Bert Loerakker’s paintings cannot be viewed in just one glance. First of all, because they consist of two parts, a left and a right panel, that are always, in spite of the division, inextricably joined together. Looking at his paintings and trying to understand them is a game, a memory in which both similarity as dissimilarity play a part. A game of combinations and extremes; from a casual expressionistic painter’s touch to rigid monochrome enamel panels. Two extremes creating a division that he quite succeeds in filling up.
Translation: Mirjam Hoekman
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