De Appel Amsterdam. Actual artist: Arnoud Holleman - “Immovably Centred” - Exhibition dates are June 02 - June 22, 2008. Get more information about Arnoud Holleman - Museum or Gallery informations: Amsterdam, De Appel by Wikipedia.org / Portal:Arts. Buy arts from Arnoud Holleman or find objects, articles or web-projects? Art online: Arnoud Holleman by adaweb.com | Biography - Textportrait from Arnoud Holleman by Ralph Ueltzhoeffer & Laura May. Articles and texts actual: When people say that they cannot understand a contemporary work of art, there are two possible explanations. Either the work is meaningless in itself, or viewers cannot relate to the message immanent in the work due to their lack of understanding of the means that is employed.
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My interest in depicting such ambiguous spaces, so often hidden or overlooked, is that they represent places where wider interests and concerns including popular and folk traditions, the pagan and the orthodox, and what we understand as urban and as rural, can be seen to overlap.
The works adhere to the long British tradition of pastoral landscape painting, somehow managing to conjure two contradictory moments of the English countryside—a mythical, verdant, Gothic, romantic past, and one of mutant overgrowth and post-industrial abandon.
The images are predominantly abstract, and yet within the endless possible readings of the forms that they contain, they are somehow psychologically charged. Like Hermann Rorschach’s ink blots, they are uncanny—familiar, and yet somehow sinister.