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Michaël de Kok

The paintings of Michaël de Kok (b. 1958, NL) originate in an imaginary world, a landscape that cannot be traced back to a recognisable topographical reality
but was created in his imagination. Memories or impressions from his daily walks are carefully filtered in his memory and stripped of any narrativity. They become composite compositions that depict not only the universal layered landscape, but also the experience of the elements, air, light, land and water within that landscape.

His canvases are composed of several transparent layers of oil paint, each adding different tonalities. From darkness or twilight, each work strives for clarity and brightness where colours sometimes shine and sometimes absorb, a balance between reaching for light or just missing it. And occasionally he complements an image with architectural elements, such as swimming pools, which take on an alienating character through subtle brushstrokes with a smooth brush or a flat brush. The taut colour areas of this series titled ‘Pool’ or ‘Meditteranean pool’, are not photographically copied, but lovingly confuse us.

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