All Drawings

From March 6th till April 9th 2005 Renie Spoelstra, Jolijn van Rees en Anouk Griffioen will show their huge drawings in RONMANDOS gallery. Central to the exhibition is the ambiguous beauty of nature and man. The glamour, but also the fugacity. The exuberance, and the drawback. Life, and death. Because one can’t exist without the other.

Renie Spoelstra (1974) studied at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague and at Minerva in Groningen. She uses charcoal and crayon to represent what at first sight seems to be friendly recreational grounds. She uses home-made films as a starting point. Her realistic style, the suggested depth and the size make her works astonishing. A subtle tension goes out from the drawings because of the desertion and somewhat eery shades.

Jolijn van Rees(1978) developed during her study at the Willem de Kooning Academy a preference for drawing. At that time, the subjects she chose to work with were very personal. That way she could develop her own style. Nowadays her work is more socially committed. Very different from Renie and Anouk, Jolijn’s drawings are lineair, almost fragile. Her work always contains a certain idea, a concept, often about the transience of looks and life and the ability to ‘make’ or ‘remake’ the human body. This body, and what we do with it, is the basis for her newest work.

Anouk Griffioen (1979) also prefers to draw at big pieces of paper or canvas and she draws with expression. In thick black lines and smudges and leaving white spaces, she exposes a woman, an emotion: fear, frustration, pain, loneliness, but overall emptiness, passiveness, maybe shame. But no cry for help or comfort. These ‘glamorous’ women seem to fade into the background, left alone in their own world.