Erik van der Grijn “Sum Zero” técnica mixta sobre tela, tríptico 200x240cm.
Este miércoles 22 de Octubre a las 19 inaugura Erik Adriaan van der Grijn su muestra de pinturas más recientes SUM ZERO*, en la Galería Laura Haber, Juncal 885 casi esquina Suipacha, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Erik van der Grijn, es un gran artista holandés por nacimiento, errante por opción y argentino por pasión, de quién sus trabajos son poseídos y mostrados en muchos museos e instituciones de todo el mundo, su rígida y famosa paleta de colores amarilla y negra, en ocasiones enriquecida por el azul celestial y el rojo de la sangre, son, como él dice, advertencias para prestar la atención, para testimoniar.
“SUM ZERO”
VAN DER GRIJN Se ha pasado la vida recordándonos, visual y enérgicamente, sobre los peligros y las injusticias que acechan nuestro mundo.
En esta, su obra más reciente, él concluye que, a pesar de todas las fuerzas de esperanza y progreso, no hemos superado las desgracias y desastres originados por el hombre, al contrario, cada vez hay más agresiones.... Al final, es SUM ZERO*
*SUM ZERO deriva de la filosofía de la teoría del juego, que sostiene que cada ganancia implica una pérdida semejante.
Erik van der Grijn “María de Buenos Aires” homenaje a Astor Piazzolla. técnica mixta sobre tela, cuatro paneles, 172x224cm.
Erik van der Grijn*, the yellow fellow, is one of the most important contemporary abstract expressionist in the world.
* Erik Adriann van der Grijn* (b.1941) / www.vandergrijn.com
Born in the Netherlands, Erik Adriaan van der Grijn studied at the Royal College of Art in the Hague. In 1964 he moved to Ireland where he regularly showed at the Living Art exhibitions and had several solo shows at the Hendriks Gallery. He received several public commissions including the design of the Sir William Orpen stamp for An Post in 1977. Since 1995 van der Grijn has divided his time between the United States and South America exhibiting regularly in New York and Buenos Aires. His art is in many major public collections including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Hugh Lane, UCD and the OPW.
Erik van der Grijn “Cruz Empaquetada” oleo sobre tela, 150x150cm
So what is this work?
It is painting. Although he has done installations, conceptual works, sculptures and prints, Erik is a painter. He usually works with oil paints on canvas... another wonderful quality of his oil paint is the colours: van der Grijn has always used and loved what is called cadmium yellow, a very bright yellow used as an attention-gutter and warning colour on readings in various countries.
Since 1992, all of van der Grijn's works has pertained to what he calls injustice. At law, this is the denial of the rights of another person, but in the broader scheme of things, We would say that justice is a human concept but hardly a human practice. In fact the works have ranged about injustice in various countries like such as Yugoslavia and Somalia, even Greece, as well as Northern Ireland, with his monumental work "Nunca Más" (Never Again!), and now with "Sum Zero", in Argentina... but van der Grijn is not a bleeding-heart liberal who sponsors lost causes all over the world. The purpose of his work is painting.
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