Tempo e spazio. Il ponte tra di noi
Galleria Massimo Minini•Nov 22, 2025 — Jan 17, 2026
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In 1976, at the age of twenty-one, Emo Verkerk made his first artwork. He took an existing wooden kitchen chair and fitted it with an elongated seat of approximately one meter. The idea behind it was that a person who sits down on it, who is literally sitting on the edge of his seat, would become more active in space. It’s a remarkable start for someone who has made his name with portraits of historical figures, figures who could therefore never sit down on the chair.
The person portrayed might be a writer or a philosopher, a cartoonist or a fellow painter, an existentialist or a religious man, a rationalist or an idealist, a musician or a composer, an actor or a playwright, even a magician or a shaman. They all have one thing in common: once they are painted by Verkerk, they become an integral part of his universe, which turns out to be a world of its own. Like the chair, that symbolizes an entire oeuvre, you couldn’t make this up.…
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Tempo e spazio. Il ponte tra di noi
Galleria Massimo Minini•Nov 22, 2025 — Jan 17, 2026
Press Release
In 1976, at the age of twenty-one, Emo Verkerk made his first artwork. He took an existing wooden kitchen chair and fitted it with an elongated seat of approximately one meter. The idea behind it was that a person who sits down on it, who is literally sitting on the edge of his seat, would become more active in space. It’s a remarkable start for someone who has made his name with portraits of historical figures, figures who could therefore never sit down on the chair.
The person portrayed might be a writer or a philosopher, a cartoonist or a fellow painter, an existentialist or a religious man, a rationalist or an idealist, a musician or a composer, an actor or a playwright, even a magician or a shaman. They all have one thing in common: once they are painted by Verkerk, they become an integral part of his universe, which turns out to be a world of its own. Like the chair, that symbolizes an entire oeuvre, you couldn’t make this up.…
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