WIHH Gallery

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About "Lon Godin"

Lon Godin's paintings are often large and have an immediate impact without being narrative. Movement, patterns, light are the elements with which her large canvases impress. The paintings evoke associations with architecture or nature.

Movement is noticeable in all paintings. Color areas sometimes appear out of focus, like a moved photo, structures pulsate in the space of the painting, draw you in as a spectator or take you at breakneck speed across the surface of the canvas. All this is reflected in her video installations and photos. But that's obvious. Light is the brush of photography. She also uses it in her abstract paintings.
As a viewer you are initially captured by the power and dynamic beauty of the image. Gradually you enter the world of painting Godin, you recognize the rules, the qualities of the brushstroke, the rhythm of the form and the necessity of the structure. In this way the work gains meaning and it continues to speak to you.

Insight into her working method and awareness of the importance of her choices during the painting itself are important for the understanding of her work. What seems obvious is the result of a very disciplined and highly skilled exploration of painting. Lon Godin has been creating abstract art throughout her career. Photos, film and especially paintings. It seems an obligatory statement, but it is essential: abstract art is different from non-imaginary art. Lon Godin makes abstract work. She starts from structure and color. In doing so, she consciously works in a now long and rich tradition of artists who create abstract art, from Malevich and De Stijl to Gerhard Richter and Gunther Forg. In addition to color, light, form and structure are the important actors on the canvas.

Lon Godin builds up her paintings very carefully; constructs the forms and gives effect to the execution as if the logic of the painting dictated her hand. First, there is a series of actions that create a structure. The painting fills itself from the action and the materiality of the brushstrokes. There is not first a performance or a concept. She starts from a painterly credo, in which the structure and the painting itself, together with the self-imposed limitations, will ultimately determine the image.

In the seemingly small field of abstract art, every detail and every gesture matters. The thickness of the paint, the reference to the shape of a structure, the end of the paint stroke, the slightest intervention can create associations with work by famous predecessors. Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, Per Kirkeby, or Sean Scully, her work fits into a painting tradition that knows these artists as dominant beacons. Movement, space and emotional charge are the result of a strictly personal search for the control of art. For Lon, color in itself is nothing. Color is part of the outcome of painting. For her, in the first instance in the painting, but also in her photos and videos, it is about space that is created by light, movement and color (or black and white).

She has been strict for a long time, she says. She concentrated on systematics, the quality of the paint stroke, space, materiality and dynamics. Part of her fascination is how much of that rigor can be let go without the image acting randomly. How to find a parallel between experiences in 'reality' and experiencing the painting.

2019 Jeroen Chabot

Exhibitions

2020
-New Studio in Berlin
–Big Art No. 5
–Action of Becoming / Solo Galerie Agnes Raben

2019
–PAN ASAP Gallery Amsterdam
–Art the Hague ASAP Gallery Den Haag
–Art on Paper Janknegt Gallery Amsterdam
–Big Art Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–Concepts in Abstact Art Reuten Galerie Amsterdam

2018/2019
–Hydrography VI e9a Projectspace Freiburg (D)

2018
–Van Verhalend tot Abstract Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–6 voor 6 Loods 6 Beurs Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–Boogie Woogie Rhythm Section Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–Pli selon Pli PHK 18 Rotterdam
–Parabool Beeckestijn Velzen Zuid

2017/2018
– UTOPIA – Art Fair Rythm Section Istanbul

2017
–% TIL Gallery London
–Preview Frankenfelde (D)
–Perpetuum II Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–It’s so real Berlin

2016
–DING FÜR MICH Solo exhibition Reuten Galerie Amsterdam

2015
–Amsterdam Drawing Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–HYDROGRAPHY Artothek München (D)

2014
–DOPPLER SHIFT Extended Play Visual Arts Center New Jersey (USA)
–FRINGE Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–Stop an Go Video screening- art -Tour USA/EU
–Sound Flick Video-screening Apeldoorn    

2013/2014
–To Catch a Falling Feather LUMC Leiden
–TRACES Stedelijk Museum s’Herthogenbosch s Herhogenbosch
–To Catch a Falling Feather Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam

2013
-HYDROGRAPHY Vishal Haarlem
-Nature Morte-LUMEN  – Solo Reuten Galerie  inThe Guesthouse van Vous Etes Ici Amsterdam
-Nature Morte-LUMEN Schiphol Airport – VIP Lounge Amsterdam
-Nature Morte-LUMEN II Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-ART Rotterdam Reuten Galerie Rotterdam

2012
-Vier Abstracten Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-Lense Based Reuten Galerie Amsterdam

2011
-Een I treurend om een punt SCHUNCK* Heerlen
-Triple View Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-ART Amsterdam  Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-recent movements in non-objective art Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-Construction en cours Paris Concret Parijs

2010
-Riddle Of Telltale Properties Malplaquettte Berlijn
–Panta Rhei Solo-exhibition Reuten Galerie Amsterdam

2009
-Portes ouvertes Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
-ART Amsterdam Reuten Galerie Amsterdam
–Salon Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
-Animation Night PICTURA Dordrecht

2007
–Borderliners – Videoanimation SCHUNCK* Heerlen      

2006
–Nature Morte – Solo-exhibition videoanimations, book, paintings Reuten Galerie Amsterdam                                

 

Work in collection :
-SCHUNCK* Heerlen
-Martijn en Jeanette Sanders Haarlem
-Rini Dippel Amsterdam
-Wim Crouwel Amsterdam
-Ruyter de Wildt Scheveningen
-Anne Lampen Berlin
-Be Woltjer Rotterdam
-Nauta Dutihl Rotterdam               

 

Asignments:
-Anne Lampen architekten Berlin (D) 2009
Ontwerp en screening façade en 3D image voor ‘Stadtbad Wedding’
-Private Collection Almere 2008
Foto-installatie corridor
-van Herk & de Kleijn architecten Amsterdam 2005
Screening voor glasfaçade, IJburg
-CBK Rotterdam 1997
Kunst openbare ruimte. Straatschildering

                                                    

Other activities:
-Grafic design and photography
Freelance assignments Berlin 2008/present
Anne Lampen Architekten BDA
-Grafic design and photography Amsterdam 2000/2009
van Herk & de Kleijn architecten BNA
-Decor Arcam lezing Brakke grond Amsterdam 2006
van Herk &de kleijn architecten
-Grafic design and photography Amsterdam 2005 /2006
BO6 architectenbureau bna
-Inside Out-Tentoonstelling ABC Amsterdam 2006
van Herk &de kleijn architecten

Publicaties:
-Kunstbeeld 2013
-Kunstbeeld 2015

Stipendia:
-Stipendium Bewezen Talent – Mondriaanfonds 2014/2018
-Tijlfonds 2012
-Basistipendium Fonds BKVB 2006/2010
-Productie-stipendium Fonds BKVB 1999

Born:
-Sydney Australië 1958
-Lives in Nederland sinds/since 1961

 

Education:
-Willem de Kooning academy
Schilderen, Tekenen en Ontwerpen Rotterdam 1983/1987
-Rijksacademie Amsterdam 1982/1983