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↳ Expositie ‘Changing Times‘
with new works by:
Stephan van den Burg (work on paper)
Philippe van Gele (paitings)
Casper Verborg (paintings)
Sigrid van Woudenberg (drawings)
Vernissage:
Saturday 17 May 15 – 18h
Galerie Helder, Den Haag
17 May – 21 June 2025
Upcoming: First edition of Studio Noise, a new zine with collages, sketches, photographs, archival material, try-outs, proposals and fragments from the studio floor.
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↳ Fragments, Processes and Overlaps
Stephan van den Burg (drawings)
Wouter Eelkman Rooda (paintings)
Galerie Helder, Den Haag
22 June – 20 July 2024
↳ ‘Borrowed settings’ is a collection of drawings where collage and remixing play an important part. Drawings, paintings, found images and photographs are cut up and collaged into new compositions and redrawn. Flowing pencil or brush strokes are broken up, flipped and replaced, finding new chance connections. Glitches and the small white spaces that are the residu of the collage proces, appear as new elements in the drawings.
Untitled (Borrowed Settings#16), 2024
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled (Borrowed Settings #2), 2020
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled (Borrowed Settings #7), 2022
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
↳ In the last weekend of the exhibition ‘Studio Noise’ at Wetering Gallery, Amsterdam (19 October – 16 November 2013) I presented an additional selection of new drawings during a ‘aftershow’ (Gold Grid / Cold Grits)
↳ Two afterstudies (2012), redrawn close-ups of older drawings (pencil on paper, 29.7 x 21 cm each)
5 Redrawn details of afterstudies | pencil on paper, 10.3 x 15.4 (each)
Gold Grid / Cold Grits, 2013
A diptych with a small, loosely drawn grid with gold marker and a drawing of an enlarged detail of this drawing.
> Gold Grid, gold marker on paper, 21 x 14.8 cm
> Cold Grits, pencil on paper, 40 x 28 cm
Untitled (invitation card), 2013
pencil on paper
14.8 x 21 cm
↳ The Conqueror Serie is a large collection of drawings in envelopes, showing drawn fragments of images selected from various news media (Conqueror refers to the specific brand of the envelop). The window of the envelop frames the selection, only showing a part of the chosen image, thereby loosing a clear context and meaning. The drawings were shown in grids of various dimensions, in constantly changing selections and compositions, forming new combinations and new stories.
Conqueror Serie (171 and 133), 2011
colored pencil on paper in envelop
22 x 15.6 (each)
Conqueror Serie (198 and 203), 2012
colored pencil on paper in envelop
22 x 15.6 (each)
↳ The drawings from the series ‘samplebook pages’ are based on reworked and remixed patterns and motifs from the cloth sample books of the Leidsche Katoen Maatschappij (De Helder & Co.) and Firma Haykens & Co. fromthe 19th/early 20th century (from the collection of Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden). Images of the old samplebook patterns are cut up, multiplied, reversed, rotated and edited to create a new composition. The small imperfections that arise as a result of the editing process become an integral part of the drawing.
Untitled (Samplebook Pages #11), 2020
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled (Samplebook Pages #4), 2019
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled (Samplebook Pages #1), 2019
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
Untitled (Samplebook Pages #12), 2020
colored pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
↳ Style (can’t help it), 2010 | This work was a first example of a series of works in which the outcome of a drawing is determined by imperfect tools. A perfect grid of lines was the intention, but was hindered by the use of two battered geometry sets. Drawing and tools are shown side by side. Another example is Perfect Grid (2011), below. A small wooden stick with small notches was used as a ruler to draw a ‘perfect grid’. The drawing is pinned to the wall, and rests on the stick.
Perfect grid, 2011
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm
Style (can’t help it), 2010 (detail)
colored pencil on paper + set triangles
14.8 x 14.8 cm
Perfect Grid, 2011
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm
Perfect Grid, 2011 (detail)
pencil on paper, wooden stick
29.7 x 21 cm
↳ Blue / Residu (2010) was the first in a serie of polyptychs showing the complete result of a drawing: a finished blue monochrome and the residu of pencil dust. Later variations (such as ‘Violet/residu’, 2010) also contained the underpaper, used while drawing.
Blue, 2010
(from diptych ‘Blue/Residu’)
colored pencil on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm
Residu, 2010
(from diptych ‘Blue/Residu’)
colored pencil, glue on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm
Violet Residu, 2010
colored pencil, glue on paper
14.8 x 14.8 cm (x4)
↳ 12-pack drawings [2015] | Serie of drawings made with the complete content of one pack Palomino Blackwing-pencils, bound together with a rubber band.
12-pack drawing #3, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
12-pack drawing #1, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
12-pack drawing #5, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm
12-pack drawing #6, 2015
pencil on paper
29.7 x 21 cm