Henk Pander
Henk Pander was born 1937 BirthHaarlem, Netherlands.
Lives and works in HomePortland, Oregon, USA.
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"My paintings reflect personal experience, giving form to events I have witnessed throughout my life, where individual experience meets historical time. In an attempt to make visual sense out of contemporary dilemma, I deal with issues such as the passage of time, entropy and loss, in the form of memories of war and childhood, portraits involving aging and personal history, vanitas still lifes, and technology versus the natural world…"
Like all great requiems, Henk Pander’s paintings reveal that the fragile beauty of life is most poignant in the context of devastation and death. His virtuosic compositions involve the grave sites of wrecked airplanes and ships, the ruins of the Twin Towers, bodies decayed and ravaged by age and disease, contemporary vanitas still lifes, dramatic narratives of war, and scattered letters of lovers long gone…
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Henk Pander is a brilliant painter who has played a critical role in Portland’s artistic community over a span of forty years…
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Documents of Contemporary Art. Utopias: Throughout its diverse manifestations, the utopian entails two related but contradictory elements: the aspiration to a better world, and the acknowledgment that its form may only ever live in our imaginations. Furthermore, we are as haunted by the failures of utopian enterprise as we are inspired by the desire to repair the failed and build the new... |
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South African Art Now. South African Art Now documents, through in-depth essays and stunning full-color photographs, the remarkable work of nearly one hundred South African artists working in every medium from painting, sculpture, and video to cutting-edge performance art. This lush volume includes the impressive work of art world stars such as William Kentridge and Marlene Dumas; newly prominent artists such as Berni Searle, Robin Rhode, and Mustafa Maluka; and exciting newcomers still unknown outside their own country, but clearly marked for success... |
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James Rosenquist. Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art. “Frank, funny, truthful, ironic and in every way an entertaining account of one major American artist’s involvement in an art movement that interests everyone–and, more than that, of his own character. Jim Rosenquist is a true American original and his book ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand the last half-century of his country’s visual culture, high, low, and in between.” –Robert Hughes, amazon |
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