Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Amy Sillman: A Painter's Dialogue With Gesture and History Amy Sillman (born 1955) is a New York-based visual artist whose work explores the intersection of abstraction and figuration, often employing unconventional media like animation, zines, and installation. Her artistic practice operates as a continuous conversation with art historical tropes—particularly postwar American gestural painting—serving as both inspiration and deliberat
e foil. Sillman’s approach isn't merely about replicating past styles; it’s about actively questioning their assumptions of mastery, genius, and power, introducing qualities like humor, awkwardness, self-deprecation, affect, and doubt into her creative process. Critics describe Sillman as championing “the relevance of painting” and “a reinvigorated mode of abstraction reclaiming the potency of active brushwork and visible gestures,” hi…