PRESS RELEASE
In the church Sint-Nicolaas in 9100 Sint-Niklaas, Apostelplein, Belgium.
These waterworks were chosen for this theme because of their airy character. They are an attempt to suggestively cast a transparent, frail and fragile image in great pontaneity with few (fragmentary) means, without minute shape, but rather with a free gestual
approach. The light plays an important role in this, not in the sense of representing light as it falls onto objects or contrasts with darkness, but light in the choice of colours and transparency of the medium and the way it is employed. The colours never become heavy, but remain clear, transparent and the paper left white is as important in its contribution to the light as the colour used.
Light is created by transparency, blank spaces and choice of colour. After a long, dark, pressing winter, this is the return to cheerfulness and freedom.Also the blank spaces of the edge around and in the motif, contribute to the playful airy character of these large
watercolours, symbols of openness, new warmth, spring and oncoming summer: back
to sun and water, back to growth and flight in the nature of man and animal.
The Light symbolic.
Light is a condition for seeing. It is so normal that we are rarely conscious of it. It makes everything visible, but remains unnoticed itself. Nonetheless, it is a graphic means for the artist which she or he directs or a given which she or he copiously directs
her/himself at in their work and in their observation, because it is decisive for the atmosphere and thus it announces or transfers something to the viewer, without him or her becoming aware of it. It feels nice. It gives brightness, clarity and is the bearer of old archetypal meanings which any person of any culture whatsoever intuitively feels. It stands for cleanliness, goodness, sincerity, truth, spirituality, simplicity and modesty, strength, wisdom and beauty; in short, for the divine. Thus it is positively set.
© Gabriella Cleuren 2013