Evi Vingerling
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
8 January, 2011 – 26 February, 2011

The exhibition examines and explores the structures and patterns that form the world around us; the forms are stripped of their context and reevaluated. Vingerling’s paintings are gouache or oil on canvas. In most works much of the painting is left in the prime stages with deliberate minimal brush marks in lines or patterns. Vingerling works to describe the fundamental characteristic and eradicate all parts of the context of forms found in her daily surroundings. The distillation is an attempt to grasp the existence of the natural world. The paintings seen together reflect a world reminiscent of the one we know, but where meaning or historical reference has been discarded. The work process is systematic but intuitive, sometimes resulting in a sense of frustration at not being able to seize hold of the moment completely, because reasoning gets in the way.

A selection of Vingerling’s latest paintings and related gouaches on paper is on view in her 2nd solo show at Ellen de Bruijne Projects.