summer heat is over ..
Working …
Sa caleta afternoon
Remembrance of things lost
“As we increasingly outsource our memories to devices we may be forgetting the pleasures of imperfect recall”.
The dive
Sa caleta
Pyke Koch
Pyke Koch ,
A very talented Dutch artist who painted in a magic realist manner, for us a talented family friend ,and very dear to my grandparents.
Waking up to see this photo I realise that I adore this photo of him, the face of a man with charisma, creativity and stylishness and originality.
Pyke Koch and the painter Carel Willink are considered to be the foremost representatives in the Netherlands of Magic Realism, a style of painting in which the scenes depicted seem realistic yet uncanny or unlikely.
I just went to see an exhibition of Willink not too sure if I am so mesmerised by the magic realism, it has something dark in a way . I do, yes I am jealous of their way of painting because they ‘really’ can paint realism, I always joke about it but it is not far from the truth that I can not draw a proper horse for example. It doesn’t make me ‘less’ of an artist but a true wish to learn it at one point .
Carel Willink (1900-1983) was one of the foremost Dutch painters of this magic realism and ‘imaginary realism’. He combined a refined, masterful technique, rendering reality in a detailed way, with a disconcerting, sometimes even threatening atmosphere in his work.
Back to Koch as he interests me the most, mainly because of our strong connection through family friendships ,during the late 1920s and 1930s he had many exhibitions, both solo and in collaboration with others. In 1931 one of the foremost museums in the Netherlands, the Museum Boymans van Beuningen bought one of his paintings called De Schiettent or Shooting Gallery. This meant he was considered one of the Great Painters of the Netherlands.
After the Second World War, Koch was condemned for his fascist sympathies and was banned from exhibiting his work for one year. But his friends and colleagues remained faithful to him. In 1950 he and a number of colleagues represented the Netherlands at the 25th Venice Biennale.
Still my super wish to expose at the Venice Biennale but all will come when time decides !
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