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Overkleeft, Joop

The power of limitation and the confrontation with a dissonance in an interplay that is constantly changing. Balancing on the border between concrete and abstract.
"When designing images, I am primarily concerned with the relationship between forms of nature and cultural phenomena. It is of great influence to learn to 'see'. Which forms are created by water...?" (© 2013-2019-Joop Overkleeft)

With frame.
From the 28.11.2019 to see in the sales exhibition in the gallery Bülles (Duisburg, Germany).

Joop Overkleeft is a painter, graphic artist and cool photo who 'lives' from the water and the rivers; it is his great source of inspiration and muse.
Overkleeft has been drawing and photographing since his childhood, and he eventually started at the art academy in Arnhem.
An exhibition by Sean Scully in Bieleveld determined the direction of his work.
The source of inspiration has remained and it is about the power of the limitation: balancing on the border between concrete and abstract.
Joop Overkleeft regularly participates in exhibitions, and makes paintings, woodcuts and photos.
Since recent years he has also focused on making Japanese woodcuts with traditional materials and methods.