Koen Doodeman
I am very much interested in what is a painting, painting as a construction, painting as a material reality and what I really am interested in is almost some kind of a crossing between material reality and the image. It's like crossing the here and now and there and then.
Koen Doodeman (1989, Netherlands) makes handwoven acrylic paintings on cotton that shift between textile and image, surface and space. His bold compositions of intersecting color and pattern evoke refracting light and dancing geometry, while seams and stitches lend the work a tactile, physical presence. From a distance, the works resemble panel paintings, but closer inspection reveals their woven structure—blurring the lines between painting, textile, and photographic surface.
Doodeman is interested in the moment between mediums, where textile is seen through a painterly lens and image becomes material. His works interweave abstract motifs with figurative elements such as plants and sunsets, creating layered compositions that hover between depth and flatness, symbol and abstraction. This constant balancing act invites the viewer to examine their own ways of seeing and interpreting visual information.
