Doggie Style serie | Studio zuidoost
Larkin Durey | London | UK
23 MARCH – 8 APRIL 2016
In her second show with the gallery, Van Haver presents two new mural scale paintings along with a group of small intimate portraits. She works on burlap, often combining oil paint, charcoal, gypsum, newspaper and ash in heavily textured compositions.
Doggy style serie is reflecting on the story of a close group of friends in Amsterdam southeast , Bijlmer, where the artist resides. Where their daily life consist on their studio practice to record rap and trap music, the street and walking their dogs.
The work talks about street life, music and fashion and shows a glimpse of the street life in Amsterdam.
The artist skilfully fuses great traditions of painting and the more contemporary practices of graffiti in her local surroundings. She begins by collecting imagery, either found or from her own photography and sketches. These are then deconstructed and fragmented through collage to produce a new reality. Surface and subject are finally merged into relief using thick layers of oil paint. The stories they tell are recognisable to the viewer, but left open and inviting interpretation.
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