From July 9 to August 25, 2024, the lunchroom of Museum Het Schip will feature the work of artist Vincent van Oss.
Amsterdam School Re-imagined
The Amsterdam School, with its Expressionist style with undulating movements, geometric patterns and reference to flora and fauna, has become an outsider in Dutch culture, according to Vincent van Oss:
"overtaken by De Stijl and New Objectivity, it long seemed a closed movement. No one is surprised when an artist takes De Stijl as a starting point for her or his work. Yet working from the Amsterdam School, in particular, can produce interesting work."
Vincent van Oss tries to involve this movement in contemporary art with his installations and photographs. He combines objects and ideas from that period with those of our time. New images and interpretations emerge. In this way he tries to breathe new life into the vibration that this movement created.
For example, the sculpture of the flute-playing Faun by Hildo Krop and Piet Kramer on the Niek Engelschman Bridge is translated into a pan-flute bridge with a pan-flute as its base. The open-mindedness of people in the face of Hildo Krop's life in which a girl stands between the legs of a horse is translated into a replica of a worker by Krop with a, comparatively speaking, gigantic rocking horse.
Vincent van Oss lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated from the St Joost Academy in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1984. His exhibits include the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 'Andy's 15 minutes of Fame' in 2007; 'Corona-Archives' at Nieuw Dakota in Amsterdam in 2020; and 'Doubt & Belonging' at Rozenstraat a rose, also in Amsterdam, in 2023.
All exhibited works can be purchased directly through the artist.
Contact:
Website: vincentvanoss.nl
Instagram: @vincentvanossart
