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RINUS VAN DE VELDEGoethestraße 2/3, 10623 Berlin
17 January – 22 February 2025
Opening: Friday, 17 January, 6 – 8pm
Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Rinus Van de Velde at Goethestraße 2/3 and Bleibtreustraße 15/16 in Berlin. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and his first in the Berlin spaces.
In a practice spanning drawing, installation, sculpture and video work, Rinus Van de Velde creates a fictional autobiography, drawing on imagined memories of a life never lived. In his pictorial world, the possibilities of reality have no limits. Due to their unusually large format, Van de Velde's drawings are reminiscent of paintings, giving the medium an autonomous character. While he initially worked exclusively with charcoal on paper, in recent years the artist began to introduce colour to his works, creating larger oil pastels, alongside small pencil drawings. In the works on paper, handwritten texts can be found underneath the pictures, testifying to fears, wishes and longings, among other things. The words anchor the drawings in a larger narrative and determine their place within it. The video works and sculptures, which are often props for the artist’s films or depict scenes in miniature, are also part of this construct. Here the textual element can be found again in the extensive titles.
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https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/rinus-van-de-velde-2025
Image: Rinus Van de Velde, I am just sure I will find you Robert, ..., 2024
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Galerie Max Hetzler (Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin), Goethestraße 2, 10623 Berlin, Deutschland,Berlin, Germany
