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In previous exhibitions (Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Kunsthal KAdE, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Dordrechts Museum, Pictura Dordrecht), only collaborative works were presented. SUITE: INTERLUDE expands this approach with works inspired by Piero di Cosimo’s 1490 painting Venus, Mars, and Cupid. Alongside joint creations, the exhibition also includes individual drawings, each taking Di Cosimo’s composition as a point of departure.
The project unfolds as an Oulipian, intuitive, and inexhaustible exploration—collective and individual—of the painting’s tensions: war and love, man and woman, peace and struggle, body and landscape. Through language, constraints, and invention, SUITE probes these contradictions to uncover fresh meanings.
SUITE: INTERLUDE thus marks a pause in an ongoing dialogue between two artists united by a passion for drawing, using collaboration as a method of study and a way to reimagine both a Renaissance painting and the wider field of art.
The Fourteenth-Century Saints were joined by more and more other saints, until there were far too many. As is her custom, Christina de Vos then significantly reduced the collection, resulting in a complete series that was distilled to its essence. The dozens of books that served as her inspiration were cut up into material for collages.
