“I have to change to stay the same” (Willem de Kooning)
Since starting as a professional artist, over the years, my work has changed, as I were always to find out more about painting and how to express my thoughts and findings.
Thus, after a rather abstract start in 1982, in the period of the ‘frog figures,’ I developed an interest in the shape of the painting (1985-1989). Which ushered me into abstract works, focusing at (the painting’s)shape and its meaning (1989-1995).
Next adventure was to combine meaningful shape and figurative painting. (1996-2006)
and after that: expanding figurative meaning by adding mixed media to the painting, (human hair, diamonds, copper wire, wood, etc).(2006-2012). Meanwhile, I gradually reduced my painting’s shape to circular or straight cornered.
From here the paintings got more personal content, starting with my connection to S.E.-Asia in the Vase-series: (mostly Asian) girls in delft-blue-vases. More narrative elements, depicting more people together than before, in a mix of personal- and made-up situations, characterize the next series of works.
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- First exhibition, solo show! Newspaper review 1984.
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- ‘Space invaders’ 1983, oil on canvas, 180 x 120 cm.
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- Jan Wisse, winter 1984-1985 @ studio.
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- ‘Spring Dance’, 1985, oil on canvas, 240 x 360cm.
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- Jan Wisse, 1985 @ expo opening, with ‘Spring Dance’.
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- ‘Inner Room K’, 1989, oil on canvas, 107 x 176 cm.–(Private Collection,The Hague, NL)
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- ‘Magritte Corner’, 1995, oil on panel, 77 x 54 cm. –(Collection Rabobank Nederland)
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- ‘Green’, 1996, oil on panel, installation dimensions 68 x 25 cm.
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- Navel-paintings (one work: 48 pcs) (detail), 2001,oil on panel, ø 13 cm each. –(individual pieces and smaller group-series in Private Collections)
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- ‘Sqeezed Face’, 2006, oil on panel, ø 23 cm x 4 cm aluminum. –(Collection Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, NL)
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- ‘Q1’, 2008, and ‘Q2’, 2008-2011, oil, diamonds and human hair on panel, each 79 x 82 cm.–(Q2 : Corporate Collection, Sydney, Australia.)
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- Jan Wisse, 2010, @ studio. (foto: Marco Zwinkels)
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- ‘Somewhere’, 2008-2012, oil on panel, 41 x 82 cm. –(Collection Kunstcentrum Delft.*)
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- Vase-series, 2009-2016, ‘Vase V1 (P)(L)’, 2009, oil on canvas (marouflé), 128 x 88 cm.–(Private Collection, Rotterdam, NL)
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- Vase-series, 2009-2016, ‘Vase S7’, 2013 en ‘Vase S3’, 2015-16, oil on canvas (marouflé), 122 x 84 cm each.–(‘Vase S7’: Private Collection, Perth, Australia. ‘Vase S3’: Private Collection, The Hague, NL.)
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- Vase-series, 2009-2016, ‘Vase S2 (Bali)’, 2016, oil on canvas (marouflé), 122 x 84 cm.