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KATINKA LAMPE

SLASHGALErIE LEs fILLEs du cALvAIrE18.03.2016 > 30.04.2016

sOLO sHOW ArT PArIsGrANd PALAIs31.03.2016 > 03.04.2016

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Katinka Lampe, a Dutch artist, is pursuing a re-markable career, filled with many exhibitions and groups of paintings that combine a striking mo-dernity, through her style and subjects choices, with the heritage of the history of painting and the portrait genre – to which the current Dutch scene contributes several worthy representa-tives, whether for painting or photography.

In 2014, she showed an outstanding exhibition at the famous Van Loon Museum in Amsterdam. The museum holds an historical collection of fa-mily portraits, spanning several centuries. The

descendants, still owners and patrons, remain very involved in the contemporary art wor-ld, to which they dedicate temporary exhibitions. This time, they looked to push further, connecting the portraits collection with a large ensemble commissioned from Katinka Lampe. She worked on it for over two years. For the exhibit, she reshuffled the whole dis-play in the museum, so that her portraits mirrored those of the collection, inside the rooms of this big XVIIth century bourgeois mansion, presented with their XVIIIth century furniture and setting. With over 35 000 visits, the exhibition was a resounding success, and reso-nated deeply with amateurs of both old and contemporary art.

Yet Katinka Lampe’s portraits of the van Loon family are decidedly modern since they mainly depict – as is customary for her – young people clothed with garments and acces-sories, verging on fantasy and masquerade rather than the protestant solemnity of the classical portraits. Lampe similarly twists the secular rules of subject posture by a striking framing choice, inspired by the way she shoots her models during the dressing up sessions she freely orchestrates with her characters. The frames, often close-ups, thicken the glow of strangeness surrounding a character, to sometimes form a grotesque, even grimacing figure – thus emphasizing the time discrepancy caused by the wig or mask it is wearing.In her next step, Lampe draws inspiration from these pictures for the « painting phase » - wit-hout looking for carbon copies though. Unlike some contempo-rary painters – such as Gerard Richter – whose works stem di-rectly from photographic tech-

KATINKA LAMPEFrom March18th until April 30th 2016

Opening Thursday, March 17th from 6PM to 9PM

Vue d’exposition, Musée Van Loon, Amsterdam, 2014

1216167, 2016, 160 x 120 cm

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nics, Katinka Lampe uses photography as an incubator for immersing the models in a phan-tasmagorical world and releasing their core en-ergies, while allowing for the artist to capture their singularity.

At the same time the backgrounds are crafted like free zones: depending on the tones em-ployed, the fullness of the monochromy either supports the power in the bodies volumes, or conversely lends a relative frailty to the cha-racter. The figurative lines leave the same un-

bridled autonomy to the colors. They often spread in slots dedi-cated to the motifs – which become props, defined only by an outline. Accessories, wigs, headdresses, masks, are now as many opportunities created to unleash paint through the smoothness of flat tints. Here, the density of matte color fully extends. To these abstract spaces respond, in the same pictorial space, subtle gla-zing. Its vibratory feel exquisitely conveys the delicate lightness of the skins, the evanescence of the veils and the crystalline sparkle in the jewels.

In another original exhibition at the Arnhem museum in 2015, Katinka Lampe partnered with a fellow painter, Marc Mulders, to create a contrasted scenography assembling their works, dis-tant as they are. The abstract way of her Dutch counterpart is more specifically inspired by plants and its thick substance stands in stark contrast to the distinct smoothness of her own oils. Yet Mulders almost abstract strangeness starts a de facto dialog with Lampe’s figurative world. For both, motifs are in fact subjected to their palette and vanish behind paint itself. As if they were not as many differences after all between each of their worlds. As if they managed to attest, through their plastic affinity, how the power of painting overwhelm all stylistic divides and stereotypes in which historians and critiques tend to confine painting.

This spring 2016, with Les filles du calvaire new exhibition and her solo show presented simultaneously at the Grand Palais for ART Paris, Katinka Lampe looks to once again shake up the art of por-trait painting by creating two new collections. The solo show is presented as a series and draws inspiration from classical portraits as well as fashion or cinematographic imagery. As a whole it is

6065155, 2015, 65 x 60 cm

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designed like a theater set where mannerist icons emerge, their ac-cessories (masks, tights or veils) connecting back to today’s everyday life. The experience offers surrealist reminiscences while some stylistic quirks remind of the whimsy in a certain chic and rock Anglo-Saxon culture, up to Alexander McQueen’s punk ambivalence.

As for the gallery, the hanging here is different, more solemn, as it aspires to be a place for silence and contemplation before these troubled times. The painter gives us a portrait gallery, extremely re-fined in the precision of its lines as in the tones of its bodies, subtle and minimalist, resonating with contrasted backgrounds. Then like a neo-gothic homage, the paintings and their elegant density evoke the depth of the artist’s Flemish and Dutch art and culture. With her understated and empathic manner, this Dutch painter would like to evoke silence and to offer the audience a slight visual peace, as well as a spiritual relief. And throughout this remarkable collection, the ar-tist explores a space-time in which her portraits rejoin that of History... Just for a moment.

