Han Schuil Solo | Centraal Museum | Oud Amelisweerd
08 August 2023From 2022 to 2026, the Centraal Museum is taking up residence at Oud Amelisweerd. From spring to autumn for the next five years, this beautiful historic country estate will form the backdrop for solo exhibitions by renowned Dutch contemporary artists. Han Schuil's work will be on display from the 1st of September until 12th of November 2023. Han Schuil (Voorschoten, 1958) has managed to build up a consistent and, above all, idiosyncratic oeuvre over the past forty years. Schuil always works in series in which a subject (or reason) results in a series of paintings. In these, the full spectrum of a colour palette is used to create powerful images, vibrating with energy and compositional expressiveness. The confrontation with Han Schuil's works provides a renewed acquaintance with a hijacked reality, provided you are able to look 'through' the painting. After all, the magnification of the symbols used or the cutting off of the original image pushes the reality into the background and makes the power of painting claim all the attention. Those who feast their eyes on the fabulous painting technique can almost discern the dozens of layers of thinly applied paint.