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Anne van As
An ongoing journey 2015-2022, oil, acrylics, mixed media on mdf, ca 7 x 9 cm
Anne van As is inspired by northern countries, the mountains and the animal kingdom from cold and temperate places. But her paintings and drawings are more than a mere record of visible reality. In a clear, figurative style, she depicts familiar subjects such as a polar bear, a rabbit or a deer, or more abstractly, a mountain. They are all subjects that evoke a certain degree of endearment or recognition. On closer inspection, however, an uncanny feeling soon creeps up on you.
That feeling comes from the way Van As puts her subjects on canvas. The aura of her work is the result of a well-considered set of choices: from the cut-outs and simplified forms chosen by Van As, to the somewhat cool colour choices and the manner of painting in which she meticulously applies paint layer by layer very thinly. The smallest details are decisive. This is how Van As arrives at images that have a dreamlike, gentle quality but which, despite their initially accessible subjects, are difficult to interpret.
Exhibitions with galerie with tsjalling:
2023 Cold Outside, with Anne Mensinga & Sara van Vliet
2022 Copy/Paste, groupshow
2022 Art Noord IV, Museum Belvédère Heerenveen
2022 KunstRai 2022, Amsterdam
2021 Sisyphus, duo show with Niek Hendrix
2021 Solostand, KunstRai 2021, art fair
2021 Art The Hague Online
2020 Taart, groupshow
2019 The Great Escape, groupshow
2019 Art & Antik Messe Münster, art fair
2018 Tjielp, with Jeroen Allart & Beate Hoïng
2017 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, art fair
2017 Remote, solo
2017 For Real, Cruiseterminal, Amsterdam, art fair
2016 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, art fair
2015 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, art fair
2015 Trust with Erik Buijs
2014 Art The Hague, Fokker Terminal Den Haag, art fair
2013 Don’t Feed the Animals groupshow
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