KEES GOUDZWAARD

Dutch artist KEES GOUDZWAARD has done these dreamy abstract pieces using tape. They look a little like the process involved in old fashioned photography where you use tape to piece negatives together. The pieces have a real ephemeral tranlucent feel about them and remind me or Mark Rothko.

Cover (2006)

Born in 1958 and living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. Eva Wittocx describes Goudzwaard's process: "Kees Goudzwaard's creates his paintings by transferring paper models, compositions he applies to the canvas using sheets of paper and tape."

Setting for White (2011)

"Each painting is the product of an accumulation of strips of tape and areas of paper. Due to the transparent nature of the materials, there is a new nuance of colour in each overlap. Consequently, the strips of tape or the areas of paper are no longer independent entities. Whenever they coincide with other areas or strips they generate new areas and tones of colour"

Coated (2007)

The result is beautiful composition and a strong comment on colour, boundaries and process. I think they are a beautiful change from the more literal uses of tape we see being used in illustrative manners. Here is it more about the negative space and the concept of masking.


You can see more of his work here: http://www.keesgoudzwaard.org/