Drawing is well represented in the second anniversary exhibition, including Marcel van Eeden (1965) with a number of colour drawings of desserts and crackers and Stan Klamer (1953) who shows a series of small cartographic works. Ideas often take on their first form in drawing, the directness and informal nature of the medium give you direct access to the artist's thoughts and emotions. Martin Assig (1959) shows the fears, desires and joys of life in his St. Paul series, four new works from the series will be on show.
EQUIPE 2 also hosts several painters. Tobias Lengkeek (1991) shows paintings on panel that were once mounted on his skate ramp in last year’s exhibition Prospects & Concepts of the Mondriaan Fund. Andrea Freckmann (1970) shows her large painting Mesdames Moustaches in which she portrays herself and her dog in a dune landscape. Diederik Gerlach (1956) made four small paintings entitled Spitzwege referring to Carl Spitzweg, in which he depicts a man walking accompanied by a pattern of lines above him that could be seen as a ‘character map’.
For the gallery's anniversary Tobias Gerber (1961) made a gouache inspired by Joseph Beuys' performance I like America and America likes me. In the performance, staged at Gallery Rene Block in New York, Beuys was transported by ambulance to the gallery, where he, adorned with a blanket, felt hat and shepherd's staff, locked himself in a cage with a coyote. In the gouache, Maurits van de Laar, like a contemporary Beuys/shepherd, is taken by ambulance to the gallery in the Herderstraat (Shepherd Street) where he is welcomed by artists and visitors.
EQUIPE 2 is open through 24 December 2021 at Galerie Maurits van de Laar
Herderstraat 6, 2512 CV The Hague, The Netherlands
For further information on a specific work, please contact the gallery via info@mauritsvandelaar.nl or (0031).(0)70.3640151