Opening September 1, 1-3 pm

A walk through the exhibition with Bernice Nauta, in conversation with Derk Thijs, September 1, 2-2.30 pm; 

The work of Derk Thijs (Amsterdam, 1977) is both simple and complex, recognizable and foreign. In his broad view of the world, everything can coexist. Thijs calls this ‘the fusion of the inner and outer worlds, of memories, emotions, observations and atmosphere’. That also applies to movements throughout art history. What counts is the way in which he joins everything into a single entity. The result is often deceptively simple. That is primarily because Thijs ignores the laws of perspective and scarcely seems to introduce any sort of hierarchy in an image. Not infrequently his paintings evoke associations with children’s drawings or medieval alterpieces in which everything happens at the same time, where time and place are completely interchangeable, and where the artist zooms in and out of the same image.