Kees Goudzwaard - Biography

KEES GOUDZWAARD

° 1958, Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Lives and works in Arnhem (The Netherlands)

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Kees Goudzwaard creates his paintings by transferring paper models, compositions he applies to the canvas using sheets of paper and tape. The process by which Goudzwaard’s work come into being consists of two parts: he first makes a model, which he then translates into paint on canvas. He sees the model as a temporary example. Goudzwaard the painstakingly places different areas of paper – often a combination of coloured and transparent paper – next to and above one another. He attaches the paper with tape, usually along the full length of the edge of the paper. In other examples of his work an area of colour covers the entire canvas onto which Goudzwaard has then stuck a criss-cross pattern of strips of tape. Sheets of paper and tape are used as a stand-in for areas of colour and lines: these are the building blocks which are meant to help him come into contact with the composition. When we look at Goudzwaard’s paintings we see a three-dimensional effect that is the result of a multiplicity and accumulation of shapes rather than of lines.
(Eva Wittocx, catalogue S.M.A.K., 2005)

Kees Goudzwaard had exhibitions in Nijmegen (NL) in 2001 and Hamburg (DE) in 2004. He was included in a group show in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo (NL) and in 2003 in Mexico City, where he constructed a site-specific work. In summer 2005 his work was a part of the ‘New Accents in Contemporary Dutch and Flemish Art’ exhibition at the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf (DE) and in 2006 he had a solo exhibition at Culturgest in Lissabon (PT). In 2007 a solo exhibition opened at Zeno X Gallery and Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2007	Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE) and Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout (BE), (March 16 - April 14)
2006	Culturgest, Lissabon (PT) (May 19 – August 25) (cat.)
2005	S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE) (May 28 – July 31) (cat.)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2008	'Academia: De la transmission à l art', Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts , Paris (FR), (September - December, 2008)
	'Art is a fight to the finish between black and white', Zeno X Gallery + Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (January 9 - March 8)
2007	'De cirkel', Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte (BE), (March 25 - May 20)
2006	"25 years Zeno X Gallery", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (October 17 - December 2)
	"Collectiepresentatie", S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), (January 27 - April 2)
2005	“Slow Art: Neue Akzente aus den Niederlanden und Flandern”, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE), (July 16 – November 6) (cat.)
2004	“Frontal Views”, CBK, Nijmegen (NL) (cat.)
2003	“Storage and Display”, Programa Art Center, Mexico City (MX) (cat.)
2002	“ROMA publications", Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)
2001	“This is how it feels”, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
	“Taal in beeld”, Museum De Wieger, Deurne (BE) (cat.)

PUBLICATIONS


2006	Sequent Culturgest, Porto (PT)
2005	Schilderijen S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), text by Eva Wittocx, Sebastian Hackensmidt, Phillipe van Cauteren
	Kunst Nu S.M.A.K, Gent (BE)
2004	Frontal View Edited by ROMA Publications, Amsterdam (NL), text by Dieter Roelstraete
	Storage and Display Edited by ROMA Publications, Amsterdam (NL), text by Dieter Roelstraete
2001	Taal in beeld Museum de Wieger, Deurne (BE), text by Rob Smolders
2000	Extra Room Academiegalerie, Utrecht (NL)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


	Bouwfonds Art Collection (NL)
	Collectie Gemeente Nijmegen (NL)
	De Nederlandse Bank, Amsterdam (NL)
	Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
	Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf (DE)
	Provincie Gelderland (NL)
	Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US)
	S.M.AK., Gent (BE)