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Title: Delay
Year: 1995
Image dimensions: 16 cm x 16.5 cm
Circulation: 34/60
Signed: Yes, hand signed
Material: Etching on handmade paper
Framed: in passe-partout
Ko Oosterkerk (1928-2012) was born in Velsen. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Oosterkerk initially devoted himself to painting. From the early sixties he concentrated entirely on making graphics. Oosterkerk had important exhibitions in, among others, the Groninger Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
In 1980 Oosterkerk ended up in Kampen where he was appointed as a teacher at the Christian Academy for Visual Arts Education (CABK).
Oosterkerk's oeuvre is characterized by four themes: geometric/constructivist shapes, landscapes and birds, 'notebooks' and cabinets. For decades his work has been praised for the beautiful deep black shades that he manages to depict in his etchings. There is an enormous layering in black. That is why the title 'Blacker than black' was chosen for this exhibition. He achieved these beautiful blacks, alternating with gray tones, by working in the dry needle technique.
A number of graphic works by Oosterkerk have the psalms as their subject, etchings in which he also incorporated psalm texts. He loved the drama that psalm texts convey. Although Ko Oosterkerk came from an orthodox Protestant family, he did not consider himself a truly religious person.
Perhaps his own religiosity lay more in nature, fascinated as he was his whole life by the landscape and nature with its creative power. In a large part of Oosterkerk's graphic work, natural elements are present in an almost abstract way. Countless long walks on the beaches of Brittany, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and the Wadden Islands are his source of inspiration. What he saw and experienced he processed in his graphic work. He translated or distorted nature into an abstract representation with black and white areas, shades of gray, scratches and stripes.
While Oosterkerk's graphic work in the sixties was still very expressive, with lines shooting off in all directions, in the seventies his work became calmer, more tranquil. The work became lighter in colour and more geometric in shape. He also started using other colours than black and grey, although it did not become a colour mixture, he always limited himself to one basic colour. For example, the many etchings with birds that Oosterkerk made were often coloured red.
Ultimately, he returns to his expressive design from the 1960s.
In the last active years of his artistic life, Oosterkerk made a U-turn in terms of material. No more graphic work, but 'objects'. He called them cabinets and that is essentially what they are, but then artistically filled cabinets - although he himself called it 'filled with inferior junk' - that are not meant to be used, but to be looked at. Cabinets that in a completely different way than in his graphic work once again show that Ko Oosterkerk was a skilled artist.
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Condition
Condition
Very good
Shipment
Pick up
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Parcel post
Price
Up to 2 kg.
Within The Netherlands
€7.00
To Belgium
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To Germany
€15.00
Within EU
€17.50
Worldwide
€20.00
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