Jan van der Ploeg
2018 3-31 / 5-30
Wall Painting
Over the past two decades artist Jan van der Ploeg has been exhibiting his work extensively around the world in 100’s of group and solo exhibitions and in public and private commissions. His Telescope installation, Wall Painting, is his first exhibition in China. Born in Amsterdam in 1959, where he still lives, his work carries with it the Dutch tradition of clean, minimal, non objective design from the early 20th c., but blows it up to architectural proportions and surprising pop impressionistic colors into the 21st c. His powerful graphic design configurations, colors, and sometimes, optical color juxtapositions are born out of his relationship with the locations and architecture where his wall paintings are created. Through thoughtful analysis, sheer intuition, and bold execution he creates and moves mountains. Van der Ploeg’s works are interventions into already existing architecture and the flow of life that passes through them. They have the strength needed to subdue and support massive interiors, but at the same time they intelligently work together to enliven and define each other in new ways. Van der Ploeg’s paint flows and follows the rhythms of the stone and glass and carries the passersby on their way. Our individual and intimate experience of a ‘space’ is forever changed.
The Wall Painting exhibition at Telescope consists of two wall works in Gallery 1 and 2, and 3 prints. Van der Ploeg, best known for his enormous wall pieces, also makes prints and paints small canvasses. The paintings and paper works are not studies for his larger murals but they share similar subject matter just without the unending continual flow that the larger wall works convey. They are a unique ‘signature’ on their own.
- James Elaine
扬·范·德·普勒格
《墙面绘画》
2018年3月31日-5月30日
在过去的二十年中,艺术家扬·范·德·普勒格的作品曾在全球一百多个群展、个展、公共及私人委任项目中展出。他在望远镜的展览《墙面绘画》是他在中国的首次个展。他1959年生于阿姆斯特丹,现在依然在这里生活工作,他采用二十世纪早期荷兰传统的干净、极简、非写实的设计,创作出与建筑的空间结构呼应,并使用波普的印象派颜色的二十一世纪的作品。他设计的有力的结构、颜色,有时甚至是视觉上颜色并置的效果,都源自他与作品空间建筑结构以及地点的关系。他以深思熟虑的分析、纯粹的直觉以及大胆的执行造山又移山,在空间中创作出大体量的图形并改变了人们对空间的固有认知方式。扬的作品是对现有建筑及流动其间的生命的干预。墙面绘画既有足够的力量可以支撑整个空间,同时二者又巧妙地以新的方式彼此定义,让空间与绘画都更有生气。范·德·普勒格的绘画带领观众一起跟随空间中墙面与窗户的节奏。我们对于“空间”的私人、私密体验永远被改变了。
展览《墙面绘画》在望远镜的两个空间中分别展出了两个墙面绘画作品和三幅版画作品。虽然以大型的墙面绘画著称,范·德·普勒格也创作版画以及小尺幅布面作品。然而,绘画和纸上作品并不是他为大型墙面绘画所做的研究,而是与墙面绘画拥有同样的主题,只是有一点,它们并不像墙面绘画那样无止境地延续、流动。它们都是独一无二的。
2018 3-31 / 5-30
Wall Painting
Over the past two decades artist Jan van der Ploeg has been exhibiting his work extensively around the world in 100’s of group and solo exhibitions and in public and private commissions. His Telescope installation, Wall Painting, is his first exhibition in China. Born in Amsterdam in 1959, where he still lives, his work carries with it the Dutch tradition of clean, minimal, non objective design from the early 20th c., but blows it up to architectural proportions and surprising pop impressionistic colors into the 21st c. His powerful graphic design configurations, colors, and sometimes, optical color juxtapositions are born out of his relationship with the locations and architecture where his wall paintings are created. Through thoughtful analysis, sheer intuition, and bold execution he creates and moves mountains. Van der Ploeg’s works are interventions into already existing architecture and the flow of life that passes through them. They have the strength needed to subdue and support massive interiors, but at the same time they intelligently work together to enliven and define each other in new ways. Van der Ploeg’s paint flows and follows the rhythms of the stone and glass and carries the passersby on their way. Our individual and intimate experience of a ‘space’ is forever changed.
The Wall Painting exhibition at Telescope consists of two wall works in Gallery 1 and 2, and 3 prints. Van der Ploeg, best known for his enormous wall pieces, also makes prints and paints small canvasses. The paintings and paper works are not studies for his larger murals but they share similar subject matter just without the unending continual flow that the larger wall works convey. They are a unique ‘signature’ on their own.
- James Elaine
扬·范·德·普勒格
《墙面绘画》
2018年3月31日-5月30日
在过去的二十年中,艺术家扬·范·德·普勒格的作品曾在全球一百多个群展、个展、公共及私人委任项目中展出。他在望远镜的展览《墙面绘画》是他在中国的首次个展。他1959年生于阿姆斯特丹,现在依然在这里生活工作,他采用二十世纪早期荷兰传统的干净、极简、非写实的设计,创作出与建筑的空间结构呼应,并使用波普的印象派颜色的二十一世纪的作品。他设计的有力的结构、颜色,有时甚至是视觉上颜色并置的效果,都源自他与作品空间建筑结构以及地点的关系。他以深思熟虑的分析、纯粹的直觉以及大胆的执行造山又移山,在空间中创作出大体量的图形并改变了人们对空间的固有认知方式。扬的作品是对现有建筑及流动其间的生命的干预。墙面绘画既有足够的力量可以支撑整个空间,同时二者又巧妙地以新的方式彼此定义,让空间与绘画都更有生气。范·德·普勒格的绘画带领观众一起跟随空间中墙面与窗户的节奏。我们对于“空间”的私人、私密体验永远被改变了。
展览《墙面绘画》在望远镜的两个空间中分别展出了两个墙面绘画作品和三幅版画作品。虽然以大型的墙面绘画著称,范·德·普勒格也创作版画以及小尺幅布面作品。然而,绘画和纸上作品并不是他为大型墙面绘画所做的研究,而是与墙面绘画拥有同样的主题,只是有一点,它们并不像墙面绘画那样无止境地延续、流动。它们都是独一无二的。