1999’s last exhibition in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal was a presentation of work by three Zeeland artists who venture into fields normally considered to be the domain of science and politics: Hein Verwer, Marinus van Dijke and Kees de Valk.
One on One, de Middelburgse Salon 1 (The Middelburg Salon) was an exhibition featuring Zeeland artists Hein Verwer, Marinus van Dijke and Kees de Valk. All three venture into fields normally considered to be the domain of physics, biology and politics.
Hein Verwer
Hein Verwer had chosen salt as his medium. After endless experimenting, using different kinds and concentrations of salt, he almost accidentally arrived at the images shown in De Vleeshal’s cabinets. Here, some twenty slates were laid out on a large, rough workbench, displaying Verwer’s ‘salt landscapes’: subtle drawings made from salt crystals.
Marinus van Dijke
Marinus van Dijke presented his ‘portraits’ of six quadrants of the same dip in the dunes. The differences between the quadrants are underlined by the different mediums Van Dijke employed, each possessing their own language: sand sculptures; engravings; silk screen printing; photography and painting.
Kees de Valk
The starting point for the work shown by Kees de Valk was a 1995 newspaper photograph of the interior of Serajevo’s library, destroyed by mortar fire. De Valk used this photograph to create a luminous cross. The newspaper photo also inspired other works, prints of which were on display in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal. One of these was a print of De Valk’s Uitleg van een beeld (Explanation of an image), painted on the metal fence surrounding Serajevo’s former library.
