GERTI BIERENBROODSPOT

La artista

Opening Solo exhibition Gerti Bierenbroodspot April 3 2009.

Gerti Bierenbroodspot, May 1940, Amsterdam, Netherlands; painter.

Gerti Bierenbroodspot is a living legend in Holland and a “divine enigma” to art historians, archaeologists and art lovers. She has visited half of the world. Especially the old world, ancient civilizations which are her source of inspiration. She is fond of ancient cultures and civilizations, in particular Greece, the Island of Crete, Pompeii, Al Batra, Jordan, the old Near East, etc. The magnificence of old civilizations is brought to life on her canvases. Where does she find her models? Life is her model. History of human kind is her model because Bierenbroodspot constantly paints around archaeological sites, ruins and old cities .Bierenbroodspot, one of Holland’s best known present day painters, whose highly personal mixture of classical and modern art is praised by many European and American art lovers.

Her sculptures are stones invested with live.
She loves to work with alabaster; a soft, translucent stone with surprising veins of colour. Gerti produces her own paint of rich pigments; she is using a lot of bronze powders, lapis lazuli and gold dust in her unique way to give colour to her sculptures. She has a perfect feeling for architecture, light fall and colour……..

In a series of sculpted bodies, chunks of Egyptian alabaster looking like the broken fragment of ancient imagined statues are now thrown into the world with no choice.

Her amazing versatility makes it hard to put any label on Bierenbroodspot’s art. She gets the recipes of her paint out of Plinius, her feeling of light, like most of Holland’s painters, out of the overwhelming Dutch skies. She is an almost renaissancistic artist, who not only draws and paints, but sculpts and designs. Like the god Shiva, she creates to destruct. For beauty that flowers and ripens will inevitably grow old and wither in that vast labyrinth of experiences which normal denizens of this world call life, which physicists and gods call Time, and what Bierenbroodspot calls art. That might very well be the key to Bierenbroodspot’s work, the Majesty of Time and what happens when Time gets its grips on things..

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden is presenting till May 2009, new work by Gerti Bierenbroodspot in the exhibit ‘Beyond the Horizon”