Portrait

Since 2009 the central theme of Erik de Bree’s work has been the breaking down of imagery. Working in series allows him with every series to develop a new technique. These techniques, a great variety of material additional and removal processes, facilitate coincidence to interfere leaving a visual trace in the resulting artwork.

The starting point for the series entitled “wallpaper paintings”, was de Bree’s decision to swap oil color for wallpaper and canvas for wooden panels. Having done so, this opened up a new perspective on his practice as painter, trained at Gerrit Rietveld Academy. For the wallpaper paintings he puts the wallpaper layer by layer on the panel. During the creative process, however, single layers are ripped off again. Some artworks are further worked on using spray-paint, aryl or ink. The removal of the overlapping wallpaper layers leads to unpredicted, yet intended results as De Bree likes to think of the entire process as one of “creating a context in which unexpected things can happen”.

Vita

Currently lives and works in Haarlem, Netherlands.

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

 
AWARDS

 
COLLECTIONS

Caldic collectie, Wassenaar / NL // collectie Fentener van Vlissingen // MAL collection, Loppersum / NL // collectie Pieter en Marieke Sanders //
collectie F. Oomen // ING insurance / NL // Dela verzekeringen / NL // SBK amsterdam, Amsterdam / NL and several private Collections

PUBLICATION

Erik de Bree op Sao Miguel, uitgeverij Waanders (inspiratie reeks 2014)