"Drawings"
Teun Hocks
"Small Paintings"
Mike Pratt
TORCH gallery
Lauriergracht 94 1016 RN Amsterdam The Netherlands
Telephone : +31 20 626 02 84 email
4 March > 10 AprilL, 2021
TORCH Gallery is happy to reopen its doors with 2 new exhibitions:
Teun Hocks
Drawings
The front space of the gallery is home to an exhibition of new drawings by Teun Hocks. During recent isolation, Hocks started making large-scale drawings again from the comfort of his own home. The keen sense of narrative and comedic touches, always an integral part of his work, especially come to the fore in these simple yet surreal drawings. While Hocks is usually the actor in his own painted-over photographs, in his drawings he is free to invent other anti-heroes to act out awkward situations: a man walking a tightrope sloppily tied between a stool and a houseplant, a man raking leaves during a storm.
Teun Hocks (1947, NL) lives and works in central France and Rotterdam, NL. He is one of the founders and icons of staged photography in the Netherlands. His work is exhibited worldwide and is part of a large number of institutional and private collections.
Mike Pratt
Small Paintings
TORCH Gallery invited Brinkman & Bergsma to curate this exhibition. The back space of TORCH Gallery hosts Small Paintings, an exhibition of recent works by Mike Pratt curated by Jacko Brinkman and Frits Bergsma. These paintings are a mix between light, singlelayered pictures and heavily worked surfaces. In order to create balanced images, Pratt often applies and adds layers, like silkscreened prints over painted colours. These saturated and textured surfaces are so tactile, one is almost tempted to touch them. He adds another layer of meaning to the works by assigning them titles like Sink and Pillow, which invite the viewer to create their own associations.
Mike Pratt (1987, UK) lives and works in northern England. He completed a two-year postgraduate programme at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2014. In 2016 he won the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting (Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst). He has exhibited in the Netherlands and all over the United Kingdom, among other places.
Teun Hocks
Drawings
The front space of the gallery is home to an exhibition of new drawings by Teun Hocks. During recent isolation, Hocks started making large-scale drawings again from the comfort of his own home. The keen sense of narrative and comedic touches, always an integral part of his work, especially come to the fore in these simple yet surreal drawings. While Hocks is usually the actor in his own painted-over photographs, in his drawings he is free to invent other anti-heroes to act out awkward situations: a man walking a tightrope sloppily tied between a stool and a houseplant, a man raking leaves during a storm.
Teun Hocks (1947, NL) lives and works in central France and Rotterdam, NL. He is one of the founders and icons of staged photography in the Netherlands. His work is exhibited worldwide and is part of a large number of institutional and private collections.
Mike Pratt
Small Paintings
TORCH Gallery invited Brinkman & Bergsma to curate this exhibition. The back space of TORCH Gallery hosts Small Paintings, an exhibition of recent works by Mike Pratt curated by Jacko Brinkman and Frits Bergsma. These paintings are a mix between light, singlelayered pictures and heavily worked surfaces. In order to create balanced images, Pratt often applies and adds layers, like silkscreened prints over painted colours. These saturated and textured surfaces are so tactile, one is almost tempted to touch them. He adds another layer of meaning to the works by assigning them titles like Sink and Pillow, which invite the viewer to create their own associations.
Mike Pratt (1987, UK) lives and works in northern England. He completed a two-year postgraduate programme at De Ateliers in Amsterdam in 2014. In 2016 he won the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting (Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst). He has exhibited in the Netherlands and all over the United Kingdom, among other places.
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