Expectation Paintings
A name alone is not enough. Without context, it loses its anchorage and becomes an abstract sign - legible, but not tangible. In its repetitiveness and interchangeability, the name reveals a paradoxical emptiness: it seems to name something, but what it means remains undefined.what happens when a name - a supposedly identity-forming element - is detached from its social, biographical or historical function? The canvas becomes the projection surface of a reduced gesture: the act of naming without designation, a language without statement - in the end: abstract art.

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Niels ten Brink