The Middelburg foundation for visual arts (SBKM) is organising a lecture by Joost Bakker in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Zusterstraat 7 in Middelburg on Sunday 7 March at 16.00.
Joost Bakker’s lecture, entitled De vrouwelijke Mondriaan en de Zeeuwse connectie [The Female Mondriaan and the Zeeland Connection], will deal with the painter Marlow Moss (1889-1958). Mr Bakker is an art gallery owner in Middelburg and a specialist on twentieth-century Zeeland painters. The city council’s art collection, which is administered by the Middelburg foundation for visual arts (SBKM), includes a rare work by Moss, Compositie met dubbele lijn en blauw vlak [Composition with double lines and blue surface](1934). This work has been restored and was exhibited in the Collectie 01 exhibition at De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal in 2008.
Mr Bakker will explain how the Middelburg city council came to own this special work in the 1970s. He will also deal with the development of Moss as an artist. She was part of a Parisian group of artists known as Abstraction-Création, which she and Piet Mondriaan helped found in 1932. These two artists admired and influenced each other’s work. Moss was the first to apply the double line in her geometrically abstract paintings, a revolution that was followed by Mondriaan and others. Mr Bakker will also consider Moss’ relationship with Netty Nijhoff and her stay in Biggekerke.
Joost Bakker’s lecture is the second in a series that will take place this year. The next lecture organised by the Middelburg foundation for visual arts (SBKM) will be given by Bart de Baere, director of the M HKA in Antwerp. The lecture will take place on 28 March in De Vleeshal.
The lectures are in Dutch. Entrance is free and reservations are not necessary.
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