Ilse van den Berk uses this year a 2011 weekly calendar with
photographs from Heinrich Hauser as source of inspiration to further
develop her paintings. She has a weekly challenge to translate the photo
into a painting. The objective is to get more insight into her personal
process of making a painting and better understanding of the essence of
her art.
Every Monday she turns the calendar to the next page. That week's photo
is the starting point for the painting that has to be finished by Sunday
night. The size of the weekly paintings is 40 x 50 cm. Between turning
the page and finishing the painting, she makes a lot of sketches and
decompose the picture into for her interesting shapes and lines. She
melts these shapes and lines into a new composition. At the end of the
week the process from turning the page via the sketches to the final
painting is more important than the painting itself. The result at the
end of the week could be a messy painting, that however results from an
interesting process and provided a lot of new information and learning.
The new information and learning is the objective of this one year
challenge.
By the amount of snow, the landscape in Finland is extremely white. This
also ensures an even stronger reduction of the forms in nature. The
artist notices that her work is minimized even more. There is also the
white of the landscape slowly entered into her work. Forms from the
original image goes into an environment with different shades of white.
It is precisely this variety of white shades are minimization determines
the Finnish origin of the work.
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ALLAPRIMA MUSEUM
