{"product_id":"17239-koen-van-den-broek","title":"Koen van den Broek","description":"\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eThe genuine, unique perspectives and range of perceptual possibilities in paintings by Koen van den Broek (*1973 in Bree, Belgium) are captivating. The artist roams the surfaces of the world with his eyes, finding visual inspiration at the peripheries of the city and in insignificant façades, empty highways, closed garages, lofty viaduct pillars, and desolate curbsides. Using his own photographic diaries of trips throughout America, Asia, and Europe as source material, van den Broek turns layered visual experience into compelling oil paintings on canvas. While the compositions are vaguely familiar, brushstroke and paint texture create, imagine, and invent new realities. This publication presents the conflation of two exemplary projects: monumentally paintings from the \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eInsomnia\u003c\/I\u003e cycle, painted in Antwerp, and a smaller, intimately nuanced series of \u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003eGreenhouse\u003c\/I\u003e paintings\u003cI style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"\u003e,\u003c\/I\u003e created by the artist during a residency in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Friedman Benda, \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"st1\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/\u003e\u003cst1:State w:st=\"on\"\u003e\u003cst1:place w:st=\"on\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/st1:place\u003e\u003c\/st1:State\u003e,\u0026nbsp;April 25–May 24,\u0026nbsp;2013 | And further venues\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874869735688,"sku":"9783775734783","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775734783_67743874-9ce1-41ec-9f4e-811712145296.jpg?v=1744107986","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17239-koen-van-den-broek","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}