Michel Hoogervorst - Etching, untitled

Beautiful black and white etching by Michel Hoogervorst.

Michel Hoogervorst 1961
How can something be right and wrong at the same time? This question also seems to apply to the work of Michel Hoogervorst. It is organized and organic; planned and plant-based; tight and loose; stationary and mobile; airy and strict; drawing and drawing. Is it about life and death? Is it about survival? What do the flowers that appear so often in his work mean? Is the flower on this canvas cut off with the knife of the other canvas?

A relationship with Sassenheim in the bulb region is obvious, it is the place where Hoogervorst was born and raised. The Sikkens-Lakfabriek is also located here. Flowers and paint, how close do you want it to be.

Hoogervorst does not paint bulb fields or flower arrangements, but single flowers. The bulb from which the flower emerged, the knife with which it was cut and the brush with which it was painted are also among the signs of his visual language.
The flowers are monochrome, mostly black, the colours they had are in the background, which sometimes also becomes the foreground. The lively play of lines contrasts with the organic floral motifs, and this overlying geometry sometimes also gives new life: from the horizontal and vertical lines, which are painted over a floral motif, sometimes a bud, leaf or brush grows again. In this way, life is passed on, it continues in the next layer.