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Koen van den Broek
"Paling (Interval I)", oil on canvas, Korea, Jun Itami, conceptual, photography

2012

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Koen van den Broek (*1973 in Bree, Belgium) graduated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Before, he had studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Breda and the HISK in Antwerp. He is looking back to a successful, international career, being active since more than 20 years. His major solo-exhibitions were "This an Example of That", with works done by Koen van den Broek together with John Baldessari, in the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2008); "Curbs and Cracks" in the SMAK (City Museum of Contemporary Art), Ghent (2010); and "Shadows" in the Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (2012). His paintings have been collected by almost every major Belgian collection (institutional as well as private), as well as by the Philara Collection, Dusseldorf; the Stoffel Foundation, Cologne; Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; the Collection G2, Leipzig; the LACMA, Los Angeles; the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; the Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The starting point for Koen van den Broek‘s paintings are often photographs of land- or cityscapes that are more or less directly transferred into painterly compositions. With borders, street corners, or extreme close ups of details of a city or a landscape van den Broek chooses consciously rather boring places as subjects for his paintings. By almost totally omitting narrative elements, van den Broek is directing the viewer‘s gaze to the painterly aspects of his works – the choice of colors, the brush stroke, the pictorial space versus the flatness of the canvas, and the composition that refers to a specific moment in life, a composition that was depending on the photographic perspective. In addition to that, the artist is playing with the relation of figuration and abstraction. "Paling (Interval)" shows us the building "Wind" that the famous Japanese architect Jun Itami built in 2004 as a part of a group of three buildings that formed the Pinx Biotopia Museum dedicated to wind, water, and stone on Jeju Island in Korea. The painting's title refers to the wooden paling fence that makes up the museum's walls. Each wooden lath has been installed at a defined distance ("Interval") to the other, to make the wind go through the building and thus to let us experience the wind in the building without further visual distractions. While, at first sight, it seems as if van den Broek strove to mainly represent the building, he is – rather than showing us a readable image of the inner space of the museum – showing us mainly the black wooden laths and the shadows that are cast by the sun on the floor of the building, the sun that is shining through the wooden laths and thereby deviding the floor in stripes. It is a very typical painting for Koen van den Broek, playing with the discourse of figuration / photography and abstraction / painting (by depicting in a pretty true way what is experienced inside the building, but also by creating a kind of abstract structure that organizes the picture plane). "Paling (Interval)" is also typical for playing with the pictorial depth and the flatness of the canvas. Because what we see can either be read as an abstract composition of stripes, a pattern. Or it can be read as the view in perspective of the building. What is special for this painting, however, is the fact that van den Broek paints mainly the shadow. He is thus creating a triple representation of reality: 1. the shadow represents the rails of the bridge. 2. the photograph represents the shadow on the bridge. 3. the painting represents the photograph. "Paling (Interval)" is thus functioning like a Russian Matroshka, one little puppet placed in the other.
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