Though I’m seventy I still plant trees
Dürst Britt & Mayhew•Aug 30, 2024 — Nov 10, 2024
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Dürst Britt & Mayhew proudly presents its second solo exhibition in the gallery by renowned Dutch modernist artist Willem Hussem (1900-1974). The exhibition focuses on works from the early 1970s, the last period of Hussem’s artistic life, in which his vocabulary changed from lyrical constructivism to a very personal adaptation of hard-edge painting.
After 1971, with a few exceptions, Hussem only created geometrically abstract paintings. Curved and round lines no longer appear in his work at all. The shapes are completely determined by sleek, straight lines. In his late paintings he usually places one or two colour shapes against a monochrome background. The visual power of the compositions lies in the tension between the areas of colour, between the shapes themselves and between the shapes and the surface.
What sets him apart from other hard-edge masters like Ellsworth Kelly or Dutch artist Bob Bonies is that Hussem’s...More
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Though I’m seventy I still plant trees
Dürst Britt & Mayhew•Aug 30, 2024 — Nov 10, 2024
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Dürst Britt & Mayhew proudly presents its second solo exhibition in the gallery by renowned Dutch modernist artist Willem Hussem (1900-1974). The exhibition focuses on works from the early 1970s, the last period of Hussem’s artistic life, in which his vocabulary changed from lyrical constructivism to a very personal adaptation of hard-edge painting.
After 1971, with a few exceptions, Hussem only created geometrically abstract paintings. Curved and round lines no longer appear in his work at all. The shapes are completely determined by sleek, straight lines. In his late paintings he usually places one or two colour shapes against a monochrome background. The visual power of the compositions lies in the tension between the areas of colour, between the shapes themselves and between the shapes and the surface.
What sets him apart from other hard-edge masters like Ellsworth Kelly or Dutch artist Bob Bonies is that Hussem’s...More
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