In a group exhibition Smudgen, Mathijsen utilizes a green steel frame to house sculptures made of plaster. The sculptures consist of architectural casts, models, forms cast in plaster. There are also two casts of Amsterdam School ornaments from public space. The face of a boy, repeated several times, and a girl, resting on a curtain of plaster. Although the installation of the sculptures occupies the entire floor of the gallery, they do not overshadow the other works (paintings), but rather maintain a transparent presence.

PRESS RELEASE

Gerhard Hofland is proud to present Smudgen, a group exhibition of new work by Dutch artists Janine van Oene (1988), Pim Blokker (1974), and Tim Mathijsen (1987). This exhibition marks the first time each of these artists has shown work at the gallery, and at the same time marks the introduction of Janine van Oene as the latest artist to represent Gerhard Hofland.

Smudgen brings together the work of three artists who find each other in their preference to work manually, are not afraid to roll up their sleeves, and whose practice questions and disrupts our perception of (visual) reality, rather than working from existing frameworks. The title of the exhibition refers with a wink to the artists' pasty working methods and attitude towards the process of making.