Siet Zuyderland - due to non-payment again - Sold

• Beautiful graphic work by Siet Zuyderland entitled "The Red Wall".
• Numbered: A(rtist) P(roof)
• Signed: in pencil
• In very good condition - fresh colours
• with personal dedication in pencil at bottom left

Siet Zuyderland was born on May 11, 1942, in Amsterdam, two years after the outbreak of World War II in the Netherlands. It seemed an impossible time, in the middle of the war. His father was working in Germany, along with an older brother and sister. His mother was on her own, and it wasn't until three years later that his father saw his youngest son for the first time.
Siet Zuyderland became known in the 1970s for his exhibitions—at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others—of prison paintings (1974) and his paintings of subway stations (1978). In the years that followed, he spent much time in New York (exhibitions at Rosa Esman Gallery in 1974, 1979, and 1982). There, he created a series of works about Coney Island and, together with J. Bernlef, visited the places where the painter Edward Hopper worked, for several publications accompanying the Hopper exhibition at the Stedelijk in 1981.
After 1980, Siet Zuyderland shifted his documentary-realistic approach. His last exhibition in Amsterdam (Museum Fodor, 1987) featured large brush drawings of locks and bridge structures. He himself says of these drawings: "Starting from a collage of loose steel structures and corner joints, I try to create an image in which the static architecture is challenged and you experience a sense of falling."
2003 This last remark is very applicable to his latest series of works. The spaces, which he also calls "the rooms," only have the notion of space itself. The work is in motion, and in many cases, there's a hole in the center. You're sucked into a hole, as it were, while it seems as if you're looking down into the space from above. Sometimes the image evokes a sense of a parachute jump. The works all feature a wide variety of gray tones, a result of the many layers of oil paint on paper.