/ Group Exhibition: Linda Overzee, Sebastiaan Knot, Ben Thomas
1 Nov 2024 / 8 Dec 2024
Linda Overzee will present new work as part of a group exhibition that will be hosted in Project 2.0 / Gallery through the whole of November.
Sharing the podium with Sebastiaan Knot and Ben Thomas, Linda Overzee sees the benefit in exhibiting with others arists connected to the gallery, while recognizing that her new large-scale frescos can easily create the impression of a solo show once you enter the door to the gallery.
Linda Overzee
Linda Overzee (NL, 1960) made her debut with a solo exhibition at Project 2.0 / Gallery in 2009. Since then, her work has been displayed in many homes, offices and public buildings in The Netherlands and abroad.
Materials, aesthetics and apparent simplicity, which on closer examination always turns out to be much more complex, are central to Linda Overzee's work. It is her goal to remain faithful to her language, to broaden and enrich. Over the years new developments can always be discovered, therefore her work continues to surprise. Pure pigments and chalk are the elements Linda Overzee uses to create her fresco’s on linen. A unique process with striking results.
The frescoes are part of an age-old tradition. In Europe we know this from the Greek and Roman times. Similar techniques have been used throughout the centuries, from India to Latin America.
The frescoes from Overzee are made with traditional materials such as chalk and pure pigments. However, they are not frescoes in the original sense, if only because they are executed on canvas and not directly on a wall. It is a contemporary interpretation. The work is abstract and very labor-intensive, built up from numerous layers, where coincidence, imperfection and irregularity are cherished. Through 'crackle', oxidation and erosion, underlying sections appear that blend with the upper layers.
The final result sometimes has an impressionistic character. It can be seen as a mirror of our lives, layer-upon-layer formed by events along the way, but above all leaves room for the viewer to create their own imaginative interpretation.
Sebastiaan Knot
Sebastiaan Knot (NL 1970) is a visual artist living and working in Rotterdam - the Netherlands who uses light as his material to create contrasts of color and form with which the given space is beautified. After a diverse career as a photographer, graphic and webdesigner he went on to establish his own photography studio which he still runs successfully for 20 plus years. In recent years his work has shifted from commercial clients and commissioned assignments to fine art. Showing most recently at Project 2.0 in the Hague, he sells work both internationally and in the Netherlands. His work are in the collection of the Maasstad Hospital and in private collections. Notable exhibition has been with the Fondation Vasarely in July 2022 where his work was shown in a groupshow with Victor Vasarely and Paco Rabbane amongst others.
Ben Thomas
Australian-born artist, Ben Thomas, began working with the moving image in his younger years which sparked his initial interest in the visual arts, but it wasn’t until his mid-twenties, when he moved to Melbourne, that he began to pursue photography. Not knowing the city well, Ben saw photography as a tool to discover and document his new home.
It was this process of documentation as well as his pure fascination with his new surroundings that sparked his passion for photography. The objective in his photographic work is to create pieces that reflect a strong and individual visual aesthetic along with a revealing narrative. For Ben, the most important factor in moving forward has been to relentlessly follow his own vision and to execute that plan without compromise. Describing his photographic style as hyperreality, he creates works that challenge the boundaries of how a photograph is constructed and perceived. Ben poses to challenge the perceptions not only of what photography is, but how the built environment impacts our daily lives. Through this body of work, Ben aims to provide a way for people to consider the relationships that they form with their surroundings and how their environment affects them.
Ben is a Hasselblad Master and has recently worked with/been featured by; Hasselblad, Apple, McLaren Formula 1, Pantone, Wired, The New Yorker Magazine, Sony, Singapore Airlines, Paradiso Art Hotel Ibiza, Penguin Books and Chronicle Books.
