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.

Big Oilfield, 350x150 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.
Dripping I - Drippings, 70 x 100 cm, used motor oil on heavy paper. 2021.
Composition - Compositions, 30 x 40 cm, used motor oil on paper, 2021. Verticals and horizontals, squars and lines.
exibition MuGa Heerenveen.
petromelancholia, Brutus 2023 - Group Exhibition at Brutus, Rotterdam, about the beauty of oil. Curated by Alexander Klose. Pallet painting, earthlayers and oilfields.
Big Art - Biggest Oilfield 2022 - Biggest Oilfield made so far: 600cm x 150 custom made for Big Art Amsterdam _ Bijlmer _ 2022.
Oilscape: Kiosk 24 Herford Germany 2023 - Exhibition in Herford Germany at kiosk 24 by Susanne Albrecht, curator, owner and artist (sculpture)
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.
Solo Show at Har Hensgens Gallery in Vlaardingen 2024 - Several works presented at the gallery. Curated by Har Hensgens
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 -
Pallet Painting, 2022
Pallet Painting, 2022 - Solo expo at Neck of the Woods artspace/gallery. Used motoroil on a plaate, wood, plaster. 80x60x10 cm

Neck of the Woods Artspace / Gallery

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Locatie: Olivier van Noortlaan 122, 3133AT, Vlaardingen

Neck of the Woods is in zijn opzet als kunstplatform en tentoonstellingsruimte innovatief. Onconventioneel in zijn manier van samenstellen en presenteren. In het verleden hebben zijn er tentoonstellingen geweest als Taskscaping Alterism, interventies en thema tentoonstellingen. Tegenwoordig is Neck of the Woods een volwaardige Artspace / Gallery die tentoonstellingen / exposities maakt, events organiseert en naar kunstbeurzen gaat met verschillende kunstenaars uit binnen en buitenland.

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Museumdocent: Rijksmuseum, Stedelijkmuseum, Boijmans van Beuningen

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Locatie: Rijksmuseum, Stedelijkmuseum, Boijmans van Beuningen

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