Le balcon de Genève – en hiver 1

A few months ago I moved from Maputo to Geneva, ideally located in a beautiful environment. It is relatively close to The Hague, so that I can also be there regularly. My work has been quiet for a while, but I will now start painting again. It is only a 15 minute walk from my apartment in Carouge that I look at the Salève, a kind of table mountain that has the nickname the Balcony of Geneva. Indeed, from the top you have a nice view of the city and the lake.

I start with sketching on the iPad in black and white. I am helped by the winter conditions. The mountain wall is powdered with snow, there are many contrasts and surprising forms.

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Exhibition AGA LAB 60 years

While moving from Maputo to Geneva these months, I participate in the anniversary exhibition of AGA LAB, the former Amsterdam Graphic Studio, where I printed many lithographs from 1983 to 1990. Now my iPad sketches are printed there in the highest quality and exactly as I want it. Nearly 100 artists participate. I show a print of one of the iPad sketches from my paradise, from the African Kikuyu grass. Tonight is the opening.

Invitation:
Exhibition AGA LAB 60 years.
14 September – 12 October 2018

OPENING: Friday 14 september 5 – 8 P.M.
(Opening: 5.30 P.M.)

Address:
BOUWput Galerie
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74, Amsterdam

AGA LAB Personal Invite Prints 60 Years

Silence

Illustration from the book ‘Een brug van fluweel (A velvet bridge)’

Exhibition ‘Almas Cruzados’

Tomorrow May 31 the exhibition ‘Almas Cruzados’ by Carlos Simões Ferreira and me in Galeria Kulungwana, Maputo opens until 29 June. Together in his open-air studio a few kilometers outside of Maputo we worked on four paintings as two souls from a different world. These works are on show at the exhibitions. Furthermore, the exhibition consists of new work that we have made individually.
I spent a lot of time in the Simões studio. Many people came along. I experienced the African way of life and I became part of the family. After 20 years in Africa, I have discovered that art is mainly about dreams and fantasy, the discovery of the inner world, and not, as in my own tradition, which is based on perception. It is a privilege that Simões helped me to understand this African perspective better.

Migração dos pastores, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm

Lobolo na aldeia, oil on canvas, 100 x 75 cm

Celebração, oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm

Época da abundância, oil on canvas, 75 x 100 cm

The seasons

Illustration from the book ‘Een brug van fluweel (A velvet bridge)’.

Beginning and end

Illustration from the book ‘Een brug van fluweel (A velvet bridge)’.

Between Easter and Pentecost

Illustration from the book ‘Een brug van fluweel (A velvet bridge)’.