Jos van merendonk

1956
Tilburg, NL

Solo Exhibitions

2023 PURE PAINTING, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, DE2020 JOS VAN MERENDONK | THE COMMUNITY OF THE PAINTED, Parts Project, Den Haag

2014 PURE MATTER, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, DE

1994 COUPLET III, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL

Group Exhibitions

2008 THERE IS DESIRE LEFT (KNOCK, KNOCK), Kunstmuseum Bern, CH, Museum Wiesbaden, DE

2002 LIFE IN A GLASS HOUSE, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

1996 UNFOLD, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL

1993 HUTTENLOCHER, LASKER, VAN MERENDONK, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL

1991 OP WARE GROOTTE: TEKENINGEN, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Collections

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Stedelijk Museum het prinsenhof, Delft, Fortis Stichting Kunst en Historisch Bezit, Utrecht, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem, ABN-AMRO kunstcollectie, Amsterdam, Kunstcollectie De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Collectie Cees van den Burg, Den Haag, Sammlung Mondstudio, Bad Homburg, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Collectie Lagaay/Van klink, Oegstgeest

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Looking at the paintings of Jos van Merendonk (b.1956, Tilburg) is somehow like watching black-and-white TV. Given that we are unaccustomed to it now, it might require a moment of adjustment. In Van Merendonk’s works, the world is depicted in green and white. These are the only colors present, apart from the pencil or charcoal lines that underlie the compositions and remain partially visible. In the late 1980s, the artist chose to use only one color in his subsequent paintings: chromium oxide green, commonly known as industrial green. This decision was about simplification, about eliminating choices that were irrelevant to him. He did not want his paintings to be beautiful due to color combinations. To touch on life in a painting, there were other things to address and focus on, such as gesture, drawing, and texture. And these aspects all relate to the notion (and question) of expression.

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