Frans Horbach
Untitled #2
c.1980

About the Item

This artwork "Untitled #2" is a colors monotype on Arches paper by Dutch artist Frans Horbach. It is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 19.5 x 15.5 inches, sheet size is 30 x 22.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright, has never been framed. About the artist: Born in Holland, Dutch artist Frans Horbach first visited New York when he was 17 years old, traveling on a cargo ship from Rotterdam, just as his fellow country man Willem de Kooning had done years before. Two years later he left Holland and emigrated to California. During the years that he lived and worked as a professional artist in America, one of the main sources of artistic influence came from artists belonging to what is now known as the New York school of American lyrical abstract expressionist art - Rothko, Pollock, De Kooning... He was attracted by their ideas, style of work, and more importantly, by their vital energy and uninhibited self-confidence. Horbach's work also was influenced, more subtely perhaps, by his contact with indigeneous Indian people during his journeys in the American South-West and Mexico. These encounters were a rich source of inspiration - they became integral to a philosophical framework which involved the appreciation of physical space in a poetic and artistic sense. In later years, as the result of his long-time interest in oriental art and philosophy, some of his work show a distinct affinity with the aesthetic sensibilities of traditional Japanse art. Though his more recent paintings, when compared with his earlier work, may at first appear simple geometric constructions, there is a delicate complexity involved in their making, a subtle balance of tension, contrast and dimensional harmony. Subtle shifts in colour and perspective occur depending on how you look and interpret - they may also serve to show the correspondence with the inherent complexity of the act of seeing. For the juxtaposition of layered surfaces and structures, combined with an informal application of paint, reflect the instability and movement of our perceptual processes involved. They act as tools to assist us in our negotiation and recognition of perceiving time and space, and the way of looking at art. Selected Exhibitions: Casa Luna Artspace,'Intersections', Amsterdam NL Kunst aan Zee,'Ruimte en Verbeelding', Muiderberg NL Nassau Ateliers,'Staatsgeheimen', Amsterdam NL Orange-Water-3,'Reflection of Origin' NIA, Athene, Greece Orange-Water Contemporary, 'Fatamorgana', Santorini Arts Factory, Santorini, Greece Casa Luna Artspace, 'Vision in Sight 5', Amsterdam NL Galerie Clement, Inside-Outside, Amsterdam NL Casa Luna Artspace, 'Vision in Sight 4', Amsterdam NL Galerie De Ploegh, 'Op Reis', Soest NL Galerie Clement, Ruimte & Verbeelding, Amsterdam NL Arti et Amicitiae, De Salon, Amsterdam NL De Kring, Contemplatie (en) Ruimte, Amsterdam NL Edifor galerie, Un géométrie d'espace, Paris, France Triade Foundation, Timisoara, Romania Art Museum Timisoara, Mnemosyning, Timisoara, Romania Edifor galerie, L'art d'être européen, Paris, France Arttra galerie, Amsterdam NL Arti et Amicitiae, De Salon, Amsterdam NL SBK Amsterdam KNSM, Van Beeld tot Beeld, Amsterdam NL Casa Luna Winterexpositie, Amsterdam NL SBK Amsterdam KNSM, Nader Bekeken, Amsterdam NL Casa Luna, Vision in Sight 3, Amsterdam NL Gutenberg Museum - Pavilion, Mainz, Germany Fetterly House for the Arts, Faultlines, Vallejo, California USA Singer Museum/Printshop, Grafiek Nu, Laren NL Casa Luna, Vision in Sight 2, Amsterdam NL Judith Litvich Fine Arts, San Francisco USA Casa Luna, Vision in Sight, Amsterdam NL Singer Museum/Printshop, Grafiek Nu, Laren NL Arti et Amicitiae, Copy Culture, Amsterdam NL Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Ahrend-Meinema, Amsterdam NL Erickson & Elin Fine Art, San Francisco, USA Hewlett-Packard Kunstruimte, Amstelveen NL Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA Erickson & Elin Fine Art, San Francisco, USA Galerie Hof Renoir, Driest, Belgium Europe Art, Vondelkerk, Amsterdam NL Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Galerie Binnenland, Amsterdam NL Galerie Biervliet, Amsterdam NL Galerie BMW Hochhause, Begegnung mit der Niederlanden, München, Germany Erickson & Elin Fine Art, San Francisco, USA Lyudmila Zhivkova Art Foundation, CODA: Contemporary Dutch prints, Sofia, Bulgaria SFB kunstruimte, Sociaal Fonds Bouwnijverheid, Amsterdam NL Owen-Patrick gallery, Philadelphia, USA Boxmeer Kunst, Boxmeer NL Notre Dame Des Arts, Ubbergen NL Galerie Anna Paulowna, Soest NL Erickson & Elin Fine Art, San Francisco, USA Art Indices, Palo Alto, California, USA Joy Tash Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Marshall Meyers Gallery, San Francisco, USA Nippon Club Gallery, Going Dutch, New York, USA Nieuw Perspectief, Amsterdam NL Metz & Co, Amsterdam NL Judith Selkowitz Fine Arts, New York, USA Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Marshall Meyers Gallery, San Francisco, USA Zellerbach Center Gallery, San Francisco, USA Judith Selkowitz Fine Arts, New York, USA Holland-America Bicentennial Exhibition, San Francisco, USA Rorick Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Joy Tash Gallery, Scotsdale, Arizona, USA Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Kaiser Center Gallery, Oakland, California, USA

Creator:

Frans Horbach (1947, Dutch)

Creation Year:

c.1980

Dimensions:

Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)Depth: 0.01 in (0.26 mm)

Medium:

Monotype

Movement & Style:

Abstract

Period:

Late 20th Century