Author: Edited by: Friedman Benda, Texte von David Anfam, A.M. Homes, Gestaltung von Dan Miller Design;
Title: Koen van den Broek. Insomnia and the Greenhouse,
Description: GE, Hatje Cantz, 2012 Hardback, 245x305mm, 100p, 44 colour illustrations, English edition. ISBN 9783775734783. ¶ The paintings of Koen van den Broek (*1973 in Bree) draw attention with their genuine, unique perspectives and range of perceptual possibilities. The artist wanders the surface of the world, finding visual inspiration on the peripheries of the city, on insignificant facades, empty highways, closed garages, lofty viaduct pillars, and desolate curbsides. Using his own photographic diaries of trips throughout America, Asia, and Europe as source material, van den Broek turns layered visual experience into compelling oil paintings on canvas. The compositions are vaguely familiar, but brushstroke and paint texture re-create, re-imagine and invent new realities. This publication presents the conflation of two exemplary projects: a monumentally-scaled series of paintings from the Insomnia cycle, painted in Antwerp, and a smaller, intimately nuanced group of paintings of the Greenhouse, created by the artist during a residency in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Exhibition schedule: Friedman Benda, New York, starting 2013 | other stations TBA.

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