Kars Persoon, The silent revolution/ 2025
Gum Arabic, pigment, crayon aquarelle on stone paper 72 x 51 cm
Kars Persoon - Accomplice Of The Unfinished
Work on paper and one sculpture
Extended to 28 March
Kars Persoon - Accomplice Of The Unfinished
Work on paper and one sculpture
21 February - 28 March
The Suzanne Biederberg Gallery is delighted to invite you to our second exhibition of Kars Persoon’s most recent work.
In ACCOMPLICE OF THE UNFINISHED, Persoon confronts the dizzying array of possibilities on a blank sheet of paper—the white, its potential, all that can appear, the open, it exists for the humanised fire of performance. And what then unfolds is constantly underway and unfinished.
In his long and esteemed career as an artist and teacher, Persoon (Eindhoven, 1954) has, beside his knowledgeable and informed interests in literature, music, poetry, philosophy and history, produced a huge body of experimental artwork.
Of his recent oeuvre, Persoon notes that, since 2025, form and content have come very close together. Using gum arabic with pigments, crayon and watercolour, he now works on stone paper, which allows him to work more precisely and revealing every trace of the action much more directly. Stone paper is very like marble, in that it has much more clarity, and its characteristic smoothness enhances his hand’s freedom, enabling him to better choreograph the figures. Persoon has also experienced a much greater intertwining of the themes and the characteristic appearance of the fluid and the solid.
The themes that come into focus in the works we are exhibiting are: the figure as individual (with its question of consciousness and self-awareness), the figure in encounters within a group, and its awareness of both; the figure in its connection with the Earth as a living organism (Bruno Latour); the process of BECOMING an image, and of the emerging image orienting itself toward a subsequent image. From these themes arise the title of this exhibition: ACCOMPLICE OF THE UNFINISHED. Regarding the role of the show’s sculpture, Persoon found the statement in Plato’s “Timaeus” most resonant: “What is the ever-existent that has no origin, and what is the ever-originating that never exists?” The sculpture represents BEING, while the works on paper represent BECOMING.
For more information or press material, please contact the gallery.
In ACCOMPLICE OF THE UNFINISHED, Persoon confronts the dizzying array of possibilities on a blank sheet of paper—the white, its potential, all that can appear, the open, it exists for the humanised fire of performance. And what then unfolds is constantly underway and unfinished.
In his long and esteemed career as an artist and teacher, Persoon (Eindhoven, 1954) has, beside his knowledgeable and informed interests in literature, music, poetry, philosophy and history, produced a huge body of experimental artwork.
Of his recent oeuvre, Persoon notes that, since 2025, form and content have come very close together. Using gum arabic with pigments, crayon and watercolour, he now works on stone paper, which allows him to work more precisely and revealing every trace of the action much more directly. Stone paper is very like marble, in that it has much more clarity, and its characteristic smoothness enhances his hand’s freedom, enabling him to better choreograph the figures. Persoon has also experienced a much greater intertwining of the themes and the characteristic appearance of the fluid and the solid.
The themes that come into focus in the works we are exhibiting are: the figure as individual (with its question of consciousness and self-awareness), the figure in encounters within a group, and its awareness of both; the figure in its connection with the Earth as a living organism (Bruno Latour); the process of BECOMING an image, and of the emerging image orienting itself toward a subsequent image. From these themes arise the title of this exhibition: ACCOMPLICE OF THE UNFINISHED. Regarding the role of the show’s sculpture, Persoon found the statement in Plato’s “Timaeus” most resonant: “What is the ever-existent that has no origin, and what is the ever-originating that never exists?” The sculpture represents BEING, while the works on paper represent BECOMING.
For more information or press material, please contact the gallery.