Near to the Echo

Bas Wiegmink paints with many contrasts in an exuberant, romantic colour palette, sometimes even fluorescent. His cinematic and free way of painting makes viewing permanently interesting. In his earlier work, trees and plants grow wild between buildings. Exuberant flora has taken up all the space there, sometimes with remains of human life. In Wiegmink’s new paintings, the flora remains present with powerful, convincing touches and in intense colours, but nature undergoes an apparent order. She now floats, as it were caught in an all-encompassing grid, in all kinds of changing infinite structures. Like an escapist, he examines the form in order to be able to constantly renew itself, a contrast that betrays the ambiguity of reality.