Gijs van Noort - Vade age, nate - Sold

Gijs van Noort studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem and has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1984. Until about 2009, organic shapes, which often evoked associations with parts of the human body, played an important role. These objects were initially located in a landscape environment: this has increasingly made way for an architectural one. In the most recent work, the architectural space has become the subject and evolves into an object. Van Noort uses painting as a means to construct spaces: the shapes grow in the paint during a long process of applying and removing. The light creates menace and melancholy: heavy cast shadows anchor the architectural forms in their environment and place the paintings in a romantic tradition. So spaces, and light and paint. But without this being visibly present, it is also about people. It seems to have just stepped out of the picture, leaving behind its constructions in desolate, surrealistically lit environments.