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Margriet Smulders
Margriet Smulders composes flower still-lives with an edge. Viewers are invited to lose themselves in the wondrous representation of flowers, fruit and voluptuous glass forms that refer to mythology and the Old Masters. Smulders uses water and other liquids to produce reflection of the visual elements in her work. In this way it is difficult not to lose oneself in the disorientating flood of bacchanal imagery.
In ‘Siren Blood’ Smulders presents a series of new, more playful works inspired by a recent trip to the Himalayas. Viewers of the exhibition will be able to have a ‘total experience’ in the middle section of the gallery; sitting on a large cloud-formed swing, surrounded by a series of dark blue, abstract works and completely seduced by the magical force of Smulders creativity.
Bouke de Vries
The work of Bouke de Vries also has distinct connections with the Golden Age. After having worked with several different fashion designers, De Vries made a career move into ceramic restoration. In this new line of work he was regularly offered pieces given up by their owners that, despite the traces of their use, had not lost any of their original charm. In his ‘exloded’ works, he takes advantage of this characteristic of these pieces. Instead of attempting to erase the traces of use and damage, he elaborates on it, so that these works gain a new lease of life. They become still-lives permeated with a ‘Vanitas’ character: a popular theme with many contemporaries of the 17thcentury ceramists who made these objects.