Nan Tai Temple x Nunu Fine Art : Kees Goudzwaard’s Colour Workshop and Artist Talk in Tainan

Event

Kees Goudzwaard's works which at first sight appear to be minimal colour studies constructed from rectangles of paper and masking tape. But seen close up, the works are revealed as painstakingly created oil paintings. He develop oil paintings of abstract collages, the process is slow and complex but also aesthetical and conceptual. The slow process of creating the paintings allows Kees to capture time as a solid entity. This is why his creating process becomes conceptually important. To let more people know and understand Kees's work and its concept, Nunu Fine Art not only hold Kees Goudzwaard's solo exhibition in Taipei site, but also collaborate with Fo Guang Shan Nan Tai Temple to hold Artist Talk in Tainan. In Artist Talk, Kees Goudzwaard will share how he communicate with viewer by a purely pictorial universe made of colour, space and depth; a universe made of transparencies, borders and grids and it testifies to painting's unabashed communicative power.

Workshop

The students choose their favorite color and paint on the papers. Kees said this is the basic skill of painting. The brush have to completely soak in the color and paint it on the paper equally.

Follow Kees Goudzwaard’s direction , each student turns three original colors into nine different colors, and cut the nine color papers into triangles to form a bigger triangle. Then each student brings their own big triangle and put them together on a white fabric. Kees will lead the students to watch and think about how to arrange these triangles during the process.

Kees said the models he created have difference size. He will imagine the final image of the model, then adjust the position of the color elements. Base on this idea, students of workshop will discuss with each other, look at the triangles, think the position, and rearrange it for the perfectly final image. Just like experience the creating process of Kees.