Lucassen - Reinier Lucassen
KORTE INHOUD
Firstly I remember the way Lucassen used to look at things, his eyes so indescribably still and attentive. The eyes of a painter looking at things in order to make them still. Painters look with intense patience so that they will not disregard even the smallest of things. They look that way at a painting for a long time while it is being made – until the work is finished. It is finished when the painter no longer knows how to continue.
But still he goes on looking and peering to see what the plane of colours and figures looks like and to make sure nothing has gone unnoticed. You never know what else might come along. (Rudi Fuchs)
The common thread in his work, as he formulates it himself, is “the search for an artistic form that is a synthesis of various perspectives. Art that, in doing so, gives shape to a variety of feelings.”
In pursuit of this, Lucassen brings contrasting concepts together in a way that removes their contradictory elements and allows them, instead, to complete one another. He wants to unite ...
But still he goes on looking and peering to see what the plane of colours and figures looks like and to make sure nothing has gone unnoticed. You never know what else might come along. (Rudi Fuchs)
The common thread in his work, as he formulates it himself, is “the search for an artistic form that is a synthesis of various perspectives. Art that, in doing so, gives shape to a variety of feelings.”
In pursuit of this, Lucassen brings contrasting concepts together in a way that removes their contradictory elements and allows them, instead, to complete one another. He wants to unite ...
