Kees Goudzwaard
I try to slow down the gaze.
Kees Goudzwaard via Vereniging Vrienden Museum Arnhem, 2023
Kees Goudzwaard (1958, Netherlands) is widely regarded for his meticulous, layered compositions that explore illusion and reality, often referencing the construction of the image itself. Using colored tape and transparent film as his starting point, he translates these arrangements into precise paintings, transforming the ephemeral into the enduring. His works invite close, sustained attention and act as quiet meditations on time, process, and perception.Goudzwaard blends artistic traditions spanning three centuries, amalgamating the playful precision of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings with the avant-garde movements of pre- and post-war abstraction in Europe and America.