Christine Ollier

1316163, 2016, 160 x 130 cm

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2100152, 2015, 210 x 150 cm

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4050162, 2016, 40 x 50 cm

4050161, 2016, 40 x 50 cm

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Katinka Lampe Was born in 1963 in Tilburg, NetherlandsShe lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands

sOLO EXHIBITIONs (selection)

2015 Against the light / Tegen het licht in, Museum Arnhem2014 Children’s portraits, from Sandvoort to Lampe, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam2013 Wannabe, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France

Do you like me now?, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2012 Freeze Pose, LEEAHN Gallery, Daegu, Korea Love your looks, Lieux Communs, Namur, Belgique2010 KATE, Bob & Luca Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands O you who believe, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Look at me, look me in the eyes, Van de Berge, Goes, Netherlands 2008 Rebel and Saint, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Bruxelles, Belgium2007 Old Masters, Gangs and Fashionmodels, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam

La postura, My name’s Lolita Art Galerie Madrid, SpainPose, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France

2006 Katinka Lampe, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, Netherlands 2005 Amaco, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2004 Rob de Vries Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands 2003 Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2002 Katinka Lampe, Galerie Van Wijngaarden-Hakkens, Amsterdam,

Netherlands Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2001 Van Wijngaarden-Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

GrOuP EXHIBITIONs (selection)

2016 What’s behind that painted smile, de Vishal, Haarlem, Netherlands 2015 Met Hart en Ziel, DREEF Exposities, Haarlem, Netherlands Femina, ou la réappropriation des modèles, Pavillon Vendôme, Clichy, France2014 La femme d’à côté, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris, France2013 WHITE, Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, The Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam,

Netherlands 2012 Collecters Items No.4 ‘Reconnaissance - Dutch collecters’ Eyes & some of the

placethey look The Embassy of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, Londres, Royaume-Uni

FIGUURLIJK, Musée d’Hilversum, Hilversum, NetherlandsForever yours, SCHUNCK Heerlen, Netherlands

2011 Ainsi soit-il, Art contemporain, Eglise Saint Loup, Namur, Belgium2010 The Best Dutch Book Designs, TheTemporary Stedelijk at the Stedelijk Museum,

Amsterdam, Netherlands2009 Portraits of the XXth century, Musée Gorcums, Gorinchem, Netherlands2008 The new force in painting, Frissiras museum, Athenes, Greece

Visual Moods, Museum Schunck, Heerlen, NetherlandsNext Chicago, Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005 See the man..., Musée Gorcum, Gorinchem, Netherlands2003 De Watertoren, Vlissingen, Netherlands2002 Gala of the Year, Ron Mandos Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands2001 Portraits, CBK, Rotterdam, Netherlands

PuBLIcATIONs

2015 Against the light / Tegen het licht in, Cataloque Museum Arnhem Mister Motley, Tegen het licht in De Gelderlander, Marco van Nek, Schoonheid als middel om te worden geraakt.

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Collect, Iris de Feyter, Kunst moet bezweren.2014 Grace, Katinka Lampe, Léa Bismuth2013 Vrij Nederland 15, 13 april 2013 Sander Pleij, Het probleem seks FD persoonlijk 30 maart 2013 Anne Berk, Wannabe’s ADBlog 18.03.13

http://www.amsterdamadblog.com/inspiration/katinka-lampe2012 LEEAHN Gallery, Korea, catalogue ‘Freeze Pose’ Art.Es nr 51 ‘project Katinka Lampe ‘I will be bigger than Kate Moss & Naomi Cambell’ Public Art, 068, Korea, Lee Hye-rin, Katinka Lampe, ‘Storytelling by extraordinary

children’. Residence nr 11, Ellen Leijser, Artist impression Katinka Lampe Eigen Huis & Interieur, nr 7 Esther Darley ‘Atelier Katinka Lampe kunstenaar‘ Elle Decoration, april 2011 VT Wonen, Binnenkijker BE-art-website, Beatrice Chassepot, ‘Katinka Lampe, a singular portraitist Kleur in Beeld,ArtEz Press / Terra Lannoo Art.Es, international contemporary art issue 45, Beatrice Chassepot, ‘The first time I

saw your face’ Public Art, Korea, coverimage july 2010 KATE, BOB & LUCA, Katinka Lampe, Kristien Hemmerechts d’Jonge Hond Kunstbeeld nr 5, Machteld Leij ‘Voorbij de onschuld’ Arco catalogue2010 L’Officiel nr 18, Alja Bakker, ‘Visueel statement’ AEGON catalogue,’Art for Sure’ 159 werken uit de meest besproken collectie van Nederland, d’Jonge Hond Algemeen Dagblad, 20-3-‘10, Evelien Baks, ‘ Brabants Cultureel nr 3, Lauran Toorians, ‘Portretten die het niet zijn’. Het Financiele Dagblad, Hilda Bouma, ‘Omfloerste portretten’2009 +ING Magazine, issue 31, Japan,’ Katinka Lampe, Painter’2008 Elsevier 19, Top-100 van Nederlandse kunstenaars: nr 40

OOG, Magazine of the Rijksmuseum nr 1, ‘Enge schatjes’El mundo, Arco suplemento especial, Arte y denuncia, ‘cara a cara’

Frissirasmuseum Athens, catalogue ‘New force in painting’NRC Handelsblad, Ron Rijghart, ‘Succesfactor 22’

2007 Elegance, ‘Verslaafd aan verzamelen’Connaissance des Arts n°646, ‘Les visages de Katinka Lampe’,

PZC, Rolf Bosboom ‘Katinka Lampe heeft met haar kunst geen verhaal te vertellen’Dossiers sur l’art, Ligeia Paris, ‘Le renouveau de la peinture’

2005 Katinka Lampe, ‘Schilderijen’ catalogue