Dark times call for bright moments.

There’s nothing as ordinary and mundane as light and yet it is an intensely fascinating phenomenon. It’s no wonder that many artists have been enchanted by it. They attempt to capture, translate or sublimate that light, which leads to beautiful colours, atmospheres and moods, as can be seen in A Touch of Light. All kinds of metaphysical notions about light, or rather existence, have crept in through the back door. 

Observable reality is the starting point for A Touch of Light. The emphasis lies on painting, with a foray into ‘painting’ photographers and ‘painting’ conceptual artists. They all give form to light sensations in their own way. Whether the artist works in the idiom of abstraction, hard-edge and colourfield painting, post-war post-impressionism, (veiled) realism, surrealism or figuration, it always involves intensified visual perceptions. Thereby, the visible reality can no longer always be traced directly. 

But how do you actually paint light? How do you give form to this immaterial, intangible phenomenon which, moreover, is constantly changing? The paintings, photographs and ‘installations’ are poetic representations of light, atmospheric impressions in which the fleeting, ephemeral and lucid aspects are central. The sensuous works of art allow us to break free from everyday life and resonate with a universal reality.