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LET GOOOOO #4 │ Construction of Illusion │Pim Kersten

content text | invitation | p. 4

work 1 | opening* | p. 5 - p. 10

work 2 | exhibition | p. 11

colophon | p. 18

see also

Pim Kersten ruimteCAESUUR: www.caesuur.nl

LOST PAINTERS

* during the opening, Kersten asked the public to complete his sculpture

which he installed in the back space

‘starting’ sculpture, back space by Pim Kersten

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Construction of Illusion a solo exhibition by Pim Kersten

08/09/2014 - 09/21/2014 Curation: Just Quist – LET GOOOOO (of exhibition)

Opening Saturday, August 9, 16:00 Text: Domenico de Chirico Heteronomical tension is the precept of this exhibition. The atmosphere is suffused and allusive. Pim Kersten reduces his palette to minimal, soft colouring and subdued grays. From there, the only variations we encounter are black and white. While all artworks are characterised by lightness and insubstantiality, the aluminium pieces, as they are installed in the space, interact with light that is reflected in such way that it’s rapidly flowing in and out. The paintings are enormously sensitive to their environments; their surfaces are changeable, fickle - appearances which challenge the viewer’s per-ception and, ultimately, their conceptualization of the work. The artistic study of Pim Kersten draws out the im-

mediacy of perception, but it also defines absorption of delicate atmospheres in space. Filtering all visual information absorbed in the act of sensing, he locates his practice within the traditions of philoso-phical inquiry, beginning at the surface. Intensely interested in a possible contemporary ab-stract type of painting, he examines formal proper-ties of painting and their hybrid quality. As the artist states: “being passionate about the anti-black box phenomenon in a socially networked environment (Latour), I often combine unfamiliar surfaces, found paints and other found materials, often industrial, that evoke speculation as to how they might have operated in the past, what possible relationships they have had and what type of function they continue to carry. This way I investigate authenticity and a social status both within and outside the artistic object. ” The resulting works are executed with great tactility and defined by the muddiness of their materials, which simultaneously gives a unique and evocative contemporaryidentity. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAmWkWZiZ50

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THE CHEERFUL SHAREHOLDERS & FRIENDS OF CAESUUR

is supported by

de Kattendijke/Drucker

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colophon teamCAESUUR 2014 - 2015 Willy van Houtum | Giel Louws Michiel Paalvast | Harmen Eijzenga Hans Overvliet curator LET GOOOOO . . . . .

Just Quist exhibitions space[s]

ruimteCAESUUR | Middelburg Justin Time Facebook

catalogue

work: ©Pim Kersten txt: ©Domenico de Chirico

photos: ©Pim Kersten, Mechteld Jansen & Hans Overvliet

logo: ©Niek Hendrix lay-out: Hans Overvliet

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