Rezi van Lankveld
Flitsen
6 September — 31 October, 2020
Harmoniestraat 29, Antwerp
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Dominic van den Boogerd
The exhibition is organised with the support of Stad Antwerpen.
““The image (we cannot call it a depiction) sometimes appears folded or pleated, sometimes cracked or torn. Fault lines and turning points mark the constitutive moments in the painting process. The component elements grate and grind, twist and turn, manoeuvring themselves into precarious positions in order to prop up the whole and to save it from collapse. Everything contributes to a delicate balance, a temporary entente that has just been established and whose future is uncertain.””
Rezi van Lankveld, La Vie de Rêve, 2019, Oil on canvas, 55 x 44 cm (21 5/8 x 17 3/8 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Rezi van Lankveld, Golden, 2020, Oil on canvas, 55 x 44 cm (21 5/8 x 17 3/8 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Installation view, Flitsen, 2020, Office Baroque, Antwerp, photo: Pieter Huybrechts
Installation view, Flitsen, 2020, Office Baroque, Antwerp, photo: Pieter Huybrechts
Installation view, Flitsen, 2020, Office Baroque, Antwerp, photo: Pieter Huybrechts
Rezi van Lankveld, Creature, 2019, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Rezi van Lankveld, Pink Cloud, 2020, Oil on canvas, 55 x 48 cm (21 5/8 x 18 7/8 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Installation view, Flitsen, 2020, Office Baroque, Antwerp, photo: Pieter Huybrechts
Rezi van Lankveld, Ghost, 2020, Oil on canvas, 56 x 48 cm (22 1/8 x 18 7/8 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Rezi van Lankveld, Promenade, 2019, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm (23 5/8 x 19 3/4 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Rezi van Lankveld, Place , 2020, Oil on canvas, 58 x 42 cm (22 7/8 x 16 1/2 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Rezi van Lankveld, Feed, 2020, Oil on canvas, 58 x 42 cm (22 7/8 x 16 1/2 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Installation view, Flitsen, 2020, Office Baroque, Antwerp, photo: Pieter Huybrechts
Rezi van Lankveld, In Alles, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm (19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in), photo: Gert Jan van Rooij
Office Baroque is pleased to announce its first individual exhibition of Dutch painter Rezi van Lankveld. The exhibition will run from September 6 thru October 31st at our space on Harmoniestraat 29, Antwerp. The exhibition will mark the first project in Antwerp since our relocation in 2020. The exhibition space on Harmoniestraat is the original gallery space where Office Baroque launched its activities in 2007.
Rezi van Lankveld is known for her small and medium sized paintings. Her work has a presence and immediacy that can be described, for lack of better words, as an affectionate infinity, a borderless elsewhere. The complex and contradictory interplay of immaterial paint, formal play, figurative hints and fauvist palette are created through van Lankveld’s process of pouring paint loosely from a can onto the canvas, then pushing and pulling the paint, removing and adding via sanding or brushwork until complex, layered compositions emerge and take permanent shape.
For the exhibition Flitsen, van Lankveld has created a series of 9 new canvasses.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Dominic van den Boogerd and is available for order here.
Van Lankveld has recently exhibited at Annet Gelink, Amsterdam; The Approach, London; Petzel Gallery, New York; Sara Zanin, Rome
Rezi van Lankveld was born in 1973 and lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work was shown at Reset Home, Borgloon; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; Museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Gallery 400, University of Chicago; the ‘Prague Biennale 1’, Prague. Van Lankveld won the prestigious prize the Royal Award for Modern Painting.
Her work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands; The Rabobank Art Collection, The Netherlands; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago & The Aedes Real Estate Collection, The Netherlands among others.
About Rezi van Lankveld
Artist page
Van Lankveld is known for her small and medium sized canvasses. Their complex and contradictory interplay of immaterial paint, figurative hints and fauvist palette are created through a process of pouring paint loosely from a can onto the canvas, then pushing and pulling the paint until compositions emerge.
Books
The publication Flitsen is published on the occasion of the first individual exhibition by Rezi van Lankveld at Office Baroque in Antwerp. The publication contains an essay by Dominic van den Boogerd in Dutch and English.