Johannes Steendam

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Oilfields -

The Oilfields are abstract compositions of lines and fields made with used motor oils on paper. An unusual medium, but a medium nonetheless, that has had its journey through time on this planet and is part of the journey in time. But onlooking the oilfields it also resonates and on a personal, individual, level. And as an artist to gain knowledge through working and painting with this new material. To what can be discovered through painting and creating images. About looking and contemplating.

For it is so much more than just the unusual medium, the love for the experiment proceeds in finding out how it can be used to create a layered artform, with depth, adding to the fast and global art collection and the styles through art history. To find its place inside the diverend art forms and plasticism. So that is where time and space meet each other. The spaces that get created by this process between the lines and strokes generate a contrast of transparency, lightness versus dark, above and beyond.

Palletpaintings 2024 - Next to the earthlayers the palletpaintings are the newest works that are evolving within my playingfield of abstract compositions - time - material - zero - abstract exprsionism - earth - nature - objet trouve - oil - transformation -object -concept - And ofcourse the relation of landscapes and human intervention and perception -

Solo Show at Har Hensgens Gallery in Vlaardingen 2024 - Several works presented at the gallery. Curated by Har Hensgens

Art DenHaeg 2023 – Artfair, Neck of the Woods artspace/gallery Booth 13 - Several oilfields and earthlayers presented and sol at the art fair in Den Haeg.

Oilscape: Kiosk 24 Herford Germany 2023 - Exhibition in Herford Germany at kiosk 24 by Susanne Albrecht, curator, owner and artist (sculpture)

Big Art – Biggest Oilfield 2022 - Biggest Oilfield made so far: 600cm x 150 custom made for Big Art Amsterdam _ Bijlmer _ 2022.

petromelancholia, Brutus 2023 - Group Exhibition at Brutus, Rotterdam, about the beauty of oil. Curated by Alexander Klose. Pallet painting, earthlayers and oilfields.

Composition - Compositions, 30 x 40 cm, used motor oil on paper, 2021. Verticals and horizontals, squars and lines.

Dripping I - Drippings, 70 x 100 cm, used motor oil on heavy paper. 2021.

Big Oilfield, 350×150 cm 2020 - The biggest Oilfield so far. The works of motor oil on paper originate from experiments in 2012 with the unusual medium. The oil fields relate to the landscape against the abstract. Both literally and figuratively. Fossil fuels have changed many landscapes in many ways. In addition to this 'landscape', themes such as process, time, temporality, travel and experience relate to this work. Come, be, go and disappear. Apart from this, it is ultimately about painting and the correct proportions. They are compositions of stripes, surfaces, lines, tones and fading. Technique and medium.