KARTOFFEL SHOW QUINTEN CLAUSE
Routerlands
19/06 - 24/07/2025
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Routerlands is a series of futuristic landscapes, where only self sustaining mechanical lifeforms roam the earth. Their physical form is unimportant. They cannot see each other. Yet they are very aware of each other. Some are just floating boxes with an antenna. Some have legs. Some are wireless and others live in wired groups.
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In dreamy scenes Quinten Clause (BE, 1983) paints a mixture of vague memories and personal doubts. Figurative words are depicted as literal images, suggesting a coded visual language. Bringing together recognizable elements in unusual combinations or compositions, he invites the viewer to attach a personal interpretation. Sometimes the result can be absurd or unreal, but the painter wants to give every work a certain readability.
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Every painting starts with black ballpoint pen drawings in his sketchbooks. Sometimes by observation and sometimes from imagination. Large areas of acrylic paint are then applied to the canvas, alternating with pencil lines that are then colored in again. They are often bright colors with few transitions. Some shapes are recolored a few times to get the right depth with light and dark.
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Under the pseudonym Supernapie, Quinten also makes computer games, where images do not contain too much detail. As a result, a kind of minimalism has crept into his work. Digital tricks find their way into his paintings and with his painting he also hopes to improve his computer images.
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