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Friday, 19 July 2019

Big article in the AD about the summer exhibition Delft blue!

Art around Delftware at Oudewater’s Galerie Sille
The summer exhibition at the Oudewater Gallery Sille has the theme “Delft Blue. Some 200 artists submitted work. Tamara Sille selected 45 to exhibit throughout the summer.

Article: Gijs Kool Photo: FRank de Roo – July 19, 2019 AD Groene Hart

It is now a regular tradition: gallery owner Tamara Sille invents a theme, after which artists from her regular group of artists and also from outside this “stable” get to work.

In past years, the themes were “Pepper” and “Air. This year, Sille discovered the new work of Egmond-based artist Katinka Krijgsman. She painted the images of women eating fish or drinking buttermilk from a jug at the beach. Krijgsman captured it on extravagantly large plates and did so in Delft blue.

”Then I immediately knew what the theme should be,” Sille explains enthusiastically. Sille has nothing to complain about the number of entries for her theme; there are more every year. ”It’s fun to pick out the gems. The artists have to create new work each time, but often manage to work in their own style around the theme.”

Still, Sille pinched him for a moment as the artwork trickled in. ”This is going to be an overkill of only blue paintings,” she thought anxiously. ”But it wasn’t too bad. For example, look at the work of Yvonne Zomerdijk, who made the heron and coots.”

Sille refers to the artist’s painting Unforgettable blue, in which the birds are on Delft blue painted vases, but many other colors were used for the ferns and flowers. Of course, the heron’s wings are also blue: Delft blue.
Flower Throws
The exhibit opened four weeks ago and, according to Sille, visitor response has been enthusiastic. Sille says the work of Saskia Hoeboer – with realistic small busts – and Jenny Boot – photography – are especially popular.

Also popular is the work of Amsterdam surgeon Samuel Dejong, who recreated a scale beetle with Delft blue shields, a golden body and mirrored wings. ”He is developing more and more as an artist.”

The artist from the Green Heart who came through Sille’s selection is Coby Schot from Reeuwijk. She made portraits of women with pompous flower arrangements on their heads.

The enormous diversity of artworks around the same theme, which is precisely what I like so much

Tamara Sille
Also from the Green Heart is photographer Barend Houtsmuller, who until recently lived in Woerden, but has now settled in Amsterdam. His work featuring nude ladies, often veiled by transparent canvases, was created in a special shade of blue for this exhibition.

The Delft blue vases were given a different approach by artist Hans Withoos. He smashed the vase, including beautiful white tulips, and photographed the exact moment the shards literally fly off. ”One of his ancestors was a painter. ”Those paintings Withoos layered behind his own photographs, where by they form the backdrop into which the blue vases fall,” Sille explained.

Parakeets
Artist Withoos, by the way, had finished his work before the Delft Blue theme was even conceived. So he could, by chance, hang his work among the other works because his work includes many Delft blue vases.

One of the photos shows a handful of parakeets pooping on the vases. These blue vases are from a museum, and while photographing the birds, Withoos created other vases of the same dimensions. ”Later he glued those layers back together in the photograph,” Sille explained. Withoos’ works are having success in Oudewater. After only three weeks, Sille was able to wrap three large photos of Withoos in thick protective film to send to customers.

Speaking of protective film, photographer Jenny Boot photographed her model three ways in packaging materials with, of course, Delft blue elements.

She did this with both soft, almost translucent packing material, and hundreds of individual Styrofoam balls. The model has red-painted lips and a string around her face. The color? Delft blue.

The most beautiful work of art in her large gallery in Oudewater Tamara Sille cannot and will not point out. ,,The enormous diversity of artworks around the same theme, that is precisely what I like so much.”

Artist Anouk van Tetering also takes photographs. She sprinkled white tulips and a dandelion bulb with blue pigment. She studied at the Rietveld Academy and has exhibited at Art Miami, London, Paris, Miami and New York since 2018. ”And so nowadays also in Oudewater,” Sille says with appropriate pride.

The sales exhibition featuring works by 45 different contemporary artists will be on display throughout the summer at Galerie Sille in Oudewater.


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