> Steven Nederveen - Lands of Golden Light: 29 May – 20 June 2009 AT Conway Street, London
Steven Nederveen
Everything She Touches Turns to Gold
Mixed Media, 2008
183 x 91 cm (73.2 x 36.4 ins)
Everything She Touches Turns to Gold
Mixed Media, 2008
183 x 91 cm (73.2 x 36.4 ins)
Steven Nederveen combines traditional Japenese painting ideas with
contemporary materials and methods. The ancient Zen like imagery of
panoramic mountain vistas, gnarled trees and swimming fish are adapted
to today’s artistic techniques. His explorations are on the aesthetic
of beautiful melancholy, a sensibility best described by the Japanese
term Wabi Sabi.
Wabi Sabi is a vague expression used to describe the beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.
However the techniques he uses are quite opposite – the virtuosity of computer editing is used to erase, blur and mimic authenticity. Assembling multiple photographic images and coating in resin. The painting then occurs on top of the edited photograph, which in turn pulls back the element of authenticity in order to maintain tension between the two ideas.
Wabi Sabi is a vague expression used to describe the beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay and death.
However the techniques he uses are quite opposite – the virtuosity of computer editing is used to erase, blur and mimic authenticity. Assembling multiple photographic images and coating in resin. The painting then occurs on top of the edited photograph, which in turn pulls back the element of authenticity in order to maintain tension between the two ideas.