Jan Ros

From 6 September to 16 November 2024, the gallery is showing new paintings by Jan Ros in a solo exhibition entitled »SHOWCASE«.

City, architecture and space – these are the main themes of the Dutch painter who has been part of the gallery's programme for more than 15 years. Using photographs as source material, he transforms them into multifarious paintings mainly oriented toward space and object, but which also engender abstract passages defined entirely by color. He switches the degree of acuity and path of movement depending on the subject, modeling sculptural volumes out of broad brushstrokes, and working with stencil-like inserts and sharp contours that stand out from their painted surroundings like cut-outs.

His repertoire includes city views and famous modernist, International-style buildings, as well as images of cars and airplanes, of gas stations and transit terminals, that remind of scenes from a road movie. However, he never depicts the hectic bustle of urban life, but the silence and emptiness of deserted places without ever showing a human being.

In addition, the interaction of light and shadow, of inside and outside plays an important role, especially in his paintings of windows, which feature views of urban panoramas and thus expanding the viewer’s real space through the imagination. Moreover there are depictions of glazed staircases and empty vitrines, with which the artist explores various states of transparency and visibility in painting.

The exhibition opens on Friday, 6 September 2024 from 6 to 9 pm in the presence of the artist.

VITA
 

1961
born in Winterswijk, Netherlands

1980-81
Studies of Art History at University Utrecht

1981-87
Academy of Fine Arts, Utrecht

1987-91
Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

lives and works in Amersfoort, Netherlands

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024
Showcase, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)
Kazerne, Eindhoven (solo)

2023
Insight Out, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)

2022
Silent City, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)

2020
AVUS, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)
Interieur, Rasche Ripken, Berlin

2019
Transit, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)
ZOOM, Rasche Ripken, Berlin

2018
Full House –  10 Jahre, Rasche Ripken, Berlin
City Site, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (with Hein Spellmann)
Qade, Cruise Terminal Rotterdam (solo)

2017
24 Hours, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)

2015
Neubau, Rasche Ripken, Berlin
Rue Vierkant, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)
The Magnificant Seven, Skovbo Kunstforening, Ringsted, Kunstverening Brondby
Modernistische Architectuur in hededaagse kunst, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort

2014
Sounds of Silence, Museum CODA, Appeldoorn
De Stad in MIJ, Museum Ijsselstein
The Magnificent Seven, Kunstforening Haderslev

2013
Halte Dich fern von offenen Fenstern, Rasche Ripken, Berlin
The Poetics of Space, ACEC Apeldoorn
Futuro, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)

2011
Märklin World, Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort
Under construction, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)
Young European Landscape, Centrum Hungaricum, Berlin

2010
Galerie Contempo, Rotterdam (solo)

2009
Rush Hour, Rasche Ripken, Berlin (solo)

2008
Made in Holland, Contempo Collectie, Eindhoven
Galerie Oliver Houg, Lyon (solo)

2007
countdown, Galerie Stefan Rasche, Münster

2005
InterActiv, Palacio de Don Manuel, Evora
Kunstenlab, Deventer (with Loes Enklaar)

2004
de ruimtelijke ordening, Stadsmuseum Woerden

2002
In optima forma, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort

2001
Galerie Contempo, Rotterdam (solo)