Harrie Gerritz - The Zonnehof

Harrie Gerritz The Zonnehof Paperback with flap covers 92 pages 14 x 22 2004
Edition: 100 copies Hors commerce. These copies are numbered: HC 1 – 100; This is number HC 90 Japanese binding. Full colour printing. Thirteenth part in the Zonnehof series
Visual artist Harrie Gerritz (1940, Arnhem) has been devoting himself to depicting the landscape in all its manifestations for over 40 years. His stylized visual language is instantly recognizable. `The preference for certain shapes, that is in you. There is a square in me, my favorite shape. But there is another side, the nature side of me. I always bring cosmic signs, patches of land and the winding shape of the rivers in a different connection to each other, they tell a different story every time. But of course the work has become increasingly distant from home. Is a tower still a tower or is it an elongated rectangle with a triangle on top?', says Gerritz. He continues: `Most of my paintings are uncertain. They have a hesitation in them. Uncertain is a painting that does not really speak out for anything. Sometimes the subject is clear: that green is still a strip of earth, that blue a sky, unmistakably a landscape. But I like a painting without a main motif. Graphics is the light side of my work, the songs or the marches. With paintings I go deeper and that is purely egoistic satisfaction of myself. I make my paintings, nobody needs anything with them, I only have to do something with them myself. I am endlessly curious about images. What do I investigate then? Why you do something. What is the essence of the landscape and what is the essence of yourself? The essence of yourself is that you belong to the landscape: to dust you shall return.