Han Schuil
Time is stopped by painting. It transforms reality. The becalming, physical act of painting is essential to this.
Han Schuil via Galerie Onrust, 2017
Han Schuil (1958, the Netherlands) is an artist who refuses to be defined, following instead whatever runs through his mind. With an impressive intensity what moves is captured in brightly and powerfully colored paintings and sculptures. Schuil mostly works with aluminum, increasing the intensity of his colors while referring to industrial production. The surface of the aluminum however, is battered and dented, as if it had to be bent back into shape and ironed out; a cheerful and ironic nod, perhaps, to “proper” art which, of course, shouldn’t be battered and dented.
