Caspar Dreaming

Great Silkscreen. Handsigned titled, numbered and dated. Comes from the collection of the municipality of The Hague, The Netherlands. Gijs van Noort (1958, The Hague) 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 forms, which often evoke associations with parts of the human body, played an important role. These objects were initially located in a landscape environment, which has increasingly given way to an architectural one. In the most recent work, the architectural space has become the subject and is evolving into an object. Van Noort uses painting as a means of constructing spaces: the forms grow in the paint during a long process of applying and removing them. Menace and melancholy are created by the light: heavy cast shadows anchor the architectural forms in their surroundings and place the paintings in a romantic tradition. Spaces, therefore, and light and paint. But without being visibly present, it is also about the human being. He seems to have just stepped out of the picture, leaving his constructions behind in desolate, surrealistically lit environments.