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In his work, Sander van Deurzen focuses on the throwaway culture, such as figures from Walt Disney or the Happy Meal gifts from McDonald's. He transfers compositions of these colorful objects to large and smaller canvases in thin landscapes that are populated by strange objects in often sweet colors but can still have a somewhat threatening character. At the same time, he is interested in translating art history to the present day. Gradually, the focus has come to be more on painting itself, which has made his works more abstract. He is mainly concerned with the tension between the non-innovative side and the traditions of painting and the abundance of images in contemporary visual culture. From painting, he has now also started to use other, more spatial disciplines and is focusing on the carrier of his paintings.
Sander van Deurzen won the Royal Prize for Free Painting in 2003 and recently in 2024 he won the Jeanne Oosting Prize.