Klaas Kloosterboer

Pulp Machineries

Gallery Suðsuðvestur

16 May

Gallery Suðsuðvestur, in collaboration with Galerie van Gelder (Amsterdam), has organised a private exhibition, Pulp Machineries, of works by Dutch artist Klaas Kloosterboer. Klaas is well known in Holland for paintings that often take on a three-dimensional form. He makes use of traditional materials, such as paint and canvas, but objectifies them by constructing and reconstructing painting-like sculptures. In his view, making art is always a question of occupying space.

Techniques such as canon spraying and splashing, as well as cutting and stitching, throwing and slamming, are common in his work in order to create his painter's sculptures of paint and canvas, which are sometimes combined with video film. In this energetic process, the work transforms into objects and three-dimensional paintings that simulate clothing defined in pictorial notions of enveloping and covering.

Klaas Kloosterboer had an extensive solo exhibition in the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany in 2003. He participated in group shows such as Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum Utrecht and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (Belgium) and The Projection Project, Kunsthalle Budapest (Hungary). In 2009 he will participate in an impromptu group show with Wim T Schippers, Andreas Slominski and the Danish collective Superflex in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Holland).

Klass's work is in private collections in Norway, Iceland, The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium and in public collections in museums such as Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and others.

During the Reykjavik Arts Festival 2009 a free leaflet sculpture created by Klaas Kloosterboer will be distributed by Suðsuðvestur. For an advance copy, apply to sudsudvestur@sudsudvestur.is including your postal address.