Project 2.0 / Gallery

Currently on show as part of our Sweet Summer Weeks is the singular work of Sanja Marušić. Through a mix of photography and painting, Marušić creates work that exists somewhere between fantasy and personal documentation.

Sanja Marušić is a Dutch-Croatian artist based in Amsterdam. She studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (KABK), and in 2013 she graduated with an Honorable Mention.

Marušić travels the world to create otherworldly images. Her practice emanates from photography and diverts to painting and collage techniques, resulting in mixed media art. Through photography she captures miniature performances in which a human figure (usually Marušić herself in self-made costumes), sometimes accompanied by another, uncannily moving through a surreal landscape. The stories she creates often find their genesis in her personal life. She manipulates her images so the landscape and the moment itself becomes more abstract, creating a surreal new world, using it as a kind of escapism for herself and the viewer.

Work by Sanja Marušić can currently be seen alongside work of Laurien Renckens and Frank Fischer. The exhibition is in show until August 2.

Part of the first phase of Sweet Summer Weeks is the abstract drip-painted work of artist Frank Fischer:

Frank Fischer was born in Zurich and now lives and works in The Hague. Fischer makes ultra-glossy linear artworks on an aluminium surface. The artworks are inspired by real masterpieces by world famous artists.

He uses the image of such a masterpiece to edit it on the computer and to stretch the image. What remains of the image is a kind of bar code where only the colour of the existing artwork can be recognised. Frank Fischer uses this barcode to create his own artwork by dripping down glossy paint, drop by drop, colour after colour.

This process is incredibly precise and time consuming, especially since the end of the top and bottom need much time to dry. When they are dried the ends look like stalactites of colour.

Works by Frank Fischer can be seen in the gallery alongside work by Sanja Marušić and Laurien Renckens until Sunday August 2.

It’s the last few days to see Transcendental Tranquility, the solo exhibition of Belgian photographer Dirk Roseport. If you have not yet had the chance to see the works, or if you want to plan a return visit, be sure to come by the gallery this weekend!

Opening times this weekend:
Friday 19 July: 12:00 - 17:00
Saturday 20 July: 12:00 - 17:00
Sunday 21 July: 13:00 - 17:00

About the series:

Roseport’s intimate seascape works invoke a meditative silence and invites the viewer to counter the overstimulation of our modern existence in favour of a quiet contemplation. In his Transcendental Tranquility series, Roseport withdraws from the pressures of time and positions himself as a receptive presence in the face of the elemental. The ocean, the horizon, and the sky—stripped down to their most austere formal essence—become his sole vocabulary. It is from this disciplined restraint that a body of work emerges that far transcends its apparent simplicity.