Description
Toon Laurense (1958) is a painter who honors the secret of paint. Every painting he makes offers a new insight into what the imagination is capable of with paint. He does this by diving into the paint and by embracing it; it is a direct interaction with the material: man and paint.
He uses his paintings to bridge the distance from the world and to indicate our place in the bigger picture. There are paintings that look like galaxies or like satellite images of metropolitan cities where the countless patches of color could be the flat roofs of buildings. Both the cosmic and architectural references are again negated by the more geological and earthly movements in his work, the streams of paint that solidify, the reliefs that ripple over the canvases, the wispy stripes that act as atmospheric indications, the mathematical disharmony of inimitable systems. He brings everything together into a painted unity of a controlled order that simultaneously presents itself as chaotic disorder.
The fundamentals of painting have here grown into a virtuosity that varies from festive fun to thoughtful seriousness, always experienced with utmost attention. They are paintings of an all-encompassing sensuality.
(excerpt from ‘The painting as an inner image’ by Alex de Vries)
Portrait: Ruud Balk
Below you will find a selection of the paintings by Toon Laurense in our collection. If you would like to receive more information about the artist and all works in our collection, please contact Pim Hoff.
Toon Laurense
‘Als klanken’
Oil on canvas, undated
30 x 40 cm
€ 1.700,00
Toon Laurense
‘Home is with me’
Oil on canvas, undated
100 x 150 cm
€ 6.250,00
Toon Laurense
‘Into it all’
Oil on canvas, undated
120 x 100 cm
€ 5.500,00
Toon Laurense
‘JP meets PM’
Oil on canvas, undated
150 x 100 cm
€ 6.250,00
Toon Laurense
‘Oh sweet nuthing’
Oil on canvas, undated
35 x 25 cm
€ 1.400,00
The work of Toon Laurense and Maartje Frenken can now be seen in the exhibition ‘WITH YOU‘ (31st of July until the 3rd of October 2021) in our gallery.
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