In *The World Goes On*, the work of artists Nico Parlevliet and Ton Kraayeveld came together for the first time.
The exhibition can be understood as a “match” between the two artists: a contest between the two-dimensional works of one artist and the often sound-producing, three-dimensional objects of the other. Yet there is no winner; rather, it is a “match” in the sense of a connection, a click between them — and *The World Goes On*!
About the work of Ton Kraayeveld
“Everything is fluid and in motion in Kraayeveld’s work — not only the subjects of his paintings, but also his way of painting. Nothing is fixed. Nothing has to be exactly this way. As in polyphonic music or modern poetry, several points of view can coexist within a single work. Ultimately, it is the artist’s eye that determines how many of these perspectives are allowed to emerge in one painting. And then it is right. Then a painting works, is in balance, and yet also just slightly out of balance. This ‘slightly out of balance’ is the dissonance that makes everything tilt and sets it in motion in Kraayeveld’s work.”
Lucette ter Borg, “The Extreme Edge of Mobility: The Multiform Paintings of Ton Kraayeveld,” published in *UMZUG*, Jap Sam Books, 2014.
About the work of Nico Parlevliet
Everything characteristic of Parlevliet’s work comes together here: image and sound, memory and imagination, simplicity and enigma, change, chance, and the play of movement. A sound work by Parlevliet can begin from either side: sound becomes image, or image becomes sound. The result is always a form in between, where the two come together. When sound is the starting point, he searches for a form that serves that sound. The form gives image to the sound.
When the image is the point of departure, the sound must conform to the instructions of the image. The surface of the artwork that serves as a reference is, as it were, scraped away, and beneath it appears the imaginary mechanism that caused the movement — a movement that, with the solidification of the paint, has become stuck within the image.