur zijn ook regelmatig onderdeel van de exposities. De kunstwerken die geëxposeerd worden variëren van hyperrealistisch tot abstract. De galerie werkt graag met ambitieuze en enthousiaste kunstenaars in verschillende stadia van hun professionele carrière.
Location.
galerie with tsjalling:
Kostersgang 26-a
9711CX Groningen
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