Chasing the Horizon

Date: 9 June – 27 June, 1995

Presentation of the results of a studio exchange program. Artists from The Hague could indicate that they considered it important for their artistic development to live and work abroad for a period of time.

Tanja Smit (1961) had access to a studio in Barcelona for a year (April 1994 – March 1995). She chose this city because of its highly baroque and varied architecture. The feeling of being a stranger and the distance from the familiar environment had a fruitful effect on her works on paper.

Mark de Weijer (1963) spent the summer of 1994 in Iceland, conducting research into the landscape and the way in which the local people experience their natural surroundings. This resulted in a series of paintings of favorite places as described by a number of Icelandic residents, exhibited alongside transcribed conversations about these locations.

Christophe Dumont (1964) came from Strasbourg to The Hague at the end of September 1994, fascinated by the flat Dutch polder landscape. The long lines of water in ditches, canals, and rivers, and the entirely horizontal structure of the landscape, closely matched the dynamic compositions he seeks to achieve in his work.