hidden remains (drained), 2022 acrylic resin, cotton, wax, acrylic paint, polyester fabric, thread, clay residue |
hidden remains (incorporated), 2022 |
The ‘Hidden Remains’ are about the skin, and what lies beneath. The sculpted frames –each unique in its shape– can be considered the works’ bone structure. The skin –made of latex, finely woven fabric, or wax– is translucent and partly transparent, but reveals only so much. The ‘hidden remains’ leave us guessing, longing, yearning, the way we yearn to resolve the mysteries of life and death, the foundational emotive drive of religion and spirituality.
Spierenburg’s object-paintings make us deeply aware of our skin being the outer limit of our beings: the skin, the membrane, our largest organ. We can touch, feel, knead, press, stroke, and taste, but we cannot really become one with the object. Spierenburg’s expression of this existential tragedy contains great beauty.
-excerpt exhibition text CINNNAMON, written by Pieter Dobbelsteen
hidden remains (existenzangst), 2021
60x48,3x2,8 cm
acrylic resin, wax, pigment, acrylic paint, cotton, stone, plaster
hidden remains (the sound of impermanence), 2021
77x56,5x2 cm
pigmented acrylic resin, polyester, plaster, acrylis paint, thread, clay residue
hidden remains (unsettled), 2020
57x50,2x2 cm
pigmented acrylic resin, wax, cotton, paper, thread, ink, acrylic paint, clay residue
hidden remains (recollected), 2021
66x48x2,5 cm
acrylic resin, wax, pigment, cotton, stone, ceramics, acrylic paint, crayon, ink, thread
hidden remains (restored), 2021
pigmented acrylic resin, pigmented wax, cotton, clay, styrofoam, ink, pencil, clay residue
80,4x30,9x2 cm
hidden remains (cavity), 2020
46,5x47x1,5 cm
acrylic resin, polyester fabric, clay residue
hidden remains (fragment), 2020
47,6x69,5x2,7 cm
acrylic resin, cotton, latex rubber, acrylic paint
hidden remains (sinking), 2020
47,7x69,7 cm
pigmented acylic resin, wax, cotton, wool, fish leather, rubber, yarn, acylic paint, plasticine residue
hidden remains (curtain), 2020
76x48,5x2,7 cm
acrylic resin, cotton, acrylic paint, ink, velvet, wood, clay residue
hidden remains (core), 2020
70x38,5x2,5 cm
acrylic resin, cotton, wax, plaster, acrylic paint, plasticine residue
hidden remains (licking a line), 2020
pigmented acrylic resin, wax, cotton, dried avocado peel, dried grape stalk, styrofoam, charcoal, acrylic paint, leather
70,2x45x2,4 cm
hidden remains (the other), 2020
66x43,3x3,5 cm
acrylic resin, textile, leather, pigment, clay residue
hidden remains (momentum), 2020
52x54x2 cm
acrylic resin, cotton, acrylic paint, crayon, ink, silicone, pigment and plasticine residue