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For Micha\u00ebl de Kok (Hilvarenbeek, 1958), looking at and experiencing a landscape is a reason for painting. He depicts his memory of an experience.<\/p>\n
In his figurative work, the \u2018landscape image\u2019 is highly abstracted and forms the representation of a memory, composed in a studio using paint. These memories are not necessarily true-to-nature portrayals of reality, but rather landscape experiences that exist independent of topographically located situations.<\/p>\n
In more recent work, the memory of the \u2018landscape experience\u2019 has become even more abstract and is captured in dynamically painted areas of colour that depict the radiant or absorbing experience of light and colour as you would experience them walking through the landscape. They are expressions of colour that reflect upon memories and are inextricably linked with the personal perceptions of the artist.<\/p>\n
De Kok\u2019s work exists midway between reality and alienation \u2013 on the one hand unfathomable and extremely personal, on the other hand very concrete and recognisable to everyone.<\/p>\n