| Wilma Visser’s work is the most abstract so I’d
like to give you a closer introduction to it with this text by Hedy Buursma:
“Looking at Wilma Visser’s paintings (Heerlen 1962) I always
feel a bit moved. The paintings-often long and narrow, lying or standing
up-are mostly subdued in color. They are sober and quiet, characteristics
shared-even though they are of a quite different nature-by her charcoal
drawings. A greater difference between the ephemeral charcoal and the
durable oil paints-painted layer across layer-is hardly imaginable. This
way of working requires a totally different concentration. The deliberation
with which the paintings are realized contrasts with the more expressive
technique of the drawings.
The drawings aren’t inferior to the paintings, and neither do they
give rise to create paintings; they are independent works of art. Nevertheless
there is a great deal of correlation between the paintings and the drawings,
not just with respect to a number of formal aspects, but also with regards
to the conceptual backgrounds. The paintings show aspects of drawings--
it is like paint is being used to draw instead of paint with; in the drawings
a paint-like aspect may crop up, for which charcoal is unmistakably more
suited than any other drawing material.
Where the charcoal has been rubbed into the surface of the paper and
lines are hardly perceptible, the light is caught and reflected. The materiality
of the oil-paints has been reduced, the brush stroke only visible a little
here and there, but the paint is mostly color and light.”
Helm de Laat
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