Gallery Space Remmelink
Let the light shine in
In the new series of works, Braspenning paints interior spaces. The walls of the spaces are thick and made of paint. They literally step outside the frame of the painting, creating a great sense of spaciousness. There are rooms, where objects meet. There is a box, half open. A bare bulb hangs from the ceiling. A chair. A socket. It suggests human presence, but everything seems frozen in time. The tarnish on the walls confirms it.
If you look a little longer, you become more aware of the space and see not just a room but a half-open yellowed box framing its own interior space. You just can’t see what’s inside. In the wall is a blue square hole. A cat flap? Braspenning himself refers to it as ‘transitions’. It suggests a space behind it. Each boundary is also a new beginning.
And there is a painting on the wall, a time tunnel. Rembrandt, Vermeer, not the least of them. Combined with a light bulb on the ceiling, this is not an everyday situation. Are we witnessing a secret and long-forgotten den of robbers here? Is it the artist’s upper room, where attributes from the past converge with the masters of the past he admires? It makes for a mysterious whole, raising questions and leaving you to make your own space and story.
September 1 15:00 Opening Galerie Ruimte Remmelink, Delft
September 22, 15:00 finisage, Welcome!