UNICOLOR

Unicolor, a group exhibition by Anne Vincent Dijkstra, Bram Hermens, Eliot Allsop and Rick van Strien.

Anne Vincent Dijkstra (1964), lives and works in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands, and the gallery exhibited his work several times before. Dijkstra works with only one color of oil paint, Prussian Blue. Mixed with Titanium White, it creates a whole range of tones, from deep dark blue to bright white. By limiting the use of color, the focus is on form and composition. His work arises from a fascination with the idea of ​​fragmentation. In the ruin paintings this is the splintering of a building into a pile of rubble; in recent pixel paintings it is the construction of the image from separate fragments (squares). It is never entirely clear what exactly we are looking at. The individual squares form an image that only becomes visible from a certain distance. Visible, but rarely fully understandable. The paintings indirectly refer to the existential threats facing humanity. In the series Ruins, man has already disappeared from the picture. In the pixel works he seems to blend in with the environment, which slowly takes him over.

Eliot Allsop drawings are about the ability that people have to self-deception. The world around us is not always what it appears to be. The line between civilization and destruction is thin. With a sense of nostalgia, Allsop shows us a glimpse of the future. A future in which he looks back to the now. Eliot is fascinated by our infinite capacity to destroy ourselves with the world that we create.