Simon Schrikker  (1973)

Over de kunstenaar
The Beast in the Paint (Summary)

The work of Simon Schrikker is a battle between form and content, between painted matter and painted image. His subjects have an apparent simplicity: he paints stray dogs, and recently also sharks and squids. But these images are not illustrations from a book on animal life. For one thing, the images seem to struggle to emerge from the paint. In this sense, these paintings clearly identify themselves as paintings. The medium is part of the message. And since the animals that Simon paints are associated with several degrees of danger and fear, there is also a certain aggression in his images. This aggression returns in the painterly way the surface is treated. As a result of this dialectic, Simon’s work flirts with expressive abstraction: the images arise from matter but immediately seem to disappear into it again, leaving the audience to unravel what it is they are looking at. This dialectic is the engine that propels Simon’s work: what moves on the canvas is, ultimately, a painterly gesture.

Christophe Van Eecke

Opleiding
Dutch Art Institute (MFA), Enschede (1999-2001)
Academie Minerva, Groningen (1995-1999)

Prijzen
Publieksprijs Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (2005)

Subsidies
2010 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB
2006 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB
2002 Startsstipendium Fonds BKVB

Collecties
Drents Museum Assen
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Zeeuws Museum Middelburg
Jeroen Princen Rotterdam
Caldic Collectie Rotterdam
CBK Dordrecht & Rotterdam

De volgende instellingen bieden werk aan en organiseren exposities:
Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Den Bosch

De volgende musea/instellingen hebben werk in hun collectie:
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag/Scheveningen
Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg

De volgende kunstuitlenen hebben werk in hun collectie:
Centrum Beeldende Kunst (CBK), Rotterdam

De volgende instellingen hebben werk in stock:
Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Den Bosch
Livingstone gallery, Den Haag

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