| ‘Natural’ light will also play a major part in the work of
both the other artists participating in the exhibition. In this feature
the focus will mainly be on Nijmegen painter Agnes Kersten.
I’m quoting one of her written texts:
“The stone monuments from the Neolithic Era spread all over Europe
never cease to intrigue and amaze. They have been measured, counted, dated
and charted by archeologists. Some of them have turned out to be capable
of functioning as astronomical observatories. But what those observations
were used for remains a mystery.
The world view which caused Neolithic man to create all those rows and
circles of stones, dolmen and corridors has become lost, as has the technical-theoretical
knowledge needed to construct them. In all of Europe myths and folk tales
connected to the stones have been recorded. To all the stories told about
them I will add my own. My voyages go from place to place. I’m not
looking for the big, spectacular monuments surrounded by droves of people
and fences. Much beauty has been preserved in quiet places like Dartmoor,
remote spots in Brittany and on the Scottish isles. I watch and note in
drawings what the landscape and stone constructions convey to me. Based
on those notes I make my (…) paintings.”
Besides the often very monumental paintings (among which the impressive
quadriptych Scorhillcirlce, exhibited here for the first time) some of
her Antillean landscapes will be shown, with which Agnes made a name for
herself at the end of the Eighties.
Another contributor to the exhibition will be Odile Deblos,
a French photographer from Amiens who also participated in last year’s
exhibition Visibility.
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